PoliticsMarking the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre03:18This browser does not support the video element.Politics09/05/2017September 5, 2017At 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.Copy linkAdvertisement