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206: Episode 206 - Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher of Hannover

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True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In the early 1900s Germany was a nation ravaged by the horrors of war, debt and death. For years, as they struggled with stagflation and starvation, all manner of depravity began to emerge; there had even been rumours of human meat being sold on Germany’s black markets.

And it was during this time, that a dangerous man roamed the streets committing a series of gruesome murders so diabolical that he terrified people who had survived the nightmares of WW1. This man, a deviant sexual sadist, went on to be known as The Butcher of Hanover...


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That's all we're going to say, because now we've got to move on.

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Oh yes, we've got to move on up and over to Germany.

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To a big old pastocase, which doesn't happen often here on Red Handed.

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But when it does, we pick a horrible kind of one.

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Is he a kind of, not really a kind of a horrible fucking

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maybe? We'll figure out.

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