The city of Leipzig was once the most important location for German publishers and book wholesalers. These were mainly located in the Graphisches Viertel (Graphic Quarter) east of the city center. Thi...
A series of robberies and murders so spectacular that they even made their way onto the stage took place during the Weimar period. The main character was Wilhelm Blume, whose dream was to become a gre...
One of the most notorious serial killers in German criminal history was Bernhard Prigan, better known as the Highway Killer. He was given this nickname by the media because he usually killed his victi...
Almost everyone knows the popular children’s song “Bake, bake a cake. The baker has called! Who wants to bake a good cake? You need seven ingredients.” According to the children’s song, th...
The last murderer sentenced to death and executed in Austria was Johann Trnka. He was a robber and murderer who had brutally murdered two women in Vienna. When student Heinrich Koller arrived at his m...
Berlin-Marzahn, a district in eastern Berlin, was terrorized by a series of shocking phone calls between 1985 and 1987. These calls came from an anonymous perpetrator who incited children to commit de...
