During the shootout Grams killed officer Michael Oskar 'Shorty' Newrzella and suffered five gunshot wounds himself before falling down platform 3/4. During the operation his 36-year-old girlfriend and RAF member Birgit Hogefeld was arrested. Shortly after the operation there were allegations that Grams had not shot himself but was executed with a shot in the head from close range by a GSG 9 officer but they were upheld by five different courts. (27 June 1993)
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Monday 22nd of August 1983 (-) — Furniture designer, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament sympathiser and art vandal James Gore-Graham dies from suffering 90% burns. The day before Gore-Graham was caught running in flames having set fire to David Mach's 'Polaris' sculpture that was made of about 6.000 car tyres outside the Royal Festival Hall.