"Life has recently become cheap" : murder, moral panic, and the uncertainty of normality -- "The untrained gaze of the layperson" : the murder investigation -- "She preferred staying with him to dying of hunger" : the Carl Grossmann sexual murder case -- "A children's paradise" : crime and community in West Berlin -- "What does Langu mean?" : solving murder and dissolving community in Prenzlauer Berg -- "A marriage no better and no worse than many others" : domestic homicide, gender, and everyday violence -- Conclusion: Violence and normality in Weimar Germany
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