Word: mirbach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...