s callousness the chaos after the first world war reentered the rules redundant. and people now have this absolutely insatiable lust for life because they survived the war and the one hundred block. of ice suddenly criminal behavior became routine distro so they must have been really smart safe cracker's they had the entire berlin crime squad pulling their hair out notion that in seeing. the coroner's concluded that the body parts belong to twenty three different women swore. first by what it provoked we now call profiling is essentially being practiced back then by inspect again not. a lot of detectives were celebrities some even had their own. paper columns and wrote books would probably feel. berlin the bustling burgeoning capital of germany at the dawn of the weimar republic. some residents wore warm winter coats and clean white shirts and could afford a christmas tree but all too many of their fellow berliners were left starving and destitute after the first world war. after increasing hardship during the war people now faced a desperate struggle to get back on their feet for untold thousands it was a fight for survival food was scarce ungar a part of everyday life. a series of attempted coups posed a major challenge to the fledgling democracy as it came under attack from both left and right wing extremists and the chief battleground for domestic political conflict was berlin that's callus set in the chaos after the first world war into dili rules redundant and left behind a moral vacuum in viet. you know at absolute zero there were no rules anymore and no principles kind of yet to mere following the defeat in collapse of the german empire there was a lack of practical experience of anything other than a monarchy and a slight game of disc if there was a general feeling of insecurity where nobody knew how things would go from there it was essential a struggle over which form of government and state parliamentary democracy or a soviet style communist republic stitched into the public on november ninth one thousand nine hundred eighteen a meal i sean was appointed berlin's police chief just eight weeks later however the independent socialist was dismissed by the government with our sean refusing to vacate. his office says the army was brought in to immobilize police headquarters by bombarding it with gunfire skit on the three hundred people and i horns defense militia who are still inside headquarters surrendered their weapons then disappeared with the department cashbox its subsequent whereabouts remain unknown to this day as the us. this my demo missions are shown as dismissal triggered mass demonstrations attended by up to half a million people and riots culminating in the spartacist uprising. just another two months later the march uprising was launched with the aim of toppling the interim government central berlin was torn apart by fighting of civil war proportions those deemed insurgents were summarily executed many of them still in their teens. a state of emergency was declared in berlin government troops were ordered to shoot anyone bearing arms on site. by this point the gravestones of communist leaders also took some borgen carli connection would been among the first killed in january were already gathering marks. is now some form of on the march uprising was suppressed by the army. in march one thousand nine hundred there were one thousand two hundred fatalities in berlin much the figure that would be unthinkable today us . but you have to remember that these men had often fought on the battlefields of a are done so they were desensitized and no longer bothered by the sight of dead bodies. the thinking was more along the lines of you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs so i have to i'm confused with the french. not going are going to forest and lake on the outskirts of berlin just twenty kilometers away from the epicenter of the bloody uprising a sparsely populated haven of tranquility shattered by the discovery of a growing number of bodies in the woods the bodies of murder victims they were the victims afraid to be shoe money the first serial killer of the weimar republic. had any human murdered people indiscriminately women who he had also right ramblas haikus courting couples. and these was serial killings bodies were repeatedly discovered in the forest and schumann always disappeared into thin air like a ghost so of course this instilled fear in the local population because things. the lake was a popular haunt for daytrippers rowers and fishermen in the summertime people would camp out on its shores but it was couples who really seemed to aggravate the creator issue mine. that if i was spoiled tot he was extremely brutal as such a classic case of a murderer driven by love. the problem was that he was able to go about it over such a long period of time of a time gone. this mood as far as took place over a period of three years and so people were naturally unsettled people even began selling up and moving elsewhere. within the police record makes reference to fifty victims. numers crimes included seven murders fifteen counts of attempted murder five arson attacks eleven rapes and assorted counts of theft and robbery born in spandau in eight hundred ninety three he was reported to have been bad tempered as a child and later trained as a locksmith shulman found human hadn't exactly been blessed with good fortune his father was an alcoholic with a criminal record ranging from theft to fraud and blackmail his grandfather had reportedly been convicted of sexually abusing children. do you know his mother was a very religious