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1972 olympic games of munich day 11 of what were supposed to be the happy games terror reaches the heart of europe the world witnesses hostage-taking by a terrorist group the rescue operation results a disaster eleven israelis are killed

survivors should live with this trauma and the olympic spirit has changed forever the olympic games symbolize friendship, peace, unity between the nations and all that jumped by the airs at least in my opinion the olympic games are politicized i survived munich 72 february 2012

the ancient olympic heroes of israel they embark on a trip are not many who recognize it today despite that the terrorist attacks have left deep scars on the soul from the country the olympic team returns to meet four decades after the tragedy of the eleventh day of the games of

munich during all these years hardly they have talked to each other about what happened but munich lingers in their hearts i do not know. it has been fantastic to see you again compare their current faces with their facial features of then and their heavier bodies now with the athletic version that i remember of them

you are henry you tell yourself old friend have you seen yourself in the mirror goal to henry james like these we have seen we've seen each other a couple of times i had forgotten that you were in our room gives nalã³n he was in my room i thought that it was in ours the meeting has filled a great void

emotional in 1972 the swimmer will have melamed was the main israeli olympic trick and i had competed in the games olympics from tokyo 64 and mexico 68 but due to discrepancies in the breast of the israeli olympic committee melame no he was part of the olympic team although found a way to go to munich in

quality of journalist and coach not officer of a swimmer that's how i got to the villa olympic was a kind of appendix i was not a swimmer i did not have a pass i had to engineer them to attend the competitions entered the pool of sneaky was sneaking in everywhere

in the end he caught trick and he did it very fine the olympic games are the dream of every athlete and the israelis had deposited many hopes in his olympic team i remember when the interviews for the israeli radio and television the journalists asked me what was

my goal to reach the final the semifinal to the quarterfinals i told them that i had gone to give best of myself i could not promise nothing was happy being there da nalã³n had been for ten years fencing champion in israel for him, fencing is a tradition and the olympic games a matter of

family?" my father's dream was to participate in olympic games and how he does not got i promised myself to participate in some games nothing saul nor a university professor 36 years old was one of the most athletes acquaintances of israel and one of the best

marchers of the world as a child he had survived holocaust and i felt i had a mission to fulfill in munich i knew what they had suffered in bergen-belsen knew that when they ayman he arrived in hungary his police stopped my grandparents and two cousins ​​of mine who they died murdered in auschwitz

i knew that i was a representative of israel and i wanted to prove that we were there the jews and the israelis we had gone to german soil full of pride i wanted to show that jews do not we were as we had described the nazi propaganda

we went to germany to show the germans that we keep alive the games mexico and tokyo were not important to me jewish athletes from israel came back to germany the two olympic shooters of the israeli team henry hershkowitz selig stoltz enjoy of the atmosphere that is breathed in munich

selig thinks that germany has become a normal country it was obvious that it was a country completely different there was nothing left from germany going from to they were olympic games plus munich in all its splendor the dance traditional bar to your pleasure represented for a worldwide audience 121 countries

7,134 athletes a unique show i remember we met in front of the stadium we were all perfectly aware that we were representing israel and that we should be in the light we were near the bridge waiting enter the stadium when we hear by the public address system is the turn of israel and i

i started shaking ag i started to tremble literally for me it was a pride to be the flag bearer of the israeli team in germany did it was a great honor when we enter the stadium we saw uaw that the stands were crowded the noise was deafening it was impressive.

or my god was something incredible was living my dream of participating in some olympics it was the first time after holocaust that the israelis we paraded in germany for me it was something awesome i remember that i parade with my coach andrã© pitcher and we were crying

both of us and praying for real twenty-seven years after the second world war a new one has emerged germany and the olympic games are the perfect occasion to leave behind the terrible burden of the third reich the games were organized in a way that nothing to remember the nazi games of berlin from 1936 you breathed a

international atmosphere there were people from all over the world i never i had met so many people from so different parts of the world the olympic village meeting center countries and cultures another opportunity to behave completely opposite to what the stage meant nazi

nobody thought about the risk of a terrorist attack friendship and fraternization instead of strong security measures in the villa olympic we talk constantly with syrian athletes with leonese athletes i met with the egyptians before may israel make peace with egypt we talk about sports

