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#320 | The Florida & Munich Hostage Disasters

English Learning for Curious Minds

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The Munich Hostage Crisis

The 1972 hostage crisis at the Munich Olympic Games in West Germany was played out on live TV. The attack was organised by Black September, an anti-Israeli terrorist organisation fighting for the cause of Palestinian liberation. Unlike the Florida hijacking, the motives of the perpetrators were political and their demands were clear and rigid. German authorities did not have a systemic set of procedures for handling hostage crises at the time.

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