Documentary · Germany · 2017 · 26m

Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher From Hanover

Fritz Haarmann: der Schlächter von Hannover

Synopsis

In Hanover, Germany 1924, the discovery of bones and skulls catches the authorities’ attention. Media covers the case and a suspect – Fritz Haarmann – is quickly arrested. Haarmann is a local butcher who manufactures his own sausages. Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of a minimum of 24 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924 in Hanover, Germany.

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