S1 Ep11: Dutch Schultz (Part 1)

Mafia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Prohibition was a time that allowed those outside of the law to thrive, as rival bootlegging businesses were set up by mafia members all over the world. In the heart of New York's gangland was Dutch Schultz, a student of the old world thuggery, and a man with an exceptional taste for violence. Not even his closest friends were safe from his bloodlust.

As Dutch tried to make his way up the mafia ladder by muscling into territory, he came up against the likes of Arnold Rothstein, Vincent Coll, and his arch-rival – Charles "Lucky" Luciano – as well as the rest of the mob. And Dutch's preference for outspoken violence would lead to his downfall.

This episode is sponsored by The Black Tux, Shipstation, and Dollar Shave Club. Music is by Kevin MacLeod and Kai Engel

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Mafia, and in this audio boom original podcast series,
0:04.2	we explore America's criminal underworld to reveal the lives and careers of its greatest gangsters.
0:10.6	This episode is sponsored by The Black Tocks, Ship Station, and Dollar Shave Club.
0:15.4	This series has been extensively researched and produced in consultation with experts, authors, and those who are actually there.
0:24.2	In the lawless days of prohibition, Dutch Shults was the black sheep of the mob.
0:30.2	Dutch Shults never wanted to negotiate, he had a short temper, he was just scary and unpleasant to be around.
0:37.2	He was a gangster who reveled in violence and in finding increasingly imaginative ways of torturing and killing his victims.
0:45.2	Dutch Shults got this idea that he would encase, feed, incongrued, and dump him into the Harlem River, who's known as concrete legs.
0:55.2	So you do not want to double cross this man, he's got a temper, and he's perfectly happy to kill even people he's worked very closely with for years.
1:04.2	This is Mafia.
1:08.2	Nate Henley is author of The Mafia, a guide to an American subculture.
1:16.2	He spent years studying Dutch Shults and believes Dutch's problems began when as a child, he was abandoned by his father.
1:24.2	He was born Arthur Flaganheimer, so there is a sense of rejection, and by all accounts he was quite upset when his father left him.
1:33.2	So you could say logically that he feels the same sense of rejection when people turn against him, he's an outsider and revels in that image, but he wants sort of that acceptance underneath it all.
1:45.2	Arthur Flaganheimer started out in low-rent jobs around New York.
1:50.2	He also fell in with a gang of street kids in the Bronx, before long he was locked up for petty theft.
1:57.2	He went to prison when he was a teenager and spent about a year and a half in prison on his release.
2:04.2	Young Flaganheimer was determined to shed his past and show the world he could be somebody, through any means necessary.
2:14.2	His first move was to ditch his father's name.
2:18.2	He came out and was sort of welcome with open arms by his old street gang buddies.
2:23.2	They all said, well, you know, Arthur Flaganheimer doesn't quite have enough zip to it, and they all remembered they had been this old-time gangster from a generation before named Dutch Shults.
2:34.2	Why don't you just borrow his name, that is more zip to it.
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