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Crimes That Made History Season 1 Episode 3

In 1924 Hanover, the discovery of a hundred bones catches the authorities’ attention. The press covers the case and a suspect – Fritz Haarmann – is quickly arrested. The heinous crimes committed by the one they now call “the vampire” remind people of the Great War’s traumas and announce the rise of Nazism. Cruelty, sexual violence, cannibalism in the fragile Weimar Republic.

Episode Title: Fritz Haarmann: Vampire in the Weimar Republic

Air Date: 2017-10-06