Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After a 24 hour standoff at a bank robbery, two armed men and their two hostages flee through West Germany. Later, they hold up a city bus and take more hostages. While the police stay back, the criminals instead open a dialogue with the press, calmly taking questions while brandishing weapons. With reporters following the bus through the country, conducting interviews at every stop, the hostage takers are growing more anxious about the situation. With no clear-cut path for a peaceful conclusion, the nation remains glued to the television. Now on Netflix, the German-language documentary “Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis” relies exclusively on footage shot by news crews who captured the 54-hour ordeal. For English-speaking audiences unfamiliar with the 1988 event, its close-up, real-time chronicle of this rolling standoff builds both suspense and dread.

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0:00.0	To get the Crime Riders on after show right now, go to patreon.com slash partners in crime
0:06.0	media.
0:07.0	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Riders on.
0:23.5	Crime Riders on is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime, pop
0:28.0	culture, other podcasts.
0:30.2	And on this episode, a hostage crisis at a West German bank turns into must-see TV when
0:36.8	the armed criminals flee across the country ignoring the police, but talking to an exuberant
0:42.6	press corps.
0:44.0	We're discussing the Netflix documentary Gladbeck, the hostage crisis.
0:48.9	Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist and host of these
0:54.0	are their stories podcast, my husband Kevin Flynn, hello Kevin.
0:57.3	Good and talk Rebecca.
0:58.3	So Kevin, you are still in love with my life, by the way, listeners have been telling
1:01.7	me that they're worried.
1:02.7	I don't say that in every podcast.
1:04.5	Don't worry people.
1:06.0	I know.
1:07.0	We should just mention you are still recording separately from me up in your office because
1:12.1	as of this recording, you still have COVID and we are recording separately, right?
1:16.2	Yes, but I feel very good and I feel like that I'm probably 24 hours away from finally testing
1:22.2	negative and being able to move around the house again.
1:25.4	We haven't even had dinner together in so long.
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