A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin

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by Scott Andrew Selby

racial theory of crime, 124–125, 143–147, 211

  radio navigation used by Nazi Germany, 37

  Rahnsdorf S-Bahn station, xv, xvii, 53, 151, 166

  railroad. See S-Bahn

  rationalization of Koziol’s murder by Lüdtke, 198–199

  rationing in Nazi Germany, 52, 201–202

  rebar used by Ogorzow, 102, 103–104, 107, 110, 111, 130, 166, 170, 171, 179, 180, 197

  REDCAP program (CIA), 255

  red herring (shoes), 200–206, 222–223

  “Regulation Against Folk Pests” (Volksschädlingsverordnung), 45–46

  Reich Chancellery bunker, 259–260

  Reich Criminal Investigation Department newspaper (Deutches Kriminalpolizeiblatt), 83–84

  Reich Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptam, RHSA), 113–114, 115–119, 152, 190. See also Heydrich, Reinhard; Himmler, Heinrich; Kripo; Nebe, Arthur

  Reichsbahn (German National Railroad Company), 49–50, 54, 55, 56, 78, 150, 163, 262. See also S-Bahn

  Reichskriminalpolizeiamt (RKPA), 116

  Reichssicherheitshauptam. See Reich Main Security Office

  Reinhardtstraße, 63

  rent in Nazi Germany, 75, 76

  returning to scene of crimes, serial killers, 168, 226

  revoking of Ogorzow’s Nazi Party membership, 236

  rewards offered by Kripo, 81–83, 87, 88, 127, 140, 174, 185, 187

  Rheydt, Germany, 123

  Rhineland-Palatinate, 260

  RHSA. See Reich Main Security Office

  rights (none) of public, Nazi Germany, 216

  “Ringbahn,” 51–52, 54

  Ritschel, Magda (Goebbels’s wife), 123, 259

  RKPA (Reichskriminalpolizeiamt), 116

  Roosevelt, Franklin (U.S. President), 38

  Rosie the Riveter, 91

  roundups of train riders at key times, 184

  Royal Air Force (British), 43

  Ruhr region, Germany, 36

  Rummelsburg S-Bahn station, xiii, xv, xvii, 25, 52–53, 67, 78, 99, 106, 129, 141, 150, 151, 155, 158, 159, 172, 175, 180, 183, 185, 196, 208

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

  Saga, Marie (Ogorzow’s mother), 30

  Saga, Paul, 30. See also Ogorzow, Paul

  Salamander, 201

  S-Bahn, 19. See also S-Bahn Murderer

  air raid warning system, 63–64

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

  “city fast train” (Stadtschnell-bahn), 50–51

  color scheme used by, 47, 50

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

  control cars, 153

  doors on, 57, 58, 93–94

  East German control of, 262

  electric traction motor sounds, 129–130

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

  engine cars, 153

  first-class transport, 56

  garden area murders vs., 34, 111, 156, 195

  German National Railroad Company (Reichsbahn), 49–50, 54, 55, 56, 78, 150, 163, 262

  history of, 50–52

  logo, 50

  maps (1939), xiii, xiv–xv

  Olympics (Berlin, 1936) and, 51

  personnel interviewed by Kripo, 189, 207–208, 209

  “quarter trains,” 56

  Ringbahn (inner area of Berlin), 54

  second-class compartments, 54, 55, 56, 92, 122, 126, 153, 175, 185, 186, 187

  S-Bahn (cont.)

  sounds made by, 129–130

  stations on key route, xiii, xvii, 34, 35

  telephony cable laid alongside parts of, 99

  third-class compartments, 54, 55, 91–92, 152, 153

  third rail and electroshock hazard, 166–167

  tickets and fines, 53–55

  timetable, 59–60, 101–102, 104

  tracks (expansion joints) sound, 129

  trailer cars, 153

  train switching technology, 159

  “Vnk” (“Junction to Küstrin”), 158, 159–160, 208, 262

  weekly/monthly passes, 54

  women laborers’ fear of, 121–123, 127, 174

  S-Bahn Murderer, 60, 226, 251. See also Bendorf, Elizabeth (attempted murder victim); Büngener, Elisabeth (murder victim); Ebauer, Hedwig (murder victim); Franke, Elfriede (murder victim); garden area murders; Kargoll, Gerda (attempted murder victim); Ogorzow, Paul; S-Bahn; Siewert, Gertrud (murder victim); Voigt, Johanna (murder victim)

  schizophrenia, 137

  Schlesische Bahn route monitoring, 150–155, 157

  Schnellbahn (“fast train”), 51

  Schollain, Helene, 87–88

  Schöneberger Straße, 63

  Schuhmacher, Julie (attempted murder victim), xiii, xxi, 25–27, 89, 110

  Schutzstaffel. See SS

  Schwarzbach, Wilhelm, 232–233

  SD (Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS), 113, 114, 115

  second-class compartments

  murders in, 55, 56, 57, 91, 92, 93, 98, 102, 103, 110, 150, 152, 153, 166, 171, 173, 180, 182, 187–188

