From Bronx Beginnings to a Criminal Empire
Before becoming known as Dutch Schultz, the mobster was born as an innocent baby named Arthur Flegenheimer to German-Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx in 1901. Growing up, he started hanging around with the Bronx’s “Frog Hollow Gang,” who gave him the moniker “Dutch Schultz.”
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As one may imagine, the journey to becoming a master criminal is littered with enemies, from law enforcement to other mobsters who clashed with him over territory in the 1930s.