June 26, 1912 - Willi Kimmritz
Operating in the unsettled postwar landscape around Berlin, Kimmritz exploited the vulnerability of isolated areas and a society still struggling to reconstitute order. His crimes across the Brandenburg forests — spanning robbery, rape, and murder — unfolded over roughly two years before his capture and eventual execution. The four killings and thirteen rapes for which he was held responsible placed him among the more prolific violent offenders in immediate postwar Germany.
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Willi Kimmritz (26 June 1912 – 26 July 1950), known as The Horror of the Brandenburg Forest (German: Der Schrecken der brandenburgischen Wälder), was a German serial killer, rapist and burglar who robbed and raped women in the forested areas surrounding Berlin from 1946 to 1948, killing four. He was convicted for 13 rapes and three of the murders, sentenced to death and executed in 1950.
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