It was exactly a year ago, when the Hanover tourist board issued this Advent calendar for children. Nothing really special about it, if not one figure depicted behind a tree at the left of the image.
Haarmann had already appeared in a similar calendar the year before, but nobody took notice.
The 2007 calendar sold very well - the whole run of 20 000 copies was out before Christmas.
Hans-Christian Nolte, head of the Hanover tourist board defended the idea of including the mass murderer in the calendar, saying: "He is part of our history. Even on guided tours the serial killer's story is told".
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The killer disappeared from the 2008 version of the calendar.
2 comments:
It's hard to tell his face. He looks like a normal guy holding a piece of newspaper on street.
The interesting part is that when questioned and criticised by others to put this notorious figure in their calendar, Hans-Christian Nolte and his company actually admited it and they did it on purpose. They want their homage secret and overt at the same time - maybe like the writer of this blog, who writes and advertises for this site but without leaving his real name on this blog:) Ha!
I'm just kidding. Hope you don't mind.
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