One Day in September Page #8

When I was a kid,

my father used to say...

"Our greatest hopes and our

worst fears are seldom realized. "

Our worst fears

have been realized tonight.

They have now said

that there were 11 hostages.

Two were killed in their rooms...

yesterday morning.

Nine were killed

at the airport tonight.

They're all gone.

That afternoon,

the Games continued.

The surviving members

of the Israeli team...

flew home with their dead.

The bodies of the five

dead Palestinians...

were handed over to Libya,

where they received a hero's funeral.

Mohammed Safady, Aged 19

The three surviving terrorists

were never to stand trial.

Adnan Al Gashey, Aged 27

Jamal Al Gashey, Aged 18

Seven weeks later,

a Lufthansa jet...

en route from Beirut to Frankfurt

was hijacked.

The hijackers demanded the release

of the three Munich terrorists.

Acting with indecent haste and without

consulting the Israeli government...

the Germans

handed over the three prisoners.

The circumstances

surrounding the hijacking...

have long been thought suspicious.

Why were only 12 passengers

on board such a large plane?

Why no women or children?

Why such haste in agreeing

to the hijackers' demands?

For the first time, one of

the Palestinians involved...

has revealed

that the entire affair was a setup...

organized by the German government

in collusion with the terrorists.

The Germans thought

that in this way...

they would prevent future

terror attacks on their country...

and dispose the embarrassing evidence

of their failure that day in September.

I think-

I think it's probably true, yes.

At this time,

the mentality was so, you know.

Really.

Hans Jochen Vogel

Mayor of Munich 1960-1972

On such questions, Willy Brandt,

as I remember very well...

always made this gesture.

I can't say and do more.

Terrorists arrive in Libya

Did you shoot

any of the Israeli hostages?

It's not important to say

if I killed Israeli or not.

What do you think you achieved?

One would have-

We have made our voice heard...

by the world-

Are those your words?

- Of course.

- The same thing.

They have made their voice heard

by the universe or the world...

who has not been hearing before.

I'm proud of what I did at Munich...

because it helped

the Palestinian cause enormously.

Before Munich the world had no idea

about our struggle...

but on that day the name of" Palestine"

was repeated all over the world.

It was only a year and three months

that I was married to Andre Spitzer.

But I remember that year

as the most beautiful...

and most wonderful year of my life.

This is the grave

of Amitzur Shapiro.

He was the athletics coach.

He had four little children,

one my age.

And here is Kehat Shorr.

He was the shooting coach.

Eliezer Halfin was a wrestler...

and so was Mark Slavin,

who I think was only 18 years old.

And here's my father's grave.

Anouk Spitzer

And it says on it his name: Andre Spitzer.

It says, "Son of Tibor,

fencing coach...

murdered by- killed by murderers...

in the Olympic Games in Munich...

as a representative

of the Israeli sport. "

Then it says his date of birth

and the date that he was murdered.

And I always bring him sunflowers

because that's his favorite flower.

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