A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin

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by Scott Andrew Selby


  catching the killer, importance, 145, 147

  confession by Ogorzow, 220, 221–227, 256

  connecting the garden and train attacks, 132–142, 148–150, 213, 226

  dangerous gambit (trap set) by, 192–199

  decoys used by, 151–156, 164–165, 170

  detectives on train stations, 151, 154, 157, 184

  female police used as decoys, 151–156, 164

  file of Ogorzow and, 209–211

  firearms (none) for female police decoys, 152, 153, 164

  Gestapo vs. Kripo, 116, 117

  Goebbels and, 174, 176, 177–178

  health conditions of killer as possible motive, 137

  Heydrich and, 120, 127, 164, 183, 223

  Himmler and, 164, 183

  job security (lack of), 16, 119–120

  male police in drag used as decoys, 164–165, 170

  motive of crimes, 135–138

  Nazi Party and, 14–15, 16, 113, 119–120

  Nebe and, 119, 120, 127, 133, 183, 223

  newspaper article permission, 184–187

  police monitoring (ceasing of), rumor spread by, 194–195, 198

  police resources expended on case, 192, 194, 195, 222

  promotion of, 252

  rationalization of Koziol’s murder, 198–199

  roundups of train riders at key times, 184

  Schlesische Bahn route monitored by, 150–155, 157

  secrecy about S-Bahn Murderer, 108, 123, 124, 125–126, 127, 174, 176, 177, 192, 227, 249

  sexual motive possibility, 137–139

  skulls of victims used in interrogation, 221–222, 224, 225

  SS member, 252, 253

  SS member as suspect, 162–164

  uniform of attacker focus, 161–164

  volunteer program authorized by Goebbels, 176–182, 189

  Lüdtke, Wilhelm (personal)

  Amalia (Wilhelm’s wife), 120

  background of, 14–16, 112–113, 120–121, 252

  death of, 256

  Gerda (Wilhelm’s daughter), 120

  Lüdtke, Wilhelm (post WWII)

  BECRIPPLE-2 (cryptonym), 255–256

  BESMIRCH-2 (cryptonym), 255

  CAUTERY-4 (cryptonym), 255

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) undercover asset, 254–256

  denazification process, 253, 254

  “Ernst Hartmann,” 255

  Hauptsturmführer, 252, 253, 260

  pension, 254, 255

  private detective, 254

  retirement, 253–254

  uniform worn by, 252, 253, 260

  Luxembourg, Germany, xx, 48, 49

  MacDonald, J. M., 30

  “MacDonald Triad,” 30

  Maginot Line, 48

  male police in drag used as decoys, 164–165, 170

  maps

  Berlin S-Bahn (1939), xiv–xv

  murders and attempted murders, xiii

  Marenholtz, Freiherr von (Dr.), 241, 243

  masturbation, 241

  Mathes, Paul, 62

  Matuska, Szilveszter, 137

  medical excuses for murders, 232–235

  Meier, Hermann, 36. See also Göring, Hermann (Reichsmarschall)

  membership pin worn by Nazis, 31

  mental illness (insanity) defense, 233–234, 239–242, 243

  minor crimes confession by Ogorzow, 217–218

  Minsk, Belarus, 260, 261

  Moabit, Berlin, 236

  mobile killing squads on the Eastern Front (Einsatzgruppen), 114, 257, 258, 260

  modus operandi, serial killers, 226

  Mohr, Lina, 13. See also Budzinski, Lina

  “moral offenses,” 238–239

  Moravia, 258

  motive of crimes, 109, 135–138

  Muntowo, East Prussia, 29–30

  murders and attempted murders (map), xiii. See also garden area murders; S-Bahn Murderer

  murders handled by Kripo, 14, 71, 97, 112

  “My Confession” (Ditter, A.), 80

  National Institute of Justice, 203–204

  National Socialist German Workers’ Party. See Nazi Germany

  National Socialist People’s Welfare organization (Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt), 70

  Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. See NSDAP

  Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (National Socialist People’s Welfare organization), 70

