This AFP story posits that the West German authorities allowed this in order to prevent any further jihad attacks in West Germany. That’s possible. Cowardice and the desire to appease the “Palestinian” jihadis is pandemic today and was likely just as prevalent then as it is now.
“One of Munich terrorists lived in Berlin after 1972 attack – report,” AFP, September 18, 2022:
German police knew that one of the Palestinians who took Israeli athletes hostage during the 1972 Munich Olympics lived in Berlin for several years following the attack, the Suddeutsche Zeitung daily reported on Saturday.
On September 5, 1972, eight gunmen of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September stormed into the Israeli team’s flat at the Olympic village, shooting dead two and taking nine Israelis hostage. West German police responded with a bungled rescue operation in which all nine hostages were killed, along with five of the eight hostage-takers and a police officer.
The three remaining hostage-takers were captured, but released weeks later in an exchange when gunmen hijacked a Lufthansa plane on October 29, 1972, and demanded their release. Incensed by the chain of events, Israel subsequently launched the operation “Wrath of God” to hunt down the leaders of Black September.
On Saturday the German daily said that one of the three Palestinians who was released then lived for years in Berlin, citing a report in Munich police archives.
According to the report, the Munich police – in charge of investigating the attack – was told by the BKA federal police that the Palestinian in question was living in West Berlin and that he went to East Berlin almost daily, to work at the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Following the release of the three hostage-takers, a theory made the rounds that then West Germany had facilitated the release in order to avoid any more operations by Palestinian militants on its territory….
gravenimage says
One of the 1972 Munich Olympics jihad murderers lived in West Berlin after the massacre
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Utterly shameful–I just wish I could be shocked. The appeasement of Jihadists has been going on for a long time.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
After reading Jihad Watch for approximately five years, I am no longer shocked by the feature articles.
But I have never stopped caring.
Now, I feel anger at the countless “elites” who have allowed this jihad to happen – and feel profound sadness for the victims.
gravenimage says
Exactly the same with me, James. I still care–very deeply–but I am rarely shocked by any of this malignant insanity at this point. And this story shows how far back this dhmmitude–or worse–really goes.
Scotsman48 says
I worked in the Games in Munich in 1972, in fact I was in the building next door to the one on the photograph and we were evacuated in the middle of the night and I thought it must be a fire, only later did we find out when the Sun came up.
An Israeli girl I knew then was friends with one of the Israeli Athletes and she went to pieces, couldnt stop crying as she didnt know he was on the Team until she went to meet them when they first arrived, he was a childhood boyfriend.
I will never forgive those bastards and loved the movie Munich where they told the true story of how they hunted those bastards down. I would have gladly shot them.
Shalom.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that grim account, Scotsman. The Olympics *should* be about achievement and sportsmanship.
somehistory says
And things have come a long way since then….getting worse, more corrupt, evil and submissive to the terrorists and their many demonic demands.
They should all have paid for their crimes with their very lives instead of being allowed to live and work as if they had never done anything wrong. The german government did more than just “botch” a rescue.