woman a mormon she is said to have not been particularly intelligent and she until he can give a sense ion. trewin bought his first gun at a young age and practiced shooting on animals he soon enough began targeting human beings. sent yes no laws he was in his teens when he committed his first murder he shot his female cousin in the forest he claims not was an accident the gun went off on its own i was just playing around with it instead of being given a jail sentence he was sent to a correctional institution and started to come. after completing his locksmith apprenticeship schuman was conscripted into the german army. together with hundreds of thousands of other young men he was given a gun and dispatched to the trenches of the first world war sherman had now being given the job of shooting at people. commenting clique so he learned how to shoot it streamed he well during the war and loved it use of that he was a top marksman and was awarded the iron cross second class and higher so then he came home and really couldn't cope with normal life pretty much a typical scenario with the soldiers returning from the first world war like. an entire generation of young men had been left traumatized by their experiences in the trenches. when forced to have they've seen unimaginable things bodies with to shreds people with their intestines hanging out at the most common the women in the field hospital saw men with no job skills or with limbs missing and of course that lowered their emotional threshold intrusion of what cisco bought the tranquility of fark and hog and forest was a world away from the era splitting noise of the first world. war battlefields but human brought able to that paradise again and again. show might have been was absolutely enamored with the forest he was a bird watching a nature lava adding a troop that. truman later revealed the motives for his deeds to his attorney. she disturbed man while i was hunting scared off the birds i was after. they were laughing so loudly they saw me in the forest and gave me this flippant look. he disturbed me when i was about to follow the girl. and he later said during an interrogation that he was a poacher he'd also shot animals but left them in the forest for him it was just about killing. so that contradicts the notion of him being in one in fact he was a very confused individual. after three years of murdering at will and without being identified the serial killer was finally caught when an attack on a local far astaire did not go as planned. this f.l. study had to forest a call to him stop where are you going and schumann replied to the village of the forest and then said no that's the other direction and shimon said well i'm going this way thinking he was a poacher the forester went after him shimon immediately drew his pistol and opened fire at the forest one touch off being fast and free at. truman's a gun jammed and a building the seriously wounded forester to get away. before he died he was able to describe his attacker who likewise had a bullet wound. the police dispatched a memo to all hospitals and doctors in the vicinity warning them of the danger and a small one morning a young man showed up at a doctor's practice in spandau complaining of terrible pains in his shell. yeah he claimed his job involved working with explosives and detonators and must have been accidently hit by shrapnel when examining the wound the doctor knew that it contained shotgun pellets. that's what you need a thought of the memory and told his wife to go to the police while he took his time treating the injured man behind this fits he just finished bandaging the wound when the police arrived and schumann was arrested without offering resistance one had. truman was to be tried at the more beat criminal court he was assigned a public defender one of the city's most capable criminal lawyers dr eric fry he would later recall his first meeting with two months before the trial. if i hadn't known who was standing across from me i would never of thought this frail looking youth was a dangerous mass murderer. but then i saw his eyes they were the eyes of a captive animal wild and predatory. i was to see this face and the shocking transformations it was capable of countless more times. schuman was held in platoons a prison but a new development shortly before the planned execution shed a different light on the entire case. in ghana the night before the execution his attorney paid him another visit. off to eating his last meal he confessed to another twenty five murders. that he wrote down everything to the last detail that did not allow his attorney to use the information for a new trial he wanted to be executed and did not want a retrial headingley. and so schumann was executed as planned his executioner was caught and framed as the read judge. but the first mass murder in the weimar republic where almost became newspapers small print amidst the turmoil in berlin and march nineteenth twenty two reactionary generals had unleashed an attempted coup that brought germany back to the brink of civil war. the first phase of the weimar republic was dogged by a major problem following the defeat in the first world war how could former soldiers especially those in the regular army be provided with gainful employment keek and meanwhile fry course had sprung up when doug opposite i'm sure the fight quads. the fry course were paramilitary units that have been hastily assembled in the aftermath of the war they were joined by both active members of the armed forces and former soldiers the social democrat government was forced to flee. but the coup