Undesirable Homburg The former spa city policeman worked in Munich in 1972
Plenty of helpers had been required to carry about this gigantic function. Because the Bavarian police required colleagues from other federal states for this, volunteers have been also asked from the Hessian law enforcement departments. With three other police colleagues from Negative Homburg, I utilized for the “Olympic services” in Munich. A handful of weeks later, our queries were positively confirmed.
Two months right before the commence of the Olympic Video games, from 26 August to 11 September, we went to Munich by law enforcement bus. Our lodging have been mostly in private apartments. We have in no way fulfilled our guests. Our missions consisted generally in carrying out checks and observations in the city space or traveling to selected destinations.
My doing work several hours ended up divided into early and late shifts. We did not convey our services weapon with us.
In the purple VW Beetle
on patrol
My patrol colleague was a youthful officer from Essen. We took over a crimson VW Beetle with the radio identify “Bavaria 391” as a company vehicle. Munich was new territory for us. In the beginning, browsing the specified targets in the darkish was a dilemma. We experienced to use the city map to obtain our areas as there was no “Navigation” at the time.
I did not occur into get hold of with popular athletes or other celebrities. Mainly I only saw the opening ceremony and competitions on Tv. The video games, which had hitherto been cheerful, were really productive for Germany. Klaus Wolfermann had surprisingly won the javelin throw with a length of 90.48 meters and secured the gold medal with an benefit of two centimeters. The jubilation was virtually even extra frenzied the following day, when then 16-calendar year-aged Ulrike Meyfarth was the only one particular to defeat the height of 1.92 meters in the women’s high soar and earn gold.
But then, around 4:55 am the next evening, the unbelievable assassination endeavor occurred when Palestinian terrorists broke into the Olympic Village and took the Israeli group hostage. An Israeli crew member was killed. All those in cost had been not organized for this kind of a reprehensible act. I am knowledgeable that at a management assembly a few weeks previously, just one of the topics talked over was how to behave if the Olympic Hill – an insignificant hill on the Olympic web-site – was occupied by protesters. The matter of “murder” did not come up listed here.
The liberation action carried out the pursuing night time ended in a catastrophic way. 17 folks have been killed, all 11 Israeli hostages, five terrorists and a law enforcement officer. That night I worked the night time shift, which I used with quite a few colleagues primarily at the police station to be obtainable much more quickly in situation of need. We learned that the Bavarian police had occur out on a big-scale operation, devoid of even more facts. Superior information attained us via radio, which unfortunately has not been confirmed. All Israeli hostages have been initially rumored to have been released unharmed. Soon thereafter it was said that a police officer experienced died in the procedure. With this information and facts, I went to bed late in the day.
A several hours later on I located out what a terrible conclude the evening liberation motion in Fürstenfeldbruck had had. The Olympic celebration was then interrupted for a person working day, only to be ongoing the adhering to working day with the controversial phrase from then IOC president Avery Brundage: “The Online games need to carry on”.
In the remaining days of the Olympics there had been no particular events, except for athletics competitions.
