Case 171: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis

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🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

On August 19 1988, two armed offenders entered a branch of the Deutsche Bank in Gladbeck, West Germany with the intention of holding it up. Hans-Jürgen Rösner and Dieter Degowski planned to steal a large sum of money, then make a quick getaway.

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0:00.0	Sometimes you just need to get away.
0:02.8	And for the Aglewall family, it was well over you.
0:05.5	They wanted to know exactly what they were getting,
0:08.0	like knowing their kids stay and eat a delicious breakfast for free!
0:11.6	Yes!
0:12.6	And no need to look heavy bags, with free parking at over 500 hotels.
0:17.4	Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip.
0:19.8	Premier in, rest easy.
0:21.9	Only available to book at premierin.com.
0:24.5	Season C's apply, of two kids stay and eat breakfast free with a full paying adult.
0:43.8	Our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents.
0:47.4	If you feel at any time you need support, please contact your local crisis centre.
0:51.9	For suggested phone numbers for confidential support, please see the show notes for this
0:55.6	episode on your app or on our website.
0:59.6	At 7.45 on the morning of Tuesday, August 16, 1988, 23-year-old Andrea Blackar was preparing
1:09.3	to start her day in the west of Germantown of Glattback.
1:14.0	She worked as a customer service representative at a branch of the Deutsche Bank, which was
1:18.6	housed in a rectangular two-story Brom brick building near the town centre.
1:24.7	Glattback sat in the western state of North Rhine Vest Fahlia and had become a popular
1:29.9	coal mining centre in the previous century.
1:33.5	By the mid-1960s, that industry was on the decline and the town had been battling high
1:39.3	unemployment levels ever since.
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