A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin (39 page)

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.