we do not talk about politics with anyone i remember something that i said then to my comrades i wish the olympic games were they will celebrate every year and not every four years it was supposed that the olympic family she should be open and friendly that's why the israeli team was staying in

a few simple apartments on the street connolly without protection or measures of safety naturally people became questions israel had been in for years of war with his neighbors terrorism was part of life everyday of the israelis inside and outside of your country but the authorities

israelis and germans decided that no there was no problem and everything would go dana london pitcher and i got to munich two weeks before the start of the games we came by train when we arrived at 3 in munich we went to see the street apartments with him and we stand in front of the building and

we were able to choose the entrance we wanted because all the apartments were empty i took my luggage i started to walk and i entered the apartment 2 without even thinking about it it was a fatal decision yehuda weinstein came with me and andress pitcher decided on the apartment 1

i proposed that we install all in the same apartment but he he told me not that we were scribes and the coach and that we should be separated by that more late when the delegation arrived israeli all the coaches went to the apartment one with andrã©s pitcher

the headquarters of the israeli team during the games five apartments contiguous with street views the number one is occupied by coaches and the judges the 2 the fencing teams shot and other athletes the 3 changed the edges and the fighters and 4 and 5 the remaining members of the delegation

israeli danny ayalon was worried i asked andy pitcher what i you say this where are the security guys not there is nobody watching the entrance, not you worry, dani told me they may have put someone watching on the roof and we can not see it from here

the happy games of munich during ten days everything went smoothly the atmosphere was wonderful the performance of athletes extraordinary the dream had come true games were perfectly organized everything worked perfectly only there was one thing that worried me was

that everything was open in the villa olympic people entered that did not have no relation to the games one of the many unexpected guests was a famous israeli actor one day he showed up at the villa the famous israeli actor and muel rowinsky and later on my classmates told me that robert

king had invited us to the theater to a representation of the violinist in the roof we were not going to see a work of theater to anyone and we're going to see one jewish work it was interesting to see the people's reaction to music jewish and they liked it a lot they treated us as guests of honor gave the best locations and during

the rest we went to the dressing rooms and we photographed with ismael robert king {0}iii.{/0} {1}â â â  {/1} {0}september 3, 2017{/0} {1} {/1} the israeli team has passed it on this was the last picture that were taken together we return to the little olympic village after eleven o'clock at night when

i reached the street connolly i found with andre pitcher at the entrance of my apartment had just come back from holland where he had spent a day with his wife and her baby we both went to my room and we were there chatting during a hour at midnight andrã©s pitcher he returned to the apartment they occupied

the coaches and judges the marcher saul dani had finished his tests on september 3 and he was enjoying his first free night in his room was the first night that i had free and i decided to dedicate organize newspapers spread next to the bed and i started to cut photos and articles

and at about two thirty three of the early morning i set to 2000 saul and abraham occupy the ground floor of apartment number 2 the henry selick shooters and the scribes give loney and judah beinstein are on the first floor at that of four and twenty four and a half or and two blows or detonations not very

violent i woke up at the same time that my roommate gutter other writer and i asked what could be that noise i thought the noises came from upper floor occupied by athletes uruguayan i imagined that they would be celebrating something but the uruguayan team

he is deeply asleep i woke up what seemed to be machine gun shots detonations and shouts voices and then - silence. at that time many things happened through my head but mainly i thought that that could not be what he thought was i tried to go back to sleep

abraham's fears turned out to be founded at four thirty of the tomorrow a group of armed palestinians entered the apartment one occupied by the coaches and the judges they immediately took six hostages and they forced the wrestling coach muse waimer who had been wounded in the attack that will guide them to the rest

of the israelis weaver skipped apartment number two and took them to 3 the ones wrestlers and weightlifters he probably thought that they would be able to offer more resistance but not they could do nothing against the kalashnikov of terrorists among athletes you will find that

savary that is captured the leader of the terrorists known as isa believes that there must be more israelis in the rest of the apartments were presented in the apartment and they kidnapped us then isa the leader of the palestinians he did not follow stairs down and we he asked where the rest of the israelis they ignored that all the

apartment block was busy by israel is isa forced me to leave my friends followed me there were seven of us against four terrorists but they they were armed and he took me to the entrance of the apartment number one up to the stairs of the apartment number one there the rest of us was waiting for us

