A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin (32 page)

2
Michael Burleigh,
The Third Reich: A New History
(New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), 181.

3
SHAEF,
The German Police,
47.

4
Ibid.

5
Ibid.

6
Burleigh,
The Third Reich
, 181.

7
SHAEF,
The German Police,
47.

8
Ibid.

9
Dr. Jens Dobler, quoted in Gabi Schlag and Benno Wenz,
Tatort Berlin—Der S-Bahn-Mörder von Rummelsburg
, TV documentary program, original airdate November 26, 2012, broadcast in Germany by Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting (rbb).

10
Burleigh,
The Third Reich
, 681.

11
Shareen Blair Brysac,
Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000), 330.

12
For more on this issue, see the affidavit by Dr. Walter Zirpins, June 24, 1946, Nuremberg, Germany, contained in Wilhelm Lüdtke’s denazification file.

13
The CIA thoroughly investigated Lüdtke after the war, and the only vices they could find were his moderate drinking and smoking. National Archives, Washington, D.C., RC Box #082, Location (RC) 230/86/23/05, “Ludtke Wilhelm.” Note that the file name is missing the umlaut.

14
The CIA confirmed this information that Wilhelm Lüdtke gave them by looking him up in the 1941 and 1943 Berlin white pages. Ibid.

15
Ibid.

16
Ibid.

17
Ingeborg Heidenreich, quoted in Schlag and Wenz,
Tatort
.

18
Ibid.

19
Gerda Busch, quoted in Schlag and Wenz,
Tatort
.

20
This is from a once-secret record of the round table meeting Hitler held on August 20, 1942, to appoint a new Reich justice minister and a president of the People’s Court. Lothar Gruchmann, “
Hitler über die Justiz. Das Tischgespräch vom 20.
August 1942,”
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
12, Jahrg. 1. H. (January 1964), 86–101, 95. Footnote 23 on this page explains that Hitler was referring to Paul Ogorzow.

21
Ibid.

22
Dr. Jens Dobler, quoted in Schlag and Wenz,
Tatort
.

23
Michael Wildt,
An Uncompromising Generation: The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office
, trans. Tom Lampert (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), 181 and endnote 48.

24
Dr. Christian Pfeiffer, quoted in Schlag and Wenz,
Tatort
.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

1
Waldemar Weimann and Gerhard Jaeckel,
Diagnose Mord: Die Memoiren eines Gerichtsmediziners
(Bayreuth, Germany: Hestia, 1964), 263.

2
Ibid., 263–264.

3
Professor Hans-Ludwig Kröber, quoted in Gabi Schlag and Benno Wenz,
Tatort Berlin—Der S-Bahn-Mörder von Rummelsburg
, TV documentary program, original airdate November 26, 2012, broadcast in Germany by Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting (rbb).

4
Wilhelm Lüdtke and Georg Heuser, “
Die Berliner S-Bahn-Morde
,”
Kriminalistik
16, Issue 5, May 1942, 50.

5
Weimann and Jaeckel,
Diagnose Mord
, 264.

6
Ibid.

7
Ibid., 265.

8
Ibid.

9
Thomas Krickstadt and Mike Straschewski, joint e-mail to author, March 15, 2013.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

1
Diana Schulle, “Forced Labor,” in
Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation
, ed. Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schütz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 148.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

1
Thomas Krickstadt and Mike Straschewski, joint e-mail to author, March 15, 2013.

2
Stephan Harbort, quoted in Gabi Schlag and Benno Wenz,
Tatort Berlin—Der S-Bahn-Mörder von Rummelsburg
, TV documentary program, original airdate November 26, 2012, broadcast in Germany by Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting (rbb).

