One of the most dangerous criminal gangs of the postwar era, which terrorized all of Munich, was the Panther Gang. The leader of this ruthless gang was Hugo Werner, a 21-year-old Munich bricklayer’s a...
Mathias Kneißl was a true bandit legend who continues to inspire countless films and books to this day. This last bandit of Bavaria was born on May 12, 1875, in Unterweikertshofen. Mathias was the eld...
More than 30 years ago, 18-year-old Lolita Brieger disappeared. She worked as an unskilled seamstress in Jünkerath, a village in the Vulkaneifel region of North Rhine-Westphalia, where she lived in a ...
Everyone knows the saying: “You have to eat the soup you’ve made for yourself.” This idiom, used when someone is to blame for something, originates from an old dining custom. In the past, people often...
The Chorinsky case was a sensational crime that kept the international press in suspense for months and occurred during a highly volatile political period in which the old feudal system clashed with t...
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Germany was the case of Hans Hetzel, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years. But how could this have happened? Hans Hetzel, a trained butcher and mar...
