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I could nearly do a whole blog on how inappropriate this evil man’s name Gottlieb—translates to God Love. I doubt that very much.
Gottlieb Hering was involved in the T4 program and later on, was the second and last commandant of the Belzec Extermination Camp.
After Action T4, Hering was posted briefly to the Sicherheitsdienst in Prague in June 1942 and...
Karl Rauscher was a member of part of the Luftwaffe. Specifically of the so-called Werftabteilung; charged with repair and scrapping of downed aircraft.
During the war years he was stationed in a large number of European countries. He made a photographic report of his long journey; a special collection of photos of up to 1500 images.
Rauscher photograp...
I am always fascinated by the popularity of serial killers. Everyone will know at least the name of one serial killer. The one thing that isn’t clear is who actually first coined the term serial killer, it is either, FBI Special agent Robert Ressler, criminologist Ernst Gennat or journalist John Brophy.
One might be forgiven to think that Jack the Ripper was th...
The below story was brought to my attention by a friend, he also published it in a local Athens-Alabama newspaper.
THE OWL’S EYE
Equal justice under the law
Some may believe an event both a continent and 76 years away of little interest to our Athens- Limestone County. Let this flight of recollection help. We just commemorated the liberation ...
Few criminal cases in twentieth-century Japan have generated as much fascination, discomfort, artistic interpretation, and cultural analysis as the story of Sada Abe. Even today, nearly a century after the murder that made her infamous, her name continues to provoke intense reactions. To some, she is remembered as a sensational criminal whose obsession culminated in one o...