failed after just four days due to the military leaders having disparate objectives and because a general strike called by the social democrats and the unions brought berlin to a standstill millions followed the call the streets were empty it was the biggest strike in german history and the tension and trouble were far from over. politically motivated murders were par for the course and right wingers who opposed the terms of the treaty of versailles were particularly aggressive in their hatred of politicians they saw as lackeys of the enemy when one afternoon sport he think of. social democrat parliamentarian philip shadowman was fortunate to survive an acid attack. the center parties much. who had signed the armistice of nineteen eighteen had no chance when right wing terrorists shot him dead while he was out for a stroll. turned out to know from the left of center german democratic party foreign minister and jewish was also detested by nationalists once a few. now was then likewise assassinated he was on his way to work when a car drove by a crew they opened fire with a machine gun and a hand grenade. for police investigations revealed the existence of a clandestine right wing terrorist group the organization or o.c. . and this group remained active throughout the one nine hundred twenty s. and into the nazi era so i think this you not see our mission of the weimar republic was under permanent threat from right wing groups but what. their aim championed by the likes of former frigate captain how much was cheaper. both a civil war. they ultimately hope to install a military dictatorship but further attacks would not materialize the news of rotten i was murdered led to to mulch was scenes in parliament leftwing and centrist parties chanted long live the republic. in the early one nine hundred twenty s. hundreds of thousands of berliners faced increasing deprivation and with money rendered worthless due to hyperinflation unemployment and poverty were rife. a small and that it was utter chaos. there was suddenly widespread poverty and people were living at subsistence level. and then there was massive inflation gonna puke on the hikes banks struggled to print money to keep up with what people were spending. the majority of the population suffered immensely under the hardships. and shivering and for which. germany was undergoing one of the most drastic monetary devaluations ever seen and the industrial world. the black market and bartering florist. in order to meet its war reparations payments the government printed more money but with bank notes losing value every day it meant that people were unable to buy anything the city's many soup kitchens were a lifeline for thousands. caught in need of the inflation period so rise in public she related crime that even otherwise respectable middle class women were now starting to steal things like food and they simply did not have enough money to feed their families and as you can get a growing number of bakers shops and grocery stores were being looted i mean crimes that suddenly became commonplace that's fun for a handy five macallan. police photographs of a crime scene a break in by professional burglars. petty theft. rose significantly in the course of the one nine hundred twenty s. the conviction rate was significantly below fifty percent. but was no higher for homicides investigators were able to solve the mugging and murder of this man on new year's eve one thousand nine hundred twenty for example. and in the case of this woman the murderer was identified by a number of hairs found in the hand of the victim. meanwhile berlin was becoming a hotbed for sins of a different kind as people sought to escape from daily life after dark berlin became synonymous with hedonistic decadence the city became one long party of excess and earthly delights. mind we're going to have people wanted to live on it's people now this is absolutely insatiable lust for life because they've survived the war on as a result of what people might later call vice absolutely thrived stuff that size them the privileged indulged in an auburn garden large style openly expressed in the latest fashions those are good afford it had their own car and chauffeur their wealth amassed by the speculators and war profiteers was on open display in the main downtown boulevards not all stores where you had stocked full of new products but the shop window displays were stimulating material desires also seeking to capitalize on people's material desires was one mocks clinton who set up shop in one nine hundred twenty a brush maker by trade klunder persuaded tens of thousands of people to invest their money with him plan to sleep plan to was pretty counting your. money from people with extremely high and rates of interest. i if you lent him a hundred months you might get six hundred back by the end of the year. so what because you have four it's what a deal and the bad part is he managed to pull it off he amassed an enormous sum of money and called himself the people's benefactor the good guy. max planter invested the money at the racecourse. trying to bet big and i want to read. marx. today you might call must clown to a horse whisperer he was always at the races especially in hope of gotten which was popular with high society would you had to leave on with just one gate use the money he won to pay back the loans including an interest. it was a snowball system and it worked pretty well for a time and when he built something of an empire yeah he set up racing teams with his own jockeys and i. he had offices across the city and people flocked to them. and over again