ZDF reportage series "XY history"
XY history: Hard to believe - the Gladow Gang Broadcasting on 04th of September 2024 at 09.00pm on ZDF
At the age of just 17, Werner Gladow leads one of the most notorious Berlin gangster gangs of the post-war period. His role model is the legendary mobster Al Capone. His gang's trademark: tailored suits, white tie and Budapest shoes.
In the devastated city, many people are still suffering from hunger and abject poverty. Food and other goods are in short supply and the black market is flourishing. Berlin is divided into sectors of the four victorious powers, but is to be governed jointly by the victorious powers. However, the conflict between East and West comes to a head as the Cold War begins and cooperation between the police, authorities and courts in the East and West sectors becomes increasingly difficult. The result is a kind of “lawless area”: anyone who murders in the East and escapes to the West is “swallowed up”. Crook Werner Gladow takes advantage of these circumstances.
XY history: The first homicide detective - Ernst Gennat Broadcasting on 05th of September 2024 at 08.15pm on ZDF
Germany's first homicide detective, Ernst Gennat, investigates spectacular cases in 1920s Berlin and revolutionizes criminalistics - with methods that are still tried and tested today.
December 1927: Shortly before Christmas, the well-off 21-year-old butcher's daughter Dora Perske sets off to visit relatives. When the train reaches Friedrichshagen on time an hour later, she is found lying seriously injured in a pool of blood. An ambulance takes her to the Charité hospital, but she dies shortly afterwards.
Ernst Gennat (played by Stephan Grossmann), Germany's first homicide detective, takes up the investigation - always at his side: secretary Trudchen Steiner (played by Marina Lötschert). The ingenious investigator will later convict the perpetrator through his special form of interrogation.
Gennat is still considered a luminary in German criminal history today. Until the 1920s, there was no homicide department, no interrogation protocols and no autopsy reports in police work. As an inspector, the so-called Buddha of Alex, who was not only a real heavyweight in his profession, streamlined and structured the investigation methods and achieved an above-average clearance rate.
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