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  Norrmalmstorg robbery
The Norrmalmstorg robbery occurred in Sweden in 1973, and was famous for two reasons:
On August 23, 1973, Jan Erik "Janne" Olsson, on leave from prison, walked into Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, central Stockholm.
Police was called in immediately, two of them went inside, and Olsson opened fire, injuring one policeman.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/Norrmalmstorg_robbery.html   (697 words)

  
  Stockholm syndrome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The syndrome has been named this way after the famous bank robbery of Kreditbanken in Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm which lasted from August 23 to August 28, 1973.
(See Norrmalmstorg robbery.) In this case the victims kept on defending their captors even after their 6 days physical detention was over.
Famous cases regarded airplane hostages and kidnapped people, such as Patricia Hearst, who after having been a hostage of a politically engaged military organisation (the Symbionese Liberation Army, or SLA), joined it several months after she was freed.
encyclopedia.jigyasa.in /wikipedia/s/st/stockholm_syndrome.html   (240 words)

  
 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The square is famous for being host of the Norrmalmstorg robbery which fittingly gave name to the Stockholm syndrome.
Norrmalmstorg is also the most expensive property in the Swedish version of the Monopoly board game.
Norrmalmstorg Norrmalmstorg is the epicenter of Stockholm's shopping district.
norrmalmstorg.iqexpand.com   (258 words)

  
 Norrmalmstorg robbery Information
The Norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery best known as the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome.
Apart from creating the Stockholm syndrome term, the robbery has inspired a feature film by Håkan Lindhé named Norrmalmstorg aired on Swedish television on August 29, 2003.
British rock band Muse and American rock band Blink-182 both have songs entitled Stockholm Syndrome, the former on the album Absolution and the latter on its untitled album.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery   (823 words)

  
 Norrmalmstorg (2003) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This is the true story of the failed bank robbery-cum-hostage taking in a bank at the square Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in September 1973.
In 1973 Janne Olsson walked into a bank at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm Sweden....
I think Torkel Petersson gives the movie a boost up on the voting scale for his role as Janne Olsson.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0323434   (255 words)

  
 svtsales.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Hostages Kristin Enmark, Birgitta Lundblad and Sven Säfström also open their hearts about the fateful days they spent locked in the bank vault.
Ingemar Krusell, the former police detective who headed the preliminary investigation into the Norrmalmstorg incident, also describe how the police dealt with the situation and why so many misconceptions and untruths had circulated.
The interviews alternate with archive footage, including images from the secret police, which have never before been shown to the public.
www.svt.se /svtsales/tvshow.asp?ID=184   (164 words)

  
 Norrmalmstorg robbery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery best known as the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome.
Apart from creating the Stockholm syndrome term, the robbery has inspired a feature film by Håkan Lindhé named Norrmalmstorg aired on Swedish television on August 29, 2003.
British rock band Muse and American rock band Blink-182 both have songs entitled Stockholm Syndrome, the former in the album Absolution and the latter in its untitled album.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Norrmalmstorg-robbery.htm   (886 words)

  
 Stockholm Syndrome: Unequal Power Relationships
After initiation, Hearst, dubbed "Tania" by the group, helped in a robbery, but when the SLA lost their power in a fire fight with the Los Angeles Police Department, she was returned to her family.
(4) Unlike the Norrmalmstorg Robbery, she distanced herself from the group and her captors when she returned to her regular life, and insisted that her reasons for joining were purely in self protection.
Perhaps Patricia Hearst, despite the abuse endured in the time of her kidnapping, was not necessarily protecting the others by joining the SLA, but attempting to save herself by the actions she believed would help.
serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro04/web1/kkrasnec.html   (1955 words)

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