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The Nazi Next Door
The Nazi Next Door
To his neighbours in Britain he was a jolly old gardener. To his neighbours in wartime Belarus, he was a ‘butcher.’ Meet the Shropshire pensioner hiding the darkest of secrets. Show more
In a dusty attic in the Yorkshire hills sits the life’s work of John Kingston, a man who spent decades investigating whether his own stepfather, Stanislaw Chrzanowski, was, in fact, a Nazi war criminal.
Whilst most knew ‘Mr Stan’ as a friendly pensioner, growing fruit for his neighbours and zipping around his village in the Midlands on his mobility scooter, John was convinced he was hiding a dark secret. Unable to shake the terrifying bedtime stories his stepdad told him as a child, John spent his adult life trying to expose the truth.