April 3, 1908 - Bruno Lüdke
What makes Lüdke's case historically significant is not only the scale of the crimes attributed to him, but the degree to which the Nazi justice system shaped — and arguably distorted — the record around him. Declared legally incompetent and subjected to medical experiments rather than trial, he died in a Vienna hospital at the hands of the state before any of the attributed killings were tested in court. Subsequent investigations have cast serious doubt on whether he committed all, or even most, of the 51 murders police assigned to him, raising questions about coerced confession and institutional convenience that remain unresolved.
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Bruno Lüdke (3 April 1908 – 8 April 1944) was a German alleged serial killer. Police officials connected him to at least 51 murder victims, mainly women, killed in a 15-year period, which began in 1928 and ended with his arrest in 1943. He was killed during the Nazi regime without a trial. It is now considered very likely that he did not commit any of the crimes he is accused of.
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