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I'm Sruti. I'm Hannah. And welcome to Redhanded, an award-winning podcast. I'll never get tired of saying it.

I know a hard-winning show. Gold award-winning listeners' choice, people's princesses' zizizizos of a show.

And we're not going to talk about Priti Patel here. If you want to know our thoughts on the whole England,

Euro's, debacle, everything to do with Priti Patel, just come listen to it on Under the Duvet.

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

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

To a big old pastocase. Which doesn't happen often here on Redhanded.

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

Is he a cannibal? Not really a cannibal. A horrible fucking maybe.

We'll figure out. We'll hold your judgment until the end.

So today we're heading to Hanover, the capital and largest city of the state of Lower Saxony.

It was here in the early 1900s in a state already devastated by the horrors of war, crime and poverty

that a series of murders were committed by a man so diabolical that he would go on to be known as many things including the vampire of Hanover,

the werewolf of Hanover and the butcher of Hanover.

Two supernaturals and a normal job. Absolutely, absolutely.

At first I was like, how many monarchs does one man need?

But when you are done researching the case, you feel like yes, all of those are appropriate. All of them fit.

So they just couldn't pick one.

See as a dog man with a butcher's knife.

So it was 1918. The German army said collapsed in the World War and a generation of young soldiers who'd spent the last five years in battle, returned home to find 14 million people dead.

The German mark was plummeting in value with each passing day and you've all likely seen the photos of young children making things like kites out of almost worthless German papaymark banknotes

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