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DEUTSCHLAND BAHN UNGLUECK ESCHEDE
Politiker stehen am 21. Juni 1998 waehrend einer Gedenkverstanstaltung fuer die Opfer des ICE-Ungluecks in Eschede vor einem Kreuz aus Blumen. 101 Menschen kamen ums Leben, als der ICE Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen am 3. Juni 1998 nach einem Radbruch an einer Weiche entgleiste und vor dem Bahnhof von Eschede gegen eine Bruecke prallte. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) --- German President Roman Herzog, center, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, third from right, Jutta Limbach, President of the Federal Constitutional Court, second from right, Gerhard Glogowski, Minister of the Interior of Lower Saxony, right, Rita Suessmuth, President of the German Lower House Bundestag, third of left, Gerhard Schroeder, Prime minister of the German Federal state of Lower Saxony, second from left, an Edmund Stoiber, Prime minister of German Federal state of Bavaria, left, place flowers at a symbolic memorial cross during the official wreath-laying ceremony after derailment of an ICE high speed train in Eschede, Lower Saxony, Germany, on Sunday June 21, 1998. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)