  Nauen, Germany, 210

  Nazi Germany. See also Blackout Regulation; garden area murders; Gestapo; Goebbels, Paul Joseph; Heydrich, Reinhard; Himmler, Heinrich; Hitler, Adolf; Kripo; Nebe, Arthur; S-Bahn; S-Bahn Murderer

  air raid warning system, 36, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 63–65

  amnesty for imprisoned Nazis, 210, 236–237

  Aryan ideal, 115, 143

  attention of authorities, avoiding, 79

  authoritarian state, 126

  bill for execution sent to Ogorzow’s wife, 248

  Blitz, xx, 36

  child welfare, 69–70, 71

  Christmas celebration, 165

  chronology of background events (August 1939–July 1941), xix–xx

  control of information in, 108, 123, 124, 125–126, 127, 174, 176, 177, 227

  curfews in, 144, 147

  death sentence, 205, 223, 228, 229, 238, 239, 245, 246

  detective novels based on German Police, 251–252

  dictatorship, 113

  dissection of Ogorzow, 248

  draft, 76

  eugenics belief, 137

  expansion by, xix–xx, 48–49

  Female Criminal Police (Weiblichen Kriminalpolizei), 152, 153

  food rations in, 144

  foreign laborers in, 145–147

  gasoline rationing in, 52, 201

  guillotine used in executions, 62, 223, 246–247, 258

  Holocaust, xx, 114, 116

  homosexuals persecuted by, 32, 165

  informants in, 88

  Jews persecuted in, xx, 32–33, 65, 103, 114, 116, 124, 143–145, 211, 228

  labor deployment in, 144–145, 146

  London bombed by, xx, 36

  Lüdtke and Nazi Party, 14–15, 16, 113, 119–120

  membership pin worn by Nazis, 31

  mobile killing squads on the Eastern Front (Einsatzgruppen), 114, 257, 258, 260

  “moral offenses,” 238–239

  National Socialist People’s Welfare organization (Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt), 70

  Nazi Germany (cont.)

  Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht), 33, 103, 114

  “Night of the Long Knives, The,” 32, 114

  Ogorzow as party member, 31–33, 34, 103, 113, 178, 208, 209, 220, 222, 224, 228, 234, 236, 244

  police feared in, 13

  power consolidated by, 16, 31, 62–63, 118, 210

  propaganda posters, 43–44, 91

  purse-snatcher case, 229

  radio navigation used by, 37

  rationing in, 52, 201–202

  Reich Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptam, RHSA), 113–114, 115–119, 152, 190

  rent in, 75, 76

  rights (none) of public, 216

  SA (Sturmabteilung), 31–33, 34, 102, 103, 154, 165, 178, 208, 209, 220, 222, 224, 228, 234, 244

  Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei, SiPo), 33, 72–73, 113–114, 118

  special courts, 229, 236–238, 239, 241–244, 250

  swastikas, 31, 50, 72, 163

  utopian ideology, 124

  V-persons (Vertrauensleute), 88

  women laborers, 90–91, 121–123, 126, 127, 140, 145, 174, 228

 
Nebe, Arthur (Head of the Kripo, RHSA Amt 5), xxii

  background of, 117–119

  detective novels based on German Police, 251

  execution of, 257–258

  gassing people developed by, 257

  Gestapo vs. Kripo, 116

  hatred of superiors, 118, 119

  Lüdtke and, 119, 120, 127, 133, 183, 223

  mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen), 257, 260

  plot to kill Hitler (Operation Valkyrie), 118, 245, 258

  post S-Bahn murders, 257–258

  racial theory of crime, 125

  Nerthus (German fertility goddess), 18

  Netherlands, xx, 48, 49

  Neukölln, Berlin, 121

  Neumann (Deputy Prosecutor), 238

  newspaper article permission, Lüdtke, 184–187

  news release sent out by Kripo, 84–86

  New York Prosecutors Training Institute, 57

  New Zealand, xix

  Nickell, Stella (killer), 136

  Niederkirchnerstrasse, Berlin, 119

  Nieswandt, Gertrud (attempted murder victim), xiii, xxi, 22–24, 25, 219–220

  Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht), 33, 103, 114

  “Night of the Long Knives, The,” 32, 114

  nighttime bombing, 37, 63

  nonaggression pact between Germany and Soviet Union, xix, 18, 209

  Normandy, xix

  Norway, 48

  nose (disfigured), Ogorzow, 2, 29, 149, 210, 219–220, 241

  NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), 31. See also Nazi Germany

