Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 1 June 1972

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During the shootout Grams killed officer Michael Oskar 'Shorty' Newrzella and suffered five gunshot wounds himself before falling down platform 3/4. During the operation his 36-year-old girlfriend and RAF member Birgit Hogefeld was arrested. Shortly after the operation there were allegations that Grams had not shot himself but was executed with a shot in the head from close range by a GSG 9 officer but they were upheld by five different courts.
(27 June 1993)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 1st of June 1972 54 years, 4 months and 1 days ago
Members of Left-wing militant group the Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins are arrested after a shootout with the police in Hofeckweg 2-4, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. During the siege Baader is shot in the leg.