Euro Vice & Villains
By Stephen - Your Host
Categories: True Crime
Europe's postcards hide a criminal past. Each week, we pull one file from the continent's darkest archives; the heists, syndicates, and outlaws the history books were too polite to keep. Meet the Ringvereine, Berlin's ring-wearing criminal fraternities. Follow Jacques Mesrine, France's Public Enemy Number One, in and out of prison. Step into Marseille's French Connection, where the Guerini brothers turned morphine into an empire. Every villain has a reason, and every vice has a price. The truth was never in the guidebooks. New episodes weekly.
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Recent episodes
- Ever Faithful: The Brotherhood That Owned Berlin - Part 3 of 3
Part 3 — The Crackdown:Berlin, 1933. The Nazis ban the Ringvereine outright, and by any normal logic the story should end here. It doesn't. In the final part of the trilogy: the crackdown by a state that no longer needed convictions — and how the brotherhoods survived it. The camps and the…
- Ever Faithful: The Brotherhood That Owned Berlin - Part 2 of 3
Part 2 — The Golden Age:Berlin, the 1920s. Hyperinflation, borrowed millions, the wildest nightlife in Europe — and the Ringvereine riding the whole wave. In part two of three: how the ex-convict brotherhoods with the signet rings became the holding company of the golden age. The gambling, the…
- Ever Faithful: The Brotherhood That Owned Berlin - Part 1 of 3
Part 1 - Berlin, the 1890s. A man walks out of prison into a city that wants nothing to do with him — no job, no home, no second chances. Then a stranger slides a signet ring across a bar table, and everything changes. This is the story of the Ringvereine: the ex-convict clubs that began as a…
- Euro Vice & Villains Trailer
Europe has a darker side, and it’s far more entertaining than the guidebooks let on.Euro Vice & Villains is a podcast about the gangsters, thieves, and fraudsters who shaped Europe’s underworld. Each week we dig into a gripping case that’s little known in the English-speaking world, from daring…
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