  NSV (National Socialist People’s Welfare organization), 70

  Nuremberg Trials, 257

  Ogorzow, Paul (personal)

  affairs by, 29, 195–196, 213, 232

  appearance of, 1–2, 3, 29, 149, 210, 219–220, 241

  background of, 28–34

  childhood of, 2, 29–31

  family of, 28–29, 69, 97, 122, 131, 193, 208, 209, 235

  gardening love of, 6, 29

  Gertrude (Paul’s wife), 28, 29, 65, 235, 239, 248

  home of, xiii, 3, 5, 28, 68, 69, 97, 122, 211–212

  Johann Ogorzow’s adoption of, 30

  manual laborer, 3, 31, 49–50

  Marie (Paul’s mother), 30

  nose (disfigured), 2, 29, 149, 210, 219–220, 241

  sexually transmitted diseases contracted by, 232–233, 234, 235, 241

  social situations handled easily by, 93

  Ogorzow, Paul (serial killer), xxii, 1–4. See also garden area murders; S-Bahn; S-Bahn Murderer

  attack method developing by, 17, 49, 89, 90, 102–103, 129, 165, 169

  “auxiliary signalman,” 52–53, 78, 158, 160

  blackouts used by, 7–8, 9, 13, 20, 22, 34, 69, 70, 81, 122–123, 126, 141, 149, 150, 154, 163, 166, 174, 187, 229, 235

  blows to the head of victims, 4, 11–12, 24, 25–27

  blunt object (iron rod, rebar) used by, 102, 103–104, 107, 110, 111, 130, 166, 170, 171, 179, 180, 197

  blunt object (lead cable) used by, 26, 89, 90, 94, 95, 96, 98–99, 108, 110, 138, 225–226

  bodies of victims, never concealing, 197

  coward, 94

  descriptions of, 82, 85–86, 98, 140, 145, 149, 161, 175, 186, 188, 209, 219–220

  desensitized to violence, 32, 34, 103

  “Do not cry yet,” 21–24

  early Sunday morning attacks, 165–166, 169, 170–173, 184

  escalation of violence by, 9–11, 18, 26, 210

  fear of getting caught, 17–18, 20, 21, 24, 102, 103, 104–105, 126, 140

  female police decoy and, 153–156

  first death on the train, 101–105

  first early Sunday morning attack, 165–166, 169

  first murder, 67–88

  first S-Bahn attack, 48–60

  fists attacks by, 17, 26, 27

  flashlight harassment by, 7–9, 18, 21, 25, 138, 150, 217, 218

  footrace, 17–20

  gossip source of information on police investigation, 154, 157, 165

  ground, killing on the, 128–131

  harassment of women by, 7–9, 18, 21, 25, 138, 150, 217, 218

  hat worn by, 161, 163

  hunting for victims, 1–2, 4, 11, 21–22, 34, 102, 150, 153–154, 156, 157, 168, 195–196, 226

  inside knowledge of police investigation into murders, 154, 157, 165, 192–193, 194

  jumping from a moving train, 155, 156

  knife attacks by, 4, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 69, 73, 74, 89, 90, 111, 141, 219

  leaving work unnoticed, ability to, 157–160, 207–208, 209, 211, 213

  Nazi Party member, 31–33, 34, 103, 113, 178, 208, 209, 220, 222, 224, 228, 234, 236, 244

  pardon of, 210, 236

  petite women selected to attack by, 196

  practice makes perfect, 171

  railroad employee, xiii, xxii, 2, 7, 31, 49–50, 52–53, 54, 55, 79, 157–160, 193, 195, 209

  SA (Sturmabteilung), 31–33, 34, 103, 154, 165, 178, 208, 209, 220, 222, 224, 228, 234, 244

  second-class compartments for killing, 55, 56, 57, 91, 92, 93, 98, 102, 103, 110, 150, 152, 153, 166, 171, 173, 180, 182, 187–188

  security measures vs., 157

  sexual assaults by, 10, 24, 26–27, 59, 96, 104, 128, 130, 133, 135, 156, 197, 234

  silence during attacks, 12, 13, 20, 26, 146

  sleeping at the S-Bahn station, 131, 160

  souvenirs of kills, never keeping, 168

  stealing from victims, never, 58, 167–168

  strangulation by, 4, 17, 57, 68–69, 71, 74, 101, 107, 141, 172

  switch from normal to killer behavior, 68

  throwing victims from a moving train, 59–60, 95–96, 102, 103, 104, 105, 108, 110, 111, 128, 156, 161, 166, 167, 171, 173, 181, 197

