From June, 1962 through January, 1964, women in the city of Boston lived in fear of the infamous Strangler. Over those 19 months, he committed 13 known murders-crimes that included vicious sexual assaults and bizarre stagings of the victims' bodies. After the largest police investigation in Massachusetts history, handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed and went to prison. Despite DeSalvo's full confession and imprisonment, authorities would never put him on trial for the actual murders. And more t ...
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How did a generation of Germany's best and brightest become mass murderers? How did Gestapo executioners process their atrocities and justify them to themselves? In this episode, Chris and Ryan discuss Hans-Joachim Heuer's chapter Brutalization and Decivilization: On State Police Killing. A diary entry written by a Gestapo officer about his first execution puts us in the shoes of the perpetrator as Heuer helps us understand how normal people become accustomed to extreme violence. Call for Articles: Close Encounters in Irregular and Asymmetrical Warfare http://closeencountersinwar.com/index.php/call-for-papers News from H-net: Emre Sencer's review of Attaturk in the Nazi Imagination, Michael Schneider's review of Work in National Socialism, and an obituary for Yisrael Kristal.
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