Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 24 April 1975

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Peterson blacked out from the fierce blow to her head and fell to the ground. Heirens tied her up, quickly left the penthouse and shut the door. Peterson awoke in her apartment to the sounds of Heirens banging on her door. She got up off the floor with her hands still bound and walked to the apartment door and opened it, letting Heirens in. Heirens once again entered the apartment, helping put a blanket around Peterson but not untying her, simply telling her to stay quiet. Heirens then left Peterson and told her he was going to get her some help.
(5 October 1945)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 24th of April 1975 49 years ago
die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe Kommando Holger Meins featuring several members of the Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv take 13 hostages with the goal of forcing the release of other RAF members from prison in Germany in West German Embassy, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. The Kommando consisted of six members: Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Siegfried Hausner, Hanna-Elise Krabbe, Bernhard Rössner, Lutz Taufer and Ulrich Wessel. Hostage military attaché Andreas Baron von Mirbach was marched out on to the landing and shot dead. Economic attaché Hillegaart was made to stand at a window, and was then shot three times. Minutes before Swedish police were to storm the building Ulrich Wessel dropped a grenade which killed him and detonated a TNT cache. The remaining hostages as well as the other RAF members all suffered severe burns. Siegfried Hausner was flown back to Stammheim Prison in West Germany where he died of his wounds on 5 May.