word of a million people interested cantor with their savings and used the money to buy up famous cafes and turn them into betting shops but in september one thousand nine hundred twenty one the bubble burst. on loftus eventually the whole thing collapsed says when he was arrested people gathered outside police headquarters demanding his release zs you climb into. the idea he had a prominent public profile people refused to believe they'd fallen for a con man. either way all the money was gone down for a church in december nine hundred twenty two cantor was put on trial for fraud india legal gambling he owed his victims ninety million goldmark's and was handed a three year jail sentence. yes if i were just he planned to disappear and have him self committed to a sanatorium. in the us but his plan failed and he was sent to jail for it so as far as i know he stayed in berlin after the second world war and made a modest income for himself as a brush maker no one he later took his own life probably in around one nine hundred fifty five. after the first world war berlin did not yet exist in its current form until then future districts such as sponge norton borgen or kurd were separate towns but then a new lot created the third biggest city in world wide. then he and berlin became greater berlin in one nine hundred twenty and i'm all good nation of towns and dozens of villages and estates. swanson's good spits was the result was a city with almost four million inhabitants and if you. lend was booming and all branches of business set up shop in the city industry banks and factories berlin had once been germany's industrial capital and his and. ninety percent of berliners lived in the tenement blocks that had been hastily thrown out in the decades before the first world war the tiny yard separating the blocks of each building were really only subject to one stipulation that they were big enough for fire engines to turn around for the average family rent cost them one third of their income most apartments only had heating in one room down and mold on internal walls were common place among. them and blocks had little to no air and sunlight. and they had a series of backyards some of which were in complete darkness you know what we would call a decent apartment today it was then. luxury. of one of the apartments were very small flinty comprising just one room. that there was one toilet in the stairwell shared by four tenets of. my not that if people had a kitchen at all it was part of the living room. it would have a stove and a cooking hub there was no gas or electricity a lot of people still used candles conditions were incredibly cramped and no. i can imagine nerves becoming frayed as people were herded together like that on a daily basis today we wouldn't be able to cope with it. but demand was high even for the tiniest places in one thousand nine hundred two berlin had one hundred forty seven thousand people oafish really looking for an apartment thousands of single men were forced to compete for a place to sleep in the city's homeless shelters. they had to be out by seven in the morning and could only hope that they were still in possession of their personal belongings. there was a large shelter in prince loud that people sarcastically. but the situation it was a depressing one of course. is what it never opened until the afternoon and there was zero security for the homeless people there was an accountancy there was widespread thieving and the place was infested with loss so people did whatever they could to avoid ending up their fists in the most. single women faced particularly distressing circumstances they were considered fair game they would plead for jobs as maids secretaries and assembly line workers but the saturated labor market rented opportunities were few and far between. yesterday for the first world war had transformed people's lives and my most a lot of women was suddenly left to fend for themselves and their children and young men and the lack of men had an impact that would last until after the second world war among who did hear this means right and they click on scabs if they were a very large number of women who was single and earned a living running general store was always pub on as. far as chung hilton dished out of and i know that i was suddenly alone and had to get by however they could write it in the nine hundred twenty s. and thirty's saw an alarming number of female murder victims who managed to corner shops and pubs line leave and order often shellfish after. this appeal to the public for information was distributed following the murder of martha klaus a general store owner and her killer was subsequently apprehended. there were huge goal symbol in society in the early one nine hundred twenty s. the small middle class were doing well enough to put food on the table and treat themselves to some entertainment. but a lot of children were left on their own during the day while their parents were at work the majority of the population faced in. really struggling against poverty tens of thousands of working class families lived at subsistence level. economic hardship and starvation led to an increase in crime. then bodies were reported regularly to the police in each case the detectives first had to determine whether they were looking at a suicide or a homicide the criminal investigation department was based at police headquarters on xander plots dubbed the red castle and again it was head of the homicide squad. again that's is under i cannot speak achievement was to recognize russia to his arrival with the most urgent work needed to