Episode 318 - The Konitz Affair - Murder and Antisemitism in 1900 Germany

Laura, Arthur and Dean gather round the mic to discuss the 1900 Unsolved Murder and Dismembertment of Ernst Winter in 1900 in the Prussian City of Konitz (these days, the modern Polish city of Chojinice). The crime itself was never solved. In a town with German officials and a culturally Polish populace with an influx of Jewish residents and no modern investigation techniques, a solution was by and large impossible. What occurred in the place of solution was blame based on nothing at all, antisemitic accusations, fear and riots. We discuss how all this came to pass AND how these things still linger and there for still matter now over 125 years later in this, unsolved mystery, can't we all just get along episode of the Family Plot Podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices