Fifty years ago, eleven Israeli athletes were killed at the Summer Olympics in Munich after being taken hostage by members of the militant Palestinian group Black September.
Armed police drop into position on a terrace directly above the apartments where between nine and 26 members of the Israeli Olympic team are being held hostage 9/5 by Arab "Black September" extremists. Photo: Getty Images
The massacre on 5 September 1972 is one of the darkest chapters in Olympic history.
All of the hostages died, either during the initial raid on their sleeping quarters, or else killed during a firefight with German police at a nearby airfield as the hostage-takers tried to spirit the survivors out of the country.
Among those with the clearest view of that day's opening events were New Zealand athletes housed 50 metres away.
Long-distance runner Rod Dixon spoke to Susie Ferguson.
