Munich 1972: The Secret Behind the Olympic Attacks

The assassination of Israeli athletes during the Olympic Games in Munich in September 1972 has inspired various films and continues to do so. All are based upon the outstanding investigation results of filmmaker Wilfried Huismann. He was the first to find the only surviving assassin. Palestinian Jamal Chashi hiding out of fear of Mossad’s revenge, and make him disclose his secerts in front of a camera.

Prior to this, it has long been unclear why the siege became a massacre, in which all eleven hostages, one police officer and five of the assassins died. During his investigations in Israel and Germany, Huismann first encountered a defensive wall of silence before finally finding witnesses who wanted to speak: Muki Betser, Commandant of the Israeli Special Unit, Dr. Georg Wolf, the officer-in-charge of the police at the time and a confidante of Arafat who explains the latter’s role in the attack.

Huismnn’s film reveals that the hostages could have been saved but the West German Government, under Willy Brandt, bowed to Israeli pressure ad decided against the diplomatic solution that had already been worked out. So the hostages were sacrificed for a political agenda.



50 mins

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