Inside GSG 9 (Germany's Tier 1 Counter Terrorist Unit) | Martin Herzog | Ep. 383
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🗓️ 29 November 2025
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00:00 – Start
01:52 – Munich ’72 Failure
06:43 – Birth of GSG-9
14:52 – Ulrich Wegener & Early Leadership
24:47 – Building a Unit From Scratch
39:04 – Rise of RAF Terrorism
56:22 – The German Autumn Begins
1:01:59 – Lufthansa Hijacking Begins
1:14:14 – Murder of Captain Schumann
1:28:01 – Mogadishu Assault Planning
1:32:57 – The 8-Minute Raid
1:43:22 – Aftermath & GSG-9 Legacy
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| 0:30.1 | The Team House with your host, Jack Murphy and David Park. |
| 0:42.2 | Hey, folks, welcome to episode 383 of the Team House. |
| 0:46.6 | I'm Jack Murphy, here with today's guest, Martin Herzog. |
| 0:51.0 | He is the author of GSG9 from Munich to Mangadishu, the birth of Germans' counterterrorism |
| 0:57.5 | force. Martin is a author, journalist, academic. I read this book just this week. I hope you guys |
| 1:05.2 | will go and pick it up. I thought initially, as I was telling Martin before we started the show, |
| 1:10.5 | I thought I had read |
| 1:11.5 | all about this subject already, but when I picked up this book and started reading through it, |
| 1:15.9 | I realized there's a lot I didn't know. And so we're going to talk about the Munich Massacre, |
| 1:20.5 | the origin of GSG9, how that came about. And about, I guess it really is the very first successful aircraft takedown and is it the first |
| 1:32.2 | one that that was ever done successfully in Mangadishu? |
| 1:37.2 | Hi Jack, yeah, thanks for having me on the show and yes, I think it is actually the first takedown. And to this day, I think arguably |
| 1:49.5 | the most complex that ever happened. So, yeah, it was a first for everybody involved, I guess. |
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