Round 7: Tossup 17

Two student activists in this city were executed by guillotine after being caught distributing leaflets by a janitor. (10[1])The 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 United (10[1])players. (10[1])Georg Elser carried (10[1])out a failed (10[1])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 and Sophie Scholl were leaders (-5[1])of (10[1])the White Rose anti-war movement in this city. Edvard Beneš resigned in protest of an act of appeasement issued in this city, (10[1])where the Beer Hall Putsch (10[1])had failed. For 10 points, name this Bavarian city, the site of an agreement that ceded the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. ■END■

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