3
Thomas Krickstadt and Mike Straschewski, joint e-mail to author, February 20, 2013.

4
Frank Pfeiffer, e-mail to author, March 17, 2013.

5
Frank Pfeiffer, e-mail to author, March 16, 2013.

CHAPTER NINETEEN

1
Sunrise time from http://www.world-timedate.com, accessed on March 29, 2013.

CHAPTER TWENTY

1
“Ueberfälle in S-Bahnzügen,”
Das 12 Uhr Blatt
(Berlin), January 7, 1941.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

1
Manfred Woge, quoted in Gabi Schlag and Benno Wenz,
Tatort Berlin—Der S-Bahn-Mörder von Rummelsburg
, TV documentary program, original airdate November 26, 2012, broadcast in Germany by Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting (rbb).

2
Wilhelm Lüdtke and Georg Heuser, “
Die Berliner S-Bahn-Morde
,”
Kriminalistik
16, Issue 5 (May 1942), 52.

3
Ibid., 50.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

1
“
Frauen wurden aus der S-Bahn-Zügen geworfen
,”
Der Westen
(Berlin), February 14, 1941. The original misspelled the victim Voigt’s last name. I corrected it in this translation.

2
Professor Laurenz Demps, quoted in Gabi Schlag and Benno Wenz,
Tatort Berlin— Der S-Bahn-Mörder von Rummelsburg
, TV documentary program, original airdate November 26, 2012, broadcast in Germany by Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting (rbb).

3
Manfred Woge, quoted in Schlag and Wenz,
Tatort
.

4
“Das Spiel ist aus—Arthur Nebe: Glanz und Elend der deutschen Kriminalpolizei,”
Der Spiegel
, January 26, 1950, 24.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

1
“Das Spiel ist aus—Arthur Nebe: Glanz und Elend der deutschen Kriminalpolizei,”
Der Spiegel
, January 26, 1950, 24.

2
Wilhelm Lüdtke and Georg Heuser, “
Die Berliner S-Bahn-Morde
,”
Kriminalistik
16, Issue 5 (May 1942), 52.

3
Ibid.

4
Ibid.

5
Ibid.

6
Ibid.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

1
Wilhelm Lüdtke wrote that the prints were men’s size 39.5. Some other reports have them at size 40.

2
“Impression and Pattern Evidence,” National Institute of Justice, http://www.nij.gov/topics/forensics/evidence/impression/impression.htm, January 2, 2013, accessed on January 25, 2013.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

1
This list was put together after Ogorzow was arrested as a suspect and consists of items that were taken from him and his home while he was under interrogation. Berlin Kripo Homicide Division Koziol, July 22, 1941. This list was received and certified on July 25, 1941.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

1
Wilhelm Lüdtke and Georg Heuser, “
Die Berliner S-Bahn-Morde
,”
Kriminalistik
16, Issue 5 (May 1942), 68.

2
Ibid., 70.

3
Ibid., 68.

4
Ibid.

5
“Der Berliner S-Bahn-Mörder gefaßt!,”
Berliner Morgenpost
, July 18, 1941.

6
Ibid., quoted and translated into English in Todd Herzog,
Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany
(New York: Berghahn Books, 2009), 145.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

1
Robert Gellately,
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002), 79 and endnote 56.

2
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Translation: First Letter to All Judges,” 
Holocaust Encyclopedia,
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007911, accessed on January 30, 2013, letter dated October 1, 1942. USHMM translated “Letter to All Judges—Announcement of the Reich Minister of Justice—Nr. 1,” in Heinz Boberach, ed.,
Richterbriefe: Dokumente zur Beeinflussung der deutschen rechtsprechung 1942–44 
(Boppard am Rhein, Germany: Harold Boldt Verlag, 1975), 9–10.

3
Confession of Paul Ogorzow, July 1941. Kriminalpolizei file on the criminal investigation into the S-Bahn murders. Landesarchiv Berlin, A.Pr. Br. Rep. 030-03 Tit. 198B Nr. 1782–1789.

4
Some documents have this doctor’s last name spelled “Schwarenbach.”

5
Confession of Paul Ogorzow, July 1941.

6