Germany - Lithuania - Poland
Feb. 02, 1957 - Bank-Robbery Defeated: On Feb. 28th, 57, nineteen years old keeper of a gasolinstation Stefan Melzer-Grewe, entered the savingsbank of the little town of Balve/westphalia. He threatened the purser with a pistol and tried to take money out off the money-chest. Meanwhile a client of the bank, merchant Franz Gercken, 22, attacked the gangster and succeeded to catch him thought he was blessed by a shot of the robber's pistol. Soon some employies of the banc jumped over the barrier, overwhelmed the gangster and called for the police. These scences were repeated for the German television, now. Without the gangster himself, who was replaced by a double, all persons are the same
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