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Marking the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre

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September 5, 2017

At dawn on September 5, 1972, Palestinian militants took 11 Israeli athletes hostage, killing two of them. The other athletes and a policeman died in a failed rescue attempt by German police. DW talks to the widows of two of the athletes.

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