Crime in Post-War Germany

Original title: Spektakuläre Kriminalfälle der Nachkriegszeit

• Documentary
• Crime
• War & Politics

The two-part documentary Crime in Post-War Germany shows how strained life was between 1945 and 1949 in the four occupied zones. Using the example of individual, particularly serious criminal cases, like in Dresden where a wood collector comes across the severed legs of a person or in Hamburg, where the so-called rubble murders terrify the whole city.

First aired

20 February 2020

Network

ZDF