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...facing a gun. Their access secured, five other terrorists, one a woman, entered the building. Armed with submachine guns, they raced to the top floors and barricaded themselves, along with twelve hostages, including Ambassador Dietrich Stoecker, 59, and his military attaché, Lieut. Colonel Andreas Baron von Mirbach...
...floors quickly escaped, some on fire ladders. Using a house phone, the terrorists then ordered Swedish police to leave the lower floors of the building, and threatened to shoot a hostage unless they obeyed. The police stalled, hoping to establish personal contact-and the terrorists shot Lieut. Colonel von Mirbach fatally...
...enraged West German sensibilities for three years, and government leaders decided that the nation had had enough. They reasoned that, in contrast to the Lorenz case, the whereabouts of both the terrorists and their hostages in the present incident were known. And they were angered by the news that Mirbach had been shot in Stockholm...
Reds assassinated Count von Mirbach, first German Ambassador to Soviet Russia, in 1918. Some Nazi fanatic may well take offense at the Jew whom Joseph Stalin is sending to Berlin this week-short, dark, wiry Comrade Jacques Suritz. In Afghanistan they remember Jacques Suritz well. He went out from Moscow to Kabul more than a decade ago. He greased the right palms so adroitly that the British Empire's influence in Afghanistan was threatened and ex-King Amanullah today is said to blame Jacques Suritz for having started the seven-year vortex of intrigue which finally sent His Majesty...
Died. Baron von Mirbach, 81, Lord High Steward of the Hohenzollern court under Wilhelm II, Master of the Household to the late Kaiserin; in Potsdam. His name was connected with the sensational scandals that convulsed Germany in the early part of the century over the bestowals of decorations in return for contributions to the Kaiserin's Church funds...