German and Israeli fighter jets flew in outdoor training at the site of the 1972 attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics on Tuesday in their first joint training in Germany.
As a component of their “Blue Wings 2020” maneuvers, German and Israeli pilots over flew over the Fuerstenfeldbruck army airfield near Munich to commemorate the attack that killed 11 Israelis, a German policeman and five armed Palestinians.
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An airfield shooting occurred after Palestinians from the Black September organization took members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage in the ill-insured athlete village on September 5, 1972. Later Tuesday, the planes will fly over the Dachau concentration site. where some 200,000 people, many of them Jewish, were imprisoned and 41,500 killed under Adolf Hitler’s Nazis. Created in 1933, it intended to be a style for other concentration camps.
German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (R) and Jeremy Issacharoff, Israel’s Ambassador to Germany (L), march in combination after a rite of placing a crown at the Dachau concentration camp near Munich on August 18, 2020, an army exercise. ( AFP)