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Picture dated 06 September 1972 of then IOC president Avery Brundage (at rostrum) speaking his words "The Games must go on" during the commemoration ceremony for the victims of a hostage-taking of Israeli athletes during the Munich 1972 Olympic Games in the Olympic stadium. Sitting right of Brundage is German President Gustav Heinemann (2nd R) and German NOC chairman Willi Daume (R). Palestinian terrorists of the "Black September" group had stormed the Israeli athletes quarters, killed two and took nine other members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage the previous days. A freeing action of the German police forces on the Fuerstenfeldbruck airport near Munich had failed overnight 06 September 1972, leaving all hostages, five of the Palestinian kidnappers and a German policeman dead. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO/AFP/Str) === ===