When Evil Walked the Streets of Düsseldorf: Peter Kürten
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In late 1920s Germany, as the Weimar Republic struggled with poverty and chaos, a sadistic killer began to terrorize Düsseldorf. His name was Peter Kürten, a man whose brutality and perverse fascination with blood earned him the title “The Vampire of Düsseldorf.” Between 1929 and 1930, he murdered and mutilated his victims, spreading fear across the nation—until his shocking confession and execution in 1931 exposed the darkness lurking behind postwar Germany’s fragile façade.
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