  S-Bahn, 54, 55, 56, 92, 122, 126, 153, 175, 185, 186, 187

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

  Secret State Police. See Gestapo

  Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei, SiPo), 33, 72–73, 113–114, 118. See also Kripo

  serial killers. See also Ogorzow, Paul

  animal torture, 30

  enuresis (bed-wetting), 30

  escalation of violence by, 10, 210

  “homicidal triad/triangle,” 30

  image of, 28, 210–211

  modus operandi, 226

  pyromania (setting fires), 30

  quitting (rare), 206

  returning to scene of crimes, 168, 226

  stereotype, 28, 210–211

  time between attacks, 172

  trophies of kills, keeping, 168

  Serious Crimes Unit, Kripo, 14, 16, 112, 220

  setting fires (pyromania), serial killers, 30

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

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

  sexual motive possibility, 137–139

  sexual offender announcement, 83–84

  Shirer, William, 35–36, 37–38

  shoeprints/footprints of killer, 200–201, 202–203, 204, 205, 222–223

  Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS (SD), 113, 114, 115

  Sicherheitspolizei. See Security Police

  Siewert, Gertrud (murder victim), xiii, xxi, 171–172

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

  SiPo. See Security Police

  Sixth Amendment right to a lawyer, U.S., 216

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

  sleeping at the S-Bahn station, Ogorzow, 131, 160

  Slovakia, 260

  social situations handled easily by Ogorzow, 93

  Sondergericht (Berlin Special Court), 229, 236–238, 239, 241–244, 250

  sounds made by S-Bahn, 129–130

  souvenirs of kills (never keeping), Ogorzow, 168

  Soviet Union, xix, xx, 18, 48, 194, 209, 253, 254, 259, 260

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

  spy as attacker theory, 145

  SS (Schutzstaffel). See also Himmler, Heinrich

  Kripo and membership in, 120


  Lüdtke’s membership, 252, 253

  member as suspect, 162–164

  “Staatliche Kriminalpolizei” (State Criminal Police), 72

  Stadtbahn (“city train”), 51

  Stadtschnell-bahn (“city fast train”), 50–51. See also S-Bahn

  Stalag Luft III POW camp, 257

  State Criminal Police (“Staatliche Kriminalpolizei”), 72

  stations on key route, S-Bahn, xiii, xvii, 34, 35

  stealing from victims (never), Ogorzow, 58, 167–168

  stereotype, serial killers, 28, 210–211

  stomach condition (excuse for murders), 234

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

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

  Straschewski, Mike, 158

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

  suicide possibilities, 71, 167, 168

  “summer-houses,” garden area, 6

  suspects, wrong kind, 143–147

  swastikas, 31, 50, 72, 163

  switch from normal to killer behavior, Ogorzow, 68

  syphilis, 233

  telephony cable laid alongside parts of S-Bahn, 99

  Telschow, Otto, 16

  Thierack, Otto (Minister of Justice), 229–231

  third-class compartments, S-Bahn, 54, 55, 91–92, 152, 153

  third rail and electroshock hazard, S-Bahn, 166–167

  Third Reich. See Nazi Germany

  “Threat to Kill, The” (MacDonald), 30

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

  ticket inspector as attacker theory, 181–182

  tickets and fines, S-Bahn, 53–55

  time cards of S-Bahn workers reviewed by Kripo, 189–190

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

  timetable, S-Bahn, 59–60, 101–102, 104

  tracks (expansion joints) sound, S-Bahn, 129

  trailer cars, S-Bahn, 153

  train. See S-Bahn

  train switching technology, S-Bahn, 159

  trap set by Lüdtke, 192–199

  trial of Ogorzow, 235, 236–244

  Tripartite Pact, xx

  trophies of kills (keeping), serial killers, 168

  12 O’Clock Journal (Das 12 Uhr Blatt), 174–175

  U-Bahn (Untergrundbahn), 51, 52, 150

  uniform of attacker focus, Lüdtke, 161–164

  uniform worn by

  Lüdtke, 252, 253, 260

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

  United Kingdom, xix, xx, 18, 36, 48, 62–63, 209. See also Great Britain (British)

