Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher From Hanover

Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher From Hanover

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 23, 2017

Runtime

0h 26m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Fritz Haarmann: der Schlächter von Hannover

Production Companies

ARTE France Cinéma

Director

Katia Chapoutier

Description

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.