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Aug. 08, 1971 - Brutal bank robbery in Munich (West Germany): Just before closing time (4 p.m.) two gangsters wearing maskers and provided with arms assaulted a branch of the Deutsche Bank in East Munich on August 4th. The gangsters held 13 hostages, but kept after a while only 5 of them (4 woman, 1 man). A posse of policeman surrounded the building and blocked the area. Six sharp shooters of the police were posted at the tactic important points. To let the hostages free the gangster asked for 2 million marks and a safe conduct. The police made them a car available. The gangster gave an ultimatum till 10 p.m. About midnight the situation became dramatical. The money was there. One of the gangsters left the bank with one hostage, the 20 year old Ingrid Reppel, to get to the car. At this moment the sharp shooters fired and shot the gangster, During the following shooting Ingrid Reppel, who was sitting in the car, was injured to death. Then the police assaulted the bank, freed the hostages and caught the second gangster. The gangster were the 32 year old Hans Geerg Rammelmayr from Munich (who had been killed) and the 24 year old Todorov Dimitri, assumed to be German from Graz (Austria). Ops: The deadly injured Georg Rammelmayr, left a doctor

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