the terrorists when we arrived they told us that we will go down to the garage we went down the stairs and arrived at the thank you. there we saw the terrorists hooded i do not know where i got the strength to dare to do something like that i do not know what prompted me to do a

movement that can certainly considered a recklessness but when i felt the cannon of the machine gun in the stomach and i saw that there was a door very close to where we were at terrorist i decided to take a chance apart from a blow the cannon of kalashnikov and i started running they were signing between the columns of

garage concrete i did not look back he shot me two or he can that other times but i do not think no time and i kept running the shots aimed at gatza bar and they woke up to selig stotz the shooter who they slept in apartment 2 i thought i was suffering a nightmare

today a loud crash did not know of where did it come from but i realized that i was something out of the ordinary i got scared and sat on the edge of the layer was going something but i did not know i went to the window i looked outside and there was no one shortly after a german policeman arrived

i just had a walkie talkie on the hand and you go i wonder what happens and i answered him and vice nor you not what he then i saw henry next to the curtain and i asked him what was going on he told me he had heard about shots that had added very close to there

i was sitting on the bed and as i already we did not see anything else i decided to go out and have a look like that i put on my tracksuit luckily for me i chose some singles without names or shield in the chest but it was written in name from israel in the back and i went to the calle

at that time the gunmen had 11 hostages in his power they were all on the first floor of apartment 1 the terrorists were nervous and they wanted to establish contact with the the police then the front door opened of apartment number 1 and it came out a

man a thin man dressed in a beige suit and a hat of straw approached nor did i wonder what made the man there those hours because i knew i did not live in the building and when i was about two meters away from me i wonder in german where the police were i told him i did not know i was in

foot with half body turned on address to our apartment and that posture allowed him to see henry in the window making me in gestures strangers was trying to tell me to leave that's why i got away from that guy but i did not understand him then i i looked better in that man but i did not see nothing threatening in him until i saw that

two hand grenades were hanging from belt is a terrorist attack i have to do something i told myself at that moment i realized that it was called israel written in the back the terrorist does not suspect anything but selig stotz is seriously worried

i told myself i had to wake up to everything the world had to go to the apartment number 3 where the fighters were and the weight lifters when he arrives the door was open and when i was about to enter i saw that there was blood on the ground the terrorists had already been there it reads that stoltz entered into our room and he told us that

there were terrorists in the building the palestinians captured some members tea we looked out the window and saw how they opened the apartment door number one and dragged to the street the corpse of munich waimer was riddled with bullets i looked out the window and diamon

invest in the ground with your head surrounded by a pool of blood i realized that his color was color of a dead man this is not a joke he told me to be it's about something very serious after the flight of gatza bari the trainer moshe wimmer was launched against terrorists

he was killed instantly by all the athletes that they had not been taken hostage terrorists were caught armed had become strong in the adjoining apartment you do not know how many they are or what they have done in the apartment you do not know what has happened to the occupants of apartment 3 you ignore that it has been

head of delegation when you ignore him all your fear is even more intense we had two options or stay in our room waiting for the arrival of the police or someone who could do something or get out of there we asked how we could help our partners held for then the police had already arrived

the terrorists claimed to have 26 hostages had already killed one of them and another was seriously injured the men in apartment 2 are they met in the room of the second floor writers from there they could see what was happening on the street i told selig stores or henry

herskovits you have a weapon and shoot him you do not know how many are you do not know how many israelis have captured is better than other people who come into action are arab studies: they may also try to come for we get out of here that they took

a decision the only possibility they had of escape was through the door rear we only had one option to leave running they were scared and rightly so maybe i was too young to understand the complexity or the consequences of the situation tells them

listen, i do not think we should stay here i do not know what you're thinking you but i get away from that abraham melamed manages to get to the police deployed in the area saul follows shortly after yehuda adam it reads and henry they do not know though their colleagues on the ground floor have got away and doubt we had

afraid that someone was betting on the balcony with a rifle i took a deep breath and ran out there was no no shot i passed one or two dividing walls and i did not it happened nothing had come my turrã³ when i was approaching the lawn i i stopped and turned around and then i saw a man with his face covered in

roof he was looking at me and me he but he did not make any movement so i turned around and ran towards the place where i expected the german police the police has cordoned off the street connolly isa the leader of the command demands the release of more than 200 prisoners from

