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Description edit
This book contains English translations of Theodor Lessing's book on Fritz Haarmann (here called "Haarmann: the Story Of A Werewolf") and Karl Berg's biography of Peter Kurten (here titled "Kurten: The Vampire Of Dusseldorf"), the latter blended with George Godwin's "Peter Kurten: A Study In... read more
Books in This Collection
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Haarmann: Die Geschichte e. Werwolfs (German Edition)
by Theodor Lessing -
The Sadist
by Karl Berg (Author)Traces the life and crimes of Peter Kurten, better known to Weimar Germany as The Monster of Dusseldorf.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Fritz Haarmann: AKA The Butcher of Hanover
- Hans Grans: Haarmann's longtime companion
- Peter Kürten: AKA The Vampire Of Dusseldorf
- Fritz Rothe: student
- Fritz Franke: apprentice
- Wilhelm Schulze: apprentice
- Roland Huch: student
- Hans Sonnenfeld: laborer
- Ernst Ehrenberg: student
- Heinirich Struss: worked as an office junior
- Paul Bronichewski: apprentice
- Richard Graf: laborer
- Wilhelm Erdner: aprentice
- Hermann Wolf: laborer
- Heinz Brinkmann: student
- Adolf Hanappel: carpenter
- Adolf Hennies: laborer
- Ernst Spicker: locksmith
- Heinrich Koch: laborer
- Willi Senger: laborer
- Hermann Speichert: apprentice
- Alfred Hogrefe: apprentice
- Hermann Bock: laborer
- Wilhelm Apel: apprentice
- Robert Witzel: apprentice
- Heinz Martin: apprentice
- Fritz Wittig: traveller
- Fritz Abeling: student
- Friedrich Koch: apprentice
- Erich de Vries: journeyman
- Rosa Ohlinger: turned up February 9th, 1929
- Frau Kuhn: accosted by a man with a knife in 1929
- Erna Penning: playfully put her coat collar up around her neck when she heard a friend approaching in April, 1929
- Frau Flake: accosted by a man with a ligature in April, 1929
- Herr Scheer: the police had trouble with his story
- Frau Mantel: refused an offer by a stranger to walk with her
- Anna Goldhausen: met a total stranger who stabbed her
- Heinrich Kornblum: stabbed by a total stranger at almost the same time as Anna Goldhausen
- Fraulein Gross: stabbed in between the attacks on Anna Goldhausen and Heinrich Kornblum
- Getrude Hamacher: turned up 200 meters from her home after failing to come home from running an errand
- Louisa Lenzen: found with her sister, Gertrude Hamacher
- Gertrud Schuilte: got into a frantic struggle with a man who made an indecent pass at her
- Ida Reuter: worked in Barmen but visited Duseldorf
- Fraulein Dorrier: an unemployed servant
- Frau Meurer: a strange man spoke to her in October 1929
- Gertrud Albermann: a 5-year-old
- Maria Hahn: went missing on her day off
Quotes edit
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“I was reminded of a dog that had to be put down because of a compulsion to attack the necks of certain other dogs (which were always of a similarly degenerate nature to his) and bite through it until he had killed the dog. It was obvious at these times that the dog was sexually aroused.”
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“Then, again, the case of Anna Ist, I treated her so badly that she was black and blue. Yet even after that she went out with me again. Some women are funny!”
Peter Kurten -
“Haarman as regarded by all as a good protector and "youth hostel" warden. In the cupboard under the stairs where he hid the dead bodies, there were pots with meat, sweets of all kinds, cheeses, cold meats and chocolates for his pretty boys -- next to the current corpse.”
Author
Setting & Locations edit
Weimar Germany
- Hanover, Germany: Where Fritz Haarmann lived between the world wars, wheeling and dealing in used goods
- Dusseldorf, Germany: Where Peter Kurten lived and worked at a factory job
First Sentence edit
Criminologists will hail this book with excitement, for the two cases described in it are of crucial importance to the study of "serial murder."
Table of Contents edit
INTRODUCTION by Colin Wilson
HAARMANN -- THE STORY OF A WEREWOLF by Theodor Lessing
PART ONE -- TIME AND PLACE
PART TWO -- THE TRIAL
EPILOGUE
CLOSING WORDS ON HAARMANN AND GRANS
KURTEN -- THE VAMPIRE OF DUSSELDORF by Karl Berg
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1 THE DUSSELDORF ATROCITIES, 1929
CHAPTER 2 KURTEN'S CONFESSIONS BRING THE SOLUTION
CHAPTER 3 FATE AND PERSONALITY OF KURTEN
CHAPTER 4 KURTEN THE SADIST
CHAPTER 5 KURTEN'S CHARACTER PATTERN AND SOME ASPECTS OF CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
AFTERWORD -- THE SILVER SCREEN SHADOWS OF WEIMAR
Glossary edit
- verb, "To hamster": refers to stealing something
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Serial Murder. (community list)
This book is in True Crime: By Region. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Karl Berg (Author) - performed autopsies on Kurten's victims as well as interviewing the killer
- Theodor Lessing (Author) - sat in on Haarman's trial and had first-hand access to his psychiatric interviewers
- George Godwin (Author) - Blended with Berg's book in the section devoted to Kurten
Other Contributors:
- Colin Wilson (Introduction)
- Nigel Wingrove (Cover Artist)
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