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Fritz Haarmann admitted to murdering at least 50 young boys.
In the 1920s, Fritz Haarmann was a household name in Hanover, Germany, and for all the right reasons. He was the beloved local butcher with cheap prices, but soon enough, he’d become infamous and go down in history for murders that tested human imagination and cruelty.
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A butcher, Fritz also successfully sold second-hand clothes and supplied especially cheap meat to the local housewives. They all knew him. However, not only that, and because of his knee-deep ear in local gossip, he was also a police informant. Ironically, Fritz ended up aiding in and providing false information for the string of murders that were eventually traced back to him.
Fritz was born in 1879 to a particularly grumpy father and a disabled mother who doted on him. He was the youngest of six and loved playing with dolls, wearing dresses, and avoided other boys. Clearly, his gender identity was fluid, a reality far too hard to live in 1920s Germany.
Olle, Fritz’s father, soon shipped him off to military school in the southern German city of Breisach in the hopes of straightening him out. However, he returned within a year after…
