My mom would say "What is this world coming to. I tell her, the world has always been like this. Since the internet, now we see what's happening around the world. RIP Mom
After getting into reading history, I have always thought people are always the same. Technology, fashion changes but human nature is pretty much what it is 🤷🏻♀️
When I worked in a nursing home here in Germany, I had an old lady whose surname was also Haarmann. And one day another old lady was talking cr*p about Frau Haarmann and said something like "She should be ashamed with a name like that." I was like what the hell, this was SO long ago! They were in their 90s but still...let it go 😂
What isolated and tragic lives his victims lived. They appeared to be so disposable by society that even the number of his victims is unknown. So, so sad.
It surprises me how the authorities never had an issue with the fact he broke out of the institution, ran away and then came back and resumed his "normal" life... Even letting him be an informant which would have meant they were paying him!
Yeah... there seemed to be some pretty poor work on behalf of the authorities all over this story. Skulls end up floating in the river and they're like "Ugh *fine* we'll investigate, I *guess*"
The fact he was an informant.. They needed him so looked the other way They knew he was killing those boys but they were throw aways and he was making their way of life easier by snitching.😊
The german movie "Der Totmacher(1995)" brilliantly depicts Haarmann talking to a police psychiatrist in 1924. Large parts of the moviescipt are direct copies of the original transcipt. It is hard to came by, but findable and very much worth it. It shows just how human a beast can be - or how beastly a human can be. As well as how brilliant and ahead of his time the psichiatrist was.
This is more proof that it's important to be forgiving, moral, and level with children growing up. They only know what you teach them. It's a very fine line between good and evil sometimes. Children have greatness in them, it's up to us to make sure that greatness doesn't go to the wrong direction by the things we do!
I absolutely agree. i can imagine that growing up in imperial Germany between the wars wasn't that great though. Millions of men have died, economy was nonexistent, many may have concluded that their kids were better off on their own, just like it was with my great grandfather. He volunteered 15 years old, got shot in France and survived. He became a writer later on.
@@jdsteppenzyde Children do NOT have greatness in them!! Children have the curses or blessings in them that is inherited from their parents and generations before them!!
Just for further info. Haarmann‘s complete head was kept for years in the forensic laboratory here in the city of Göttingen where I live. A friend of mine who worked there offered to show it to me. I told her that I had to decline her offer because I really didn’t want to get nightmares from watching it. His head was burnt to ashes in 2015. Have a good day everyone.
Yes, I know and I have seen them. But seeing it in person would be much harder, I think. 😀 There exists a German film called Der Totmacher about his interrogation by psychiatrists which also happened in this city. Pretty good. It shows how simple minded he was. If you can get your hands on it, give it a try.
I know from medical school just how closely swine anatomy is to human. I’ve also read articles about cannibals referring to humans as “Long Pig”, so the detective may have had a head cold but I wouldn’t have been too quick to dismiss his observation of the meat as obviously pork rinds! Admittedly I like pork especially bacon but I have no desire to discover just how similar it tastes to human, I’m satisfied to take the cannibals at their word and leave it at that, thank you very much! Another interesting episode, your channel about old crimes is fascinating! Sincerely, Doc PS, there are 206 bones in the human body, if only 500 remains were discovered, that is an alarmingly large amount unaccounted for, which causes me to wonder if 20 murders is too conservative! Sounds like his room wasn’t just a murder scene it was an abattoir…that gives me the willies!
When the conquistadors came to the Aztecs, they saw they were cannibals and offered them pigs instead to which the Aztecs said it taste the same. I always thought that as disturbing and with that news report about hot dogs and sausage having been tested and found trace amounts of human dna I’ve stop eating pork and processed meat altogether.
@@tribequest9 Okay!! And now, what do you think my attitude is going be about hotdogs and pork products! Exactly, you’ve kinda put me off them! It’s chicken from now own. I’ll keep a good count on my neighborhood cats! If they decline, I’ll eat fish. Yuk! Human DNA in hotdogs? Really? That’s disgusting!
The "Haarmann-Lied" (the childrens song you've quotet) was indeed very popluar even in my childhood in the 1990s. In fact it was the first song ever I could sing by heart. Kind of reminds me of the little song about Lizzy Borden or Bridget Cleary. Maybe creating such songs is a way to deal with very real horrors.
is it the same poem the kids are chanting at the beginning of the movie "m"?
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@@mta4562 Uh... It's been a while since I watched the movie. Can't remember right now. If you still remember it just google "Haarmann Lied" and several videos will show up. It was quiet a popular song and there are even modern recordings of it.
The text of this song: Warte , warte nur ein Weilchen, dann kommt Haarmann mit den Hackebeilchen.......
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@@sabine4759 "Warte, warte nur ein Weilchen, dann kommt er auch zu dir, der Haarmann mit dem Hackebeilchen und macht Leberwurst aus dir..." - That's the very thing. (First song I could sing by heart as a child^^" )
Saw a movie about him once called The Deathmaker (Der Totmacher) which was brilliantly acted. No awful scenes, just the interviews with the psychologist which were said to follow the real transcripts
Hello Paul! What a gruesome story of this man! May all his victims Rest In Peace. I kept waiting for them to discover that he’d sold the meat of his victims as ground pork, but I guess they didn’t think so. I love your videos and your voice and personality! Right then! Take care, blessings always! ❤️✝️
They probably just could not prove he sold the victims as food. He admitted to eating some of them himself, kind of, by saying he felt overwhelmed to take a bite out of them.
This case reminded me a little of Karl Denke. But in his case it was proven that he actually sold human meat as pork, etc. Local factory even had difficulties because when people learned about this at Denke's trial they believed the factory bought meat from him. Anyway, great video. You have great storytelling skills.
Thank you for covering this case. I came to hear about it as a child, because my father used to sing the song written by W&W Kollo "warte, warte nur ein Weilchen..."
I wish I could say how weird it is that the police didn't really take this seriously and actively tried to avoid solving these crimes, but it's too depressing and too common.
Great job on the German pronunciations! The "ch" and other specialities are hard for English natives but always appreciated. Shows the amount of work going into the story
I thought that the advent calander with him in the centre rubbing his cleaver was a bit cheeky.......And they kept him going in later ones after death threats....bloody hell
My family had their roots in and around Hannover and it's still believed that "butcher Haarmann" was a cannibal as well, but not only eating the flesh of those he killed but also processing their meat like any other product, making mostly sausages though. Human flesh tastes different than pork and beef and the seasoning would hide the foreign taste.
I am from Hannover and I've grown up with this terrible and fascinating story. It is really interesting, that it is known outside of Germany. Thanks for sharing this gruesome part of my hometowns history!
According to contemporary accounts published in British newspapers, Haarmann left a defiant final statement that included instructions for his headstone. He said that his last meal would be coffee, hard cheese and a cigar, after which he would curse his father and go to his execution as if it was his wedding. (My source for that is "Man Bites Man: The Scrapbook Of An Edwardian Eccentric" by George Ives, a compilation of news clipping from the first half of the 20th century and fascinating in its own right.)
Interesting that in both this case and the Dahmer case, the authorities completely bungled it even with giant red flags waving under their noses. More lives were lost due to this incompetence.
Hello Paul you and your crew did a another sensational job as always with so many interesting facts and great details keep up the sensational job my friend's
Interesting story, I hate that some parents thought they needed to ‘toughen up’ their sons. Epilepsy, mistreatment, and mental illness didn’t do anything to help him. I do not excuse any of it. The authorities should have hospitalized him and kept him there.
Exactly. He was most likely just a normal gay boy, possibly a crossdresser or even trans, and just wanted to enjoy his life with lovely dresses and girly things he saw all the girls his age were doing too. There's no doubt that the military school abused him, because they're all abusive and always has been. Instead of letting him be himself (or herself, of course), they would have forced horrible tortures on him as a way to "toughen him up." Child abuse like this always ends up destroying the child to the point of murder. While his crimes are horrible and he deserved punishment, the adults in his life who forced torture onto him deserved worse than what he got. They're the ones who made him what he became, and they're the ones who truly murdered all those boys and men. He was an unfortunate child who had his dreams of just enjoying life crushed early, and of course turned cruel from it
@@mcmd2009 Most likely, actually. But the abuse he faced only made him want to abuse others. That's what happens to people who suffer trauma, regardless of sexuality. Even hetero people who have horrible childhoods end up growing up to harm others usually
@@ddylla85 Nope. I have a degree to back up everything I've said. Abused children abuse others, because abuse is normal to them. It takes years of therapy to weed out the abusive mentality.
Except you know that Hannibal Lector is a fictional character, so you are comparing him to actor Anthony Hopkins. His only resemblance to Adolph Hitler is the 'toothbrush' mustache. So this is hindsight extrapolatation, comparing the appearance of a man who was found to be evil to the appearance of an evil man based on an insignificant physical similarity and an actor who played a fictional evil man. Rethink your processes, this is basic think taken to an extreme.
Not sure what that means, but if it's that I am intellectually honest and not into saying innaccurate things that I think make me look attractive to others, you're dead on.
Thank you! I love all of your videos, I've caught up on all of them and wait eagerly for a new ones. They really brighten my day. (I watch while washing the dishes) Thank you for all that you do! Would you consider doing a video on Robert Hansen aka "The Butcher Baker"? I'd love to hear all you have to say about him. -Jess
Hi Paul, not normally one to comment or criticise, but you have twice used the word "preceding" where the opposite ("succeeding") is meant. Horrible violent death and depravity, especially so well researched and presented, I quite enjoy. That misused word, though, hit like a cattle prod.
2:39 Such beautiful country. I couldn't imagine seeing that everyday and I live in the mountains of North Carolina USA. These mountains are beautiful too but very old and more rounded off. But the foliage we have in the fall is gorgeous. And a lot more accessible because they aren't so high but you can drive up in elevation to get to the Appalachian trail which goes forever through several states. The mountains on this program are picture perfect scenery. .
I'm really getting into your videos. They're absolutely captivating and very well done. A HUGE twist, though.......This is the second channel that I watch that has Paul Brodie as the main man.
The narration is the creepiest of all. The calm tone and pacing feels more at home in a child's story, but it is a story that no child should ever hear.
I've found a lot of serial killers, like Haarmann and John Wayne Gacy, have abusive childhoods. It is definitely no excuse for committing such horrible crimes, but you have to wonder what the knock-on effects of it are.
Always interesting . I searched the channel and was surprised to see that the case of the American cannibal weird-o Albert Fish has never been presented here.
First, I could listen to you talk all day. All month. Read a soup can label, stop sign, whatever😊. I really enjoy your channel and this story about Fritz, especially. There is so much to be said for people who turn into monsters usually having a monstrous lifethemselves. Does that excuse their actions? Certainly not.i just feel more and more sad for the things the human race does to its own, individually and collectively.
Well documented. I am just always amazed and saddened when I hear that police swept information under the rug or didn't believe someone who they deemed to be less believable. The women knew. Maybe if they had been given the respect they deserved several other men and boys would not have died in 1923 and 1924 before he was caught.
"Warte, warte nur ein Weilchen, bald kommt Haarmann auch zu dir/mit dem kleinen Hackebeilchen, macht er Hackefleisch aus dir./Aus den Ärmen macht er Sülze, aus dem Hintern macht er Speck/aus den Därmen macht er Würste, und den Rest, den schmeisst er weg"
