The Gladbeck hostage drama

ARCHIVE - Dieter Degowski during the inspection in the hijacked bus on 17.08.1988 in Bremen. Hans-Jurgen Rosner and Dieter Degowski had on 16.8. in Gladbeck-Rentfort robbed a bank and taken two hostages. After a spectacular chase involving several press representatives, Bremen, where the gangsters seized a regular bus, the Netherlands and Koln, the police stopped the hostage-takers with gun violence on the highway to Frankfurt am Main. Rosner shot a hostage. Photo: Thomas Wattenberg / dpa (dpa: theme package for the 25th anniversary of the Gladbeck hostage drama) +++ (c) dpa - Bildfunk +++ | usage worldwide