A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin (37 page)

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

Operation BESMIRCH (CIA), 255

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