A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin (38 page)

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

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