the israeli and german prisons the selig stotz shooter still in the apartment is the last israeli that it is inside and then his opportunity presents itself and its leader he went from one place to another constantly without stop talking, load my gun and tell me now i could kill you

the rifle had no telescopic sight but i would not have needed it barely five or seven meters from me it would have sufficed with a shot could change the course of events from the selic window you can hear the terrorists negotiate with the authorities german and is convinced that

will reach a peaceful solution so do not shoot download the weapon he removed the jacket wrapped around the rifle and i hid it under the mattress selig is the last to escape 5 of september 1972, the eleventh day of the games the happy games have ended the olympic village has become war zone

from early in the morning a command of palestinian terrorists has taken ten israeli hostages one of which is seriously injured and already they have killed 18 have managed to escape they took us to the main office of the entrance of the village to practice an investigation and an investigation (in short)

nobody knew what was happening they just told us to sit down there nobody talked to us nobody he asked us what had happened i think they were trying to get to the idea of ​​what happened were kept expectant they did not try to free the hostages by the force because they did not want to undertake

an action of that nature in front of thousands of journalists and cameras television to the police did not want do anything that could remind the people the dark days of history german the days of the nazi period the german negotiators wanted accelerate the outcome and tried convince the terrorists to be

would surrender but the gunmen would they held firm and threatened with start killing the hostages the connolly street of the olympic village had become the center of the world attention there was no plan to try to liberate by force the hostages at that time the german authorities

they lacked an anti-terrorist unit specialized because the german government did not allow israel to participate in the rescue operation we are the best in that type of operations nobody has more experience than we think that's an insult they did not know how to deal with that

situation and they refused to ask for help when it was evident that there were many lives at stake other attacks had already been committed terrorists aircraft hijacking murders bombings in airports not it was an action out of context israel is behind every faithful to nivell ye wulff and the one of the magnet errors

of coz porcel on get you into you tube a signal to tim white and again to that lady inma at four o'clock in the afternoon of that day the competitions olympic games were officially suspended but life in other areas of the village olympic was following its course the villa i was still bursting with life everything was in order everything seemed

normal people played music he walked and laughed then i went to the street with all in and just before they started the street they were the police barriers from that point entries in another planeta. at five o'clock in the afternoon the terrorists they make it look out the window on

fencing coach andrã©s picha una proof that the hostages are well the kidnappers demand a plane with destination to cairo not only was my coach we were friends we were the same age 27 years and we practice fencing in the same club the vine for many years until

he decided he did not want to compete so he went to holland to study in a school of fencing coaches it was there where he met his wife here before munich it turned out pretty hard to take care of me training and taking care of your baby at the same time the girl had just been born two or three months before the games

in these moments the survivors they are in a secure apartment of a building of the olympic village from there you can follow the course of the game over i am on trial to cech was in caracas james when i had an idea approximate of what was happening thanks to the press and the news

the situation seemed to enter into a kind of tug-of-war sometimes it seemed to get worse and other improvements nobody knew what to expect see in off that go higher de facto board i do not walk the internet what bytes i gave and friars for the uefa while others are very useful in south beach teisa calculated that it was nine or ten

of the night when i heard that they were going to prepare a plane to open for get the terrorists out of the country and rival of you but you did not know where the helicopters had a point of landing and we were about 50 meters from helicopters i started screaming and crying like a crazy like crazy

that was the only time in which the germans could do something in which they could try to rescue the hostages before they went up to the helicop september 5, 1972 21 hours all negotiations have broken the only option that is shuffled now is a military operation

arrive the helicopters that will take the olympic village to the terrorists and his nine surviving hostages the two helicopters that were carrying our friends took off and they disappeared in the middle of a noise deafening the worst that could happen was happening as soon as the

helicopters i felt very pessimistic i had the feeling that we would return to see the living room charms it did not matter what we said did not matter what we avoided we felt impotent nobody heard us nobody lent us attention to a european in those moments selig stork was returning to

colon street and the police protected the apartments veracity with return to our apartments when no longer there was no irradiation there will be and sama love so i saw many people athletes god, the whole apple was cordoned off mahamat left i told a police that i was one of the athletes israelis and asked me if i could