  time period between attacks, 128, 133, 138, 139, 142, 172

  uniform worn by, 2, 49, 55, 57, 92, 93, 102, 141, 145, 149–150, 156, 157, 161, 170, 175, 186, 188–189, 197

  volunteer duty, 178–180, 189

  waiting to commit more attacks, 192, 193, 195

  workplace of, xiii, xxii, 2, 7, 31, 49–50, 52–53, 54, 55, 79, 157–160, 193, 195, 209

  yelling harassment by, 9, 18, 21, 138, 150

  Ogorzow, Paul (serial killer in custody), 207–244

  alibis, 158, 160, 190, 208, 209, 213

  bicycle with dynamo light, 217

  break-in committed by, 210

  climbing a fence to ditch work, 207–208, 209, 211, 213

  confession by, 220, 221–227, 256

  excuses for murders, 228, 232–235

  execution of, 245–248, 249

  eyewitness identification of Ogorzow, 218–220

  head injuries (excuse for murders), 233–234, 241

  home searched by Kripo, 211–212

  Jewish doctor’s intentional bad treatment of his gonorrhea (excuse for murders), 232–233, 234, 241, 244

  lies told in his confession, 224–225

  medical excuses for murders, 232–235

  mental illness (insanity) defense, 233–234, 239–242, 243

  minor crimes confession by, 217–218

  questioning by Kripo, 209–220

  returning to scene of crime, 226

  revoking of Nazi Party membership, 236

  stomach condition (excuse for murders), 234

  trial of, 235, 236–244

  women blamed for murders, 235

  Olympics (Berlin, 1936) and S-Bahn, 51

  “Omanzow,” 251–252. See also Ogorzow, Paul

  Operation Barbarossa, 194

  Operation BECRIPPLE (CIA), 255–256

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  Operation CAUTERY (CIA), 255

  Operation Valkyrie (plot to kill Hitler), 118, 245, 258

  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei), 71, 97, 114

  Ordnungspolizei (Orpo), 71, 97, 114

  Orpo (Ordnungspolizei), 71, 97, 114

  Ostkreuz S-Bahn station, xiii, xv, xvii

  oxygen deprivation, 57

  Pansch, Johanna (Lüdtke’s mother), 15

  Papen, Franz von (Vice-Chancellor), 237

  pardoning of violent criminals by Hitler, 210, 236–237

  pattern evidence, 203–204

  Peeping Tom caught by Kripo, 205

  petite women selected to attack by Ogorzow, 196

  Pfeiffer, Christian, 127

  photopigments, 8–9

  pigeons dispute between neighbors, 77, 78, 87

  plain clothes worn by Kripo, 252

  plot to kill Hitler (Operation Valkyrie), 118, 245, 258

  Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, 245–246, 258

  “podiatrist” (Fußarzt), 201

  Poland, xix, 18, 30, 33, 40, 41, 42, 43, 48, 51, 146, 202, 232

  Polenski, Kurt, 246

  police custody of Ogorzow, 207–236

  police feared in Nazi Germany, 13

  police monitoring (ceasing of), rumor spread by Lüdtke, 194–195, 198

  police resources expended on case, 192, 194, 195, 222

  political upheaval in Germany, 15–16

  Pomerania, Germany, 15

  Potsdam, Germany, 74

  power consolidated by Nazi Germany, 16, 31, 62–63, 118, 210

  practice makes perfect, 171

  Prague, Czech Republic, 252

  “Preparation of Blackout Measures,” Blackout Regulation, 40–41

  press release following Ogorzow’s execution, 249–250

  preußischen Landeskriminalamt (Prussian Criminal Police), 116

  Prinz Albrecht Strasse, Berlin, 119

  Prinz-Heinrich-Strasse, Berlin, 129

  Project BECRIPPLE (CIA), 255

  propaganda posters, Nazi Germany, 43–44, 91

  propaganda used by Goebbels, 174

  Prussian Criminal Police (preußischen Landeskriminalamt), 116

  psychiatrist. See Weimann, Waldemar

  “psychopathological triad,” 30

  publicity ban about S-Bahn Murderer, 108, 123, 124, 125–126, 127, 174, 176, 177, 192, 227, 249

  purse-snatcher case, Nazi Germany, 229

  push to catch the killer, 183–191, 222–223

  pyromania (setting fires), serial killers, 30

  “quarter trains,” S-Bahn, 56

  questioning of Ogorzow by Kripo, 209–220

  quitting (rare), serial killers, 206

 

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