be done. there was no proper organization in the berlin police forces operations. instead of being sorted in assigned cases would disappear into the filing cabinets of random detectives or what crime scenes were not properly secuity forensic evidence was often destroyed literally trampled a misplaced sometimes dead bodies will move from cold told flows on to couches out of respect again not was a poor old he was the first to really put some thought into making a criminal investigation more effective i mean i put it scientific even. members of the homicide department were automatically called in when somebody died of unnatural causes first they would take photos then write a comprehensive report of the crime scene for get out the chief detective had been exposed to the workings of the criminal world since easynews. son fought on their face father was the director of plots in the present and his brother was a prosecutor that he himself was a detective. he was a down to earth berliner and used to say i catch them my brother convicts them and dad lost some away i'm sure about certain parents cannot get heard no end of prison stories at the family dinner table not for the dad when he was constantly exposed to crime conflicts and what life was like for that part of the population. in a newspaper article he once said that he used to go and watch court proceedings while still a high school and he clearly said he sought some becoming a criminal investigator. so i mean i would say so and from attending those trials he became pretty savvy in analyzing and judging people tired as you would and ships and. there was a popular local song doing the rounds of the time about a corpse floating in the city's main canal at the beginning of the nineteen twenties there were a growing number of corpses and body parts turning up in the city's waterways in some cases they were suicides but a lot of women had clearly been murdered the police had yet another a serial killer to deal with. here they can and the song about the body in the canal is well known. and it was a typical scenario in one thousand nine hundred twenty one berlin bodies were found floating in the river spree or in the main canal on an almost weekly basis sometimes i need parts of bodies and the police had no idea who the culprit was just meaningless horner's concluded that the various body parts belonged to twenty three different women swore. they pieced the bodies together from the different parts were enough were available that is. the police issued to appeals asking the public for any information connected to these or rigged crimes the victims were all women. the dismembered bodies were the top. of the town the crucial tip in this case however came from a neighbor of karr grossman the perpetrator. him and of course he had an apartment in a backyard tenement building on longest hasa albeit just the one room soon there were a number of apartments coming off the one long hallway one of them was where a mr it's a he lived. in point a child via a shooting when he went to the police stations and reported having heard terrible screams coming from cost man's apartment the last monger teta he put it so i had the police broke down the door and found grossman standing before them naked and covered in blood in the ashley squalid kitchen they saw a dead woman drenched in blood and with numerous stab wounds mishandle toward fall he'd already began dismembering her. and that's how the police found him. and salt water before in. his final victim was thirty five year old martin richard a cook from dresden. like so many young women she'd come to berlin looking for work dreaming of finding a job somewhere in this sprawling city and send him a tour he had a pretty simple method he'd hang around at a billion station waiting for naive young women arriving by train from the countryside he counted they'd come with just a little suitcase most of them destitute with no place to stay and nothing to eat with so if. they came to billion in the hope of finding a great job somewhere as a servant maybe inoffensive villa a few thought shy of them but a lot of them ended up working as prostitutes marion mitchell has just done a brief term in prison. the day after her release she was now looking for a place to stay there were a lot of girls and young women living in desperate circumstances and falling existence in the publius martin. savidge most men would see a girl sitting in the station waiting room alone and sobbing in despair. at his and then he'd strike up a conversation and offer them a job as a housekeeper. and some helpless were taken in the original police file refers to grossman abusing them to satisfy his abnormal sexual urges he told one witness how he wanted to be file the women and used instruments to destroy their innermost selves and guns should a muslim he was an extreme sadist just reading about what he did with these women make sure notches. it's beyond words some women survived or were able to escape but didn't go to the police at least not until later. as well as amps how he would even employ his own housemates who would have his way with for a few days or once he'd murdered them or they'd run away he would actually go to the police and accuse his employees of having stolen things and even file a missing persons reports that he had plenty of chutzpah of the few hot spot that he has. by this point a number of girls months victims had been found in the city's canals dismembered to prevent them from being identified coroners however had developed a special procedure and facility for reconstructing or dressing the bodies so as to