#TIL friends did not know about gladbeck hostage crisis (they are from Dresden)
Their Wiki(de) article rocks
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiselnahme_von_Gladbeck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladbeck_hostage_crisis
nytimes covered it
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/28/world/killings-in-german-hostage-incident-stir-dispute.html
The real WTF is: journos documented everything. Drove with the hostage takers, moved freely, stood in way of police, negotiated hostage releases. Post Mortem #Pressekodex got adjusted
Good pointer on why German media is sometimes different
Just because listening to #silkebischoff #18summers