Wartime Crime — Season 1, Episode 5: The Blackout Killers
Documentary, Crime • 43 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
In Nazi Germany and Britain, the blackouts were a necessity for defending lives and property from enemy bombing but proved a useful tool for predatory criminals, allowing two serial killers who used the absolute darkness to prey upon victims.
About Wartime Crime
While the battlefields of WWII were a stage for acts of heroism, strategic cunning, and horrific atrocities, conditions on the home front seemed more stable. Yet from bombed-out London to occupied France, the war enabled one thing to flourish - crime.