  United States, xix

  Fifth Amendment right to silence, 216

  Rosie the Riveter, 91

  Sixth Amendment right to a lawyer, 216

  World War II and, xix, 38, 49

  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 45

  Untergrundbahn (U-Bahn), 51, 52, 150

  U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 254–256

  utopian ideology, Nazi Germany, 124

  “Verbindung nach Küstrin” (“Vnk”), 158, 159–160, 208, 262

  Vertrauensleute (V-persons), 88

  Vichy Regime, 49

  “Vnk” (“Junction to Küstrin”), 158, 159–160, 208, 262

  Vogt, Herbert, 44

  Voigt, Johanna (murder victim), xiii, xxi, 180–182, 183, 184, 185–186, 193

  Volksschädlingsverordnung (“Decree Against Public Enemies”), 45–46

  volunteer program authorized by Goebbels, 176–182, 189

  vom Rath, Ernst, 33

  V-persons (Vertrauensleute), 88

  waiting to commit more attacks, Ogorzow, 192, 193, 195

  warrant discs for identification, Kripo, 72

  weekly/monthly passes, S-Bahn, 54

  Weiblichen Kriminalpolizei (Female Criminal Police), 152, 153

  Weimann, Waldemar (forensic pathologist and psychiatrist), xxii

  addiction to violence, 59

  Atlas of Forensic Medicine, 262

  background of, 109–110

  Büngener’s examination by, 169

  cleaning skulls of victims, 221

  connecting the garden and train attacks, 132–139

  death of, 262

  defensive wounds (lack of), 73–74

  Diagnose Mord (“Diagnosis Murder”), 262

  Ditter’s examination by, 73–74, 109

  drug addicts and serial killers, 139

  euthanization of sick children by, 261

  Franke’s examination by, 107–109, 132

  Freese’s examination by, 132–133

  health conditions of killer as possible motive, 137

  injuries as result of beating, 225

  Institute of Forensic Medicine in Berlin, 109

  Kargoll’s examination by, 107–108

  lead object used by Ogorzow and, 110–111

  motive of crimes, 109, 135–138

  post S-Bahn murders, 261–262

  sexual motive possibility, 137–139

  Siewert’s examination by, 172

  Voigt’s examination by, 181

  Wessel’s examination by, 110

  W’s (Who, When, Where, How, and Why), 108

  Weimar Republic, 127, 210

  Weinberg, G. (letter in Ditter’s’ home), 78–79

  Werner, Paul, 125

  West Germany, 262

  Wicking, Friederike, 152

  Wilhelmshagen S-Bahn station, xv, xvii, 151

  WKP (Weiblichen Kriminalpolizei), 152, 153

  Woge, Manfred, 176–177, 191

  women blamed for murders by Ogorzow, 235

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

  women with husbands away in military, 7, 23, 29, 67–68, 91, 145, 196, 213, 228

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

  World War I, 15, 117–118, 252

  World War II, xix, 11, 18, 49. See also Great Britain; Nazi Germany; Soviet Union; United States

  aerial bombardment of cities, 36–39, 63

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

  W’s (Who, When, Where, How, and Why), 108

  Wuhlheide S-Bahn station, xiii, xv, xvii, 56, 151, 173

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

  Yugoslavia, xx

  Zach (Kripo Criminal Commissioner), 71–72, 74, 107–108, 110, 133

  Ziegelmann, Gertrude, 28. See also Ogorzow, Gertrude (Paul’s wife)

  Zusammenbruch (“the collapse”), 253

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Scott Andrew Selby is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School. He also has a master’s degree in Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law from Sweden’s Lund University. He is the author of The Axmann Conspiracy: The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the U.S. Army Defeated It and a coauthor of Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History. He is licensed to practice law in California and New York.

  The website for this book is www.aSerialKiller.com.

  Police photograph of Paul Ogorzow.

  Author’s Collection

  German blackout poster: “The Enemy Sees Your Light! Blackout!”

  Author’s Collection

  German blackout poster: “Light Means Your Death!”

 
Author’s Collection

  Re-creation of blackout conditions in second class of old S-Bahn train.

  Robin Gottschlag, courtesy of “Historische S-Bahn e.V.,” Berlin, 2012

  Waiting platform for Berlin S-Bahn, Karlshorst station.

  Roland Anton Laub (photolaub.com), 2012

  S-Bahn train pulling into the Rummelsburg station.

  Roland Anton Laub (photolaub.com), 2012

  Present-day view of the side of the Karlshorst S-Bahn station.

  Roland Anton Laub (photolaub.com), 2012

  Apartment building where Ogorzow lived, still standing today.

  Roland Anton Laub (photolaub.com), 2012

  Entrance to the apartment building Ogorzow lived in.

  Roland Anton Laub (photolaub.com), 2012

  Map of Rummelsburg S-Bahn station showing signal tower Vnk (1962).

  Author’s Collection

  Front of signal tower Vnk, where Ogorzow worked.

  Sven Keßler, 2004

  Rear of signal tower Vnk.

  Sven Keßler, 2005

  Police drawing of Ditter crime scene.

  Author’s Collection

  Police drawing of Franke crime scene.

  Author’s Collection

  Police drawing of Freese crime scene.

  Author’s Collection

  Police drawing of Koziol crime scene.

  Author’s Collection

  Skull of one of Ogorzow’s victims.

  Author’s Collection

  Mug shot of Paul Ogorzow.

  Author’s Collection

  Police photo of Ogorzow in his uniform.

  Author’s Collection

  Photo of Berlin S-Bahn class 167 built in 1938.

  Walied Schön, courtesy of “Historische S-Bahn e.V.,” Berlin

 

 

 


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