identify a corpse then he took me to the apartment number one or more we went up and saw a corpse on the ground covered with a blanket right at the entrance door like kufa motels removed the blanket but i could not identify the corpse was so pale and verlegh hungry

it was the corpse of joseph roman it bled to death in front of their comrades began to circulate rumors about the result of the operation {0}rescue.{/0} {1} {/1} molina shape and me softly with me and smiling tourists have put their the joy overflowed we started to hug us to scream to scream to lift

the fists to the sky and center of said we feel great joy those exceeded all my expectations but no return of the news not they had nothing new to say about that at three in the morning the terrible truth and the yuma had died all israelis aerodrome de fuste pnv the pad

scenario of the last battle the rescue operation has been a complete failure the nine israeli hostages have been murdered a german police officer and three terrorists have died too in the shooting three others have been arrested it was a very hard blow because in that

group we all had someone to whom we were very close the beginning of that year had been fantastic for me i was in very good shape i knew i was going to respond very well in the competition was very motivated and not i had felt better in my life so much

physically as emotionally i received the first blow when i did not be part of the israeli team is not so i had to settle for the just the jar of honey on the outside and accept being in the olympic village as a simple appendix of the israeli team i did not feel good but that was with difference the hardest hit

the hardest september 6, 1972 the street connolly gave one after the tragedy of the hostages just a few meters separate life from the death the names of all the members of the israeli team continues written in the doors by that flash they send me to break

side unaf joan court on the same day held a memorial service in the olympic stadium in memory of the killed athletes who attended 80 thousand people most countries arabs did not participate in the ceremony neither the east german team after the memorial ceremony was a

very emotional ceremony for me you mae ree made me be fully aware of that my classmates were no longer with us and it was not just that had disappeared you knew that could have touched you or anyone of the other survivors ceremony it made me aware that we were very few who were more alive

and how life can end in a so unexpected and violent we were alive but there was many families who had lost their beloved we do not want more tohã¡ there is more there is no more before it affairs take it away plin york

it seemed absurd to me to say that the games had to continue and continued yes but they had already assigned their spirit of the arizona law expressed the definitive or the face of the israelis survivors wait on the plane that will take home your olympic dream has finished butt has to return for the last time to apartment number

one to collect the belongings of andrã© pixar i went with angie speech that had come expressly from holland just enter the building volpi a go out and i said ah nq and that was better that i had not told him that i he would wait low and he would have given us da nalã³n takes some pictures is

a horrible scenario i, roman, was four hours sacrament was and people were walking on his blood all the belongings of the athletes were lying on the ground the athletes who were parents like josie roman had bought a lot of gifts to take home from games children's toys and dolls and all

toys were stained with blood once more blood had been spilled jewish in germany munich airport it's luggage belongs to athletes murdered the israeli team leaves munich sooner than planned we return to israel with the blackouts and one of the saddest moments

it was when they opened the doors of plane and we saw people who were us waiting national mourning was declared in israel the whole country was traumatized if our families were waiting for us foot of the skin i told my wife you see it i'm here without a scratch

i am alive i have become whole myself uruguay there is field because i am alive pete dye and my friends have returned in coffins the survivors accompany the dead to me the mole rafa my prayer for the athletes murdered god full of mercy

that you dwell in proportional heights an eternal rest in the rooms of the divine presence jalali me up 2 and javier rey my cats court of min e february, 2017 the survivors return to munich once again offers in its respect to

his companions today there is a commemorative plaque in front of apartment 1 few people come to see her now this is a street inhabited by normal families memories gather in the mind of the former athletes none will ever know what happened in

munich after munich i became a man constantly worried worried about the future a man who saw everything black for i no longer had the pink color and today i continue just as soon as we meet in the war airport even before get on the plane

we started talking about what happened in munich butt we try to recover the pieces that we they were missing to rebuild that tragedy some pieces that have been lost for 40 years that is very important for us has it's been fantastic to see you again 40

years later we have completed the circle i can almost say that i have the feeling of being in the a new opportunity to step back the olympic stadium just like 40 years ago when you are young you are not aware of that life is so fragile you're not aware that the end can be

abrupt and arrive unannounced when you live an experience like the one we live in munich if you are aware of it and when you you realize that you have matured this has been something special i assure you, i am touched even while i'm talking to you it is very important that young people

everyone knows the truth of what happened and that everything never ever forget

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