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Gladbeck Hostage Incident ‘Documentary’ on Netflix
Posted on 6/24/22 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 6/24/22 at 5:42 pm
Anyone seen this? Came out on Netflix a week or two ago.
Wow- it is a bizarre mind-blowing experience.
It’s like watching a movie- but it’s 100% real live stuff.
It’s not a ‘documentary’- it’s 90 minutes of actual footage of a major hostage crisis in West Germany in August 1988.
You see things that will amaze you- like the hostage-takers walking around with guns drinking beer and smoking cigarettes and giving interviews with the media while their hostages are in a bus behind them. It gets more insane as it devolves into madness.
West Germany passed 2 laws after this nightmare incident- the media was prohibited from interviewing people while crimes were being committed. An even more important law prohibited anyone who aren’t the police from negotiating with hostage-takers during a crisis. You’ll see why.
The whole thing was an epic disaster for the West German media and police. You’ll see why.
Would love to hear other reactions.
Wow- it is a bizarre mind-blowing experience.
It’s like watching a movie- but it’s 100% real live stuff.
It’s not a ‘documentary’- it’s 90 minutes of actual footage of a major hostage crisis in West Germany in August 1988.
You see things that will amaze you- like the hostage-takers walking around with guns drinking beer and smoking cigarettes and giving interviews with the media while their hostages are in a bus behind them. It gets more insane as it devolves into madness.
West Germany passed 2 laws after this nightmare incident- the media was prohibited from interviewing people while crimes were being committed. An even more important law prohibited anyone who aren’t the police from negotiating with hostage-takers during a crisis. You’ll see why.
The whole thing was an epic disaster for the West German media and police. You’ll see why.
Would love to hear other reactions.
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Posted on 6/25/22 at 5:25 am to SportsGuyNOLA
The incident was surreal. I kept thinking it would be fairly easy to end if you had undercover cops dressed as reporters/cameramen go on the bus when the hostage takers were allowing them on there.
Posted on 6/25/22 at 8:46 am to iwantacooler
I know, right?
Especially before that female accomplice joined them.
Two plainclothes cops could’ve simultaneously shot the guy on the bus and the guy doing the interview.
The police looked afraid to intervene until the end.
I know in a lot of hostage situations, the police usually let time pass and the hostage-takers get worn out, but in this instance these guys were MOBILE. In no way should they let them take over that bus full of people, and then let them drive it around.
Especially before that female accomplice joined them.
Two plainclothes cops could’ve simultaneously shot the guy on the bus and the guy doing the interview.
The police looked afraid to intervene until the end.
I know in a lot of hostage situations, the police usually let time pass and the hostage-takers get worn out, but in this instance these guys were MOBILE. In no way should they let them take over that bus full of people, and then let them drive it around.
Posted on 6/25/22 at 8:52 am to SportsGuyNOLA
Thanks for giving me something to watch today. I like true crime documentaries but Netflix can be pretty hit or miss with their, usually, heavily padded docs.
Posted on 6/25/22 at 12:43 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
Just watched. Bizarre, surreal, and gross. The participating media and journalists looked at this as some kind of spectacle, some kind of live action movie, and they played a role in two teens dying. The main perp's ego was feasting on the media attention, and vice versa.
The police just straight up had their heads in their asses the entire time. Just completely incompetent, obscenely passive. Apathetic almost.
The 18 year old girl was absolutely stunning, and she showed a lot of bravery. The 14 yr old boy died a hero trying to protect his little sister.
The police just straight up had their heads in their asses the entire time. Just completely incompetent, obscenely passive. Apathetic almost.
The 18 year old girl was absolutely stunning, and she showed a lot of bravery. The 14 yr old boy died a hero trying to protect his little sister.
This post was edited on 6/25/22 at 12:47 pm
Posted on 6/25/22 at 1:43 pm to Funky Tide 8
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The 18 year old girl was absolutely stunning, and she showed a lot of bravery.
She looks like a supermodel cast for the role of ‘beautiful hostage’ if it was a movie.
It’s crazy that she just happened to be on the bus when they arrived in that city.
Mind-blowing when the reporters are asking her questions with a gun pointed at her chin at that rest area and again when they are in the BMW in downtown Cologne.
I read something REALLY interesting on the Wikipedia page for the incident that isn’t in the program- the BMW 735i that they were driving at the end that they had asked for from the police/ the West German police had fitted it with an engine killswitch- but they FORGOT TO BRING THE REMOTE CONTROL to activate it, so they had to ram the car on the Autobahn instead and have a shootout with the perps. Unbelievable.
This post was edited on 6/25/22 at 1:46 pm
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