make the young women recognizable. the police hoped that publishing the photos of the reassembled and prepared dead women would lead to information and tipoff from the public who the victims were and whether grossman was responsible. for their dads. detect on but of course there was extensive newspaper coverage of the case in the trial grossman was dubbed the ripper and the beast of burden lynn and was infamous across the country hash and fun gunson from sun another really interesting aspect is that the detective investigating the case of xander borg managed to get a confession by taking care of grossman's pet bird since called pension hence you know. there's even the legend that he said he'd tell everything if venable promise to care for his little finch. mindset and that's reportedly what happened to. on so it's us and uk of reasons and it's valuable because at that yeah when venable said not to worry he'd take care of the bird grossman apparently confessed to at least three murders. around aboard kept his promise the finch would outlive goes one by two years. yeah that's how you often see that with mass murder as that they form very close relationships with animals or a particular pit it's almost typical for someone with grossman psychological makeup so who the close ones. police investigators spent ten months compiling evidence of for their amazons by grossman in vain corresponding was charged with just three counts of murder which would be enough to earn him the death penalty his attorney was a very trier would previously defended free to issue mark a total of forty eight witnesses testified at his trial many had disturbing accounts as fry later recalled in a book. the procession of female witnesses was a dreadful sight. there they stood the girls from the countryside the homeless and the street walkers it was only by chance that they did not likewise end up in the canal. some wept uncontrollably others screamed hysterically as they gave accounts of their experiences. but on july fifth one nine hundred twenty two gross one cheated the judge and the executioner yet but says the trial never reached a conclusion before grossman killed himself in his cell sex profit incentive. at nine am today goes one committed suicide by hanging himself and he is. seeing him tried for just three of the twenty three murders and left the police deeply dissatisfied with court proceedings and none more so than the famous homicide investors. it are constantly not. just fun cannot thought it was outrageous and rightly so he said and what about the other murders. is that the murderer now goes free without punishment or will convict the wrong guy for the crime. and fashion. cannot and his team wanted each murder case to be subjected to meticulous research not just those three he wanted to buy for three years cost one had been able to continue murdering women without being identified he was now fifty seven and had by no means started killing just recently he had committed countless other crimes only not in berlin. when grossman was arrested nobody in berlin had any idea that had already served time in prison for a series of rights and sexually motivated murders in bavaria and had to find by on . the prior convictions section of his police farland berlin stated allegedly not something the authorities were unable to track due to the lack of a nationwide criminal record system how to dial in sponsorship honda by the age of twenty three he'd already been convicted of twenty four crimes assault larceny zardari beastie ality with a goat or columbine and a few years later he was handed to one year sentences and then another jail term with hard labor for raping two girls leaving one seriously injured mutu the other dies from a perennial laceration which could not be repaired in those days. for that he served fifteen years on a muslim from ft see ya for. hours about it was no centralized police authority back then precisely what kinna had always wanted that's why that information never . beilin a nationwide research request would be awfully slow so grossman was released from jail time and time again and each time he continued murdering people within no time always in a different part of the country washington were in thailand or chance. and that was what enabled cross run to continue his spree undetected outraged by the authorities lax handling of the mass murderer repeatedly released only to murder again and specter again not accuse them of being a bureaucratic accessory to murder. just could be the problem was that while we did have a homicide department in one thousand know to say its members only met on an ad hoc basis clarke when. it comprised a range of different divisions so information was never forwarded to colleagues next door in other divisions why would a serious nor where they use for training purposes could you from the it's on of arkansas instances and now thankfully then criminal investigation chase down how device gave and cannot is backings and the go ahead for a homicide investigation unit for the musky bullshit of. when it delivered excellent results soon or and spotted on the grounds of her movements. as in the case of dora paskin in one nine hundred twenty seven a young woman murdered on a suburban train there were no witnesses the murderer was able to mingle among the other passengers and escape but this case too would be solved by an honest good night. the league's two top clubs battled it out from a fly not go frenzy and schooled five linehan of the club by and hit the back of the net four times to bring down 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