[Clusterfucker]

Originally Posted by kilyurselph ↗

This is a great post Cluster! You Sir, get one big and 2 from me for this one friend! I've been looking for photos of this for the longest time but I could never find them. I hate to sound like a spoiled kid who finally gets what he wants only to turn around and make further demands, but, do you happen to know who is who within the photos? Like as far as which victim is which and which are actually photos of the terrorist, or any other relevant information like that?

I figured out the first one. I made a mirror image of one of the pics and now these two pics match better. I also assume that Weinberg was shot in the hallway: "As the athletes were being led back to the coaches' apartment, Weinberg attacked the terrorists, which allowed wrestler Gad Tsobari to escape but resulted in Weinberg's death by gunfire." So this must be Yossef Romano because only two of them were killed inside and they also threw Moshe Weinberg's body out into the street. "The terrorists fatally shot Weinberg with machine-guns, then threw his body out into the street in order to demonstrate their resolve." So he might be in one of the other pics.

After seizing the coaches in the first apartment and wounding wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg in the face, the terrorists forced Weinberg to lead them to other potential hostages in another apartment. There, they seized six wrestlers and weightlifters, including Romano. As the athletes were being led back to the coaches' apartment, Weinberg attacked the terrorists, which allowed wrestler Gad Tsobari to escape but resulted in Weinberg's death by gunfire. Once inside the apartment, Romano attacked the intruders, slashing terrorist Afif Ahmed Hamid in the face with a paring knife and grabbing his AK-47 away from him before being shot to death by another terrorist. Romano's bloodied corpse was left at the feet of his teammates all day as a warning. The other nine Israeli athletes were killed during a bungled German rescue attempt later that night.

[Clusterfucker]

The two West German border police helicopters that carried armed terrorists and their nine Israeli Olympian hostages, stand at Fuerstenfeldbruck air force base twenty miles west of Munich, Germany, on Sept. 7, 1972. The helicopter in foreground is a burned out shell as a result of a hand grenade explosion set off by one of the terrorists apparently committing suicide rather than risking capture in the evening of Sept. 5.

So I assume that in last one of these pics is that terrorist who killed himself.

[Bruiseviolet]

And the IOC refused to allow a minute's silence for them at the London games

[Lion-hearted Girl]

Great thread and pics!

[musicman]

Horrible crime , great thread

[Jeffinny]

Thank you!

[moloch]

So is this NY Times quote referring to the 7th photo? "Mr. Romano, a champion weight lifter, was shot when he tried to overpower the terrorists early in the attack. He was then left to die in front of the other hostages and castrated."

New York Times "Long-Hidden Details Reveal Cruelty of 1972 Munich Attackers"

[mmeroyale]

oh that's awesome! i was wondering if the pics would stay hidden after the two widows tha got them said they intended to keep private! great finding!

[mmeroyale]

Originally Posted by moloch ↗

So is this NY Times quote referring to the 7th photo? "Mr. Romano, a champion weight lifter, was shot when he tried to overpower the terrorists early in the attack. He was then left to die in front of the other hostages and castrated."

New York Times "Long-Hidden Details Reveal Cruelty of 1972 Munich Attackers"

i think so yep
at least he's the only one mentioned as having been castrated so I'm assuming the same here

[pubate]

I have read that the weightlifter was trying desperately to fight with bare hands but he was killed and his penis had been cut by the attackers afterward.