EP 135: The True Story Behind Stockholm Syndrome

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This week on Hashtag History, we are going to be looking at a very interesting event in History that resulted in a common phrase or psychological term that most of us are familiar with today: Stockholm Syndrome.

This psychological condition derives its name from the 1973 Stockholm Bank Robbery.

On August 23, 1973, a man named Jan-Erik Olsson (a convict) attempted to rob a bank in Stockholm, Sweden. Olsson – later, also alongside a former jail mate of his, Clark Olofsson — would end up taking four of the bank employees hostage while they awaited police to comply with their very specific demands. Over the course of this hostage situation, the hostages would actually appear to take sides with their captors with one hostage in particular - a woman named Kristin Enmark - telling authorities that she was actually afraid of the police, and not her captors. When this hostage situation was finally resolved, not a single one of the hostages testified against Olsson or Olofsson in the following criminal trial. Rather, they actually assisted in raising funds for their legal defense.

So what's the deal? Listen to this week's episode to find out.

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