Becoming a bourgeois killer: Peter Kürten, the Vampire of Düsseldorf

Sauter, Michael j (2024) Becoming a bourgeois killer: Peter Kürten, the Vampire of Düsseldorf. German History. ISSN 0266-3554 (In Press)

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Abstract

This short essay uses the life (and death) of Peter Kürten, an infamous Weimar-era serial killer, to show how the category of "Weimar Killer" obscures more than it reveals about crime in twentieth-century Germany.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: serial murder, crime, Weimar Germany, Peter Kürten
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DD Germany
Divisions: Faculty of Arts, Business & Applied Social Science > Department of Arts & Humanities
Depositing User: Michael j Sauter
Date Deposited: 08 Aug 2024 08:40
Last Modified: 08 Aug 2024 08:40
URI: https://oars.uos.ac.uk/id/eprint/3927

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