Round 10: Tossup 17

Two student activists in this city were executed by guillotine after being caught distributing leaflets by a janitor. (-5[1])The (10[1])Ceaușescu regime hired Carlos the Jackal to bomb the Radio Free Europe office in this city. A 1958 plane crash in this city killed eight Manchester (10[1])United players. (10[2]-5[2])Georg Elser carried out (-5[1])a failed assassination attempt during the anniversary of an event that took place in this city, whose perpetrator had been sent to Landsberg Prison. The siblings Hans (10[1])and Sophie Scholl were leaders of the (10[1])White Rose anti-war movement in this city. Edvard Beneš resigned in protest of an act of appeasement (10[1])issued in this city, where the Beer Hall Putsch had failed. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Bavarian city, the site of an (10[1])agreement that ceded the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. ■END■ (10[3])

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