Almost perfect crimes: Gabi Thieme’s new book is dedicated to sensational criminal cases from Saxony | free press

There was no telephone in the Sparkasse. It’s hard to imagine today, but that’s how it was in the period of upheaval in the early 1990s, at least in the small branch in Arnsfeld near Annaberg-Buchholz. There was also no real safe there, sometimes there was money in a desk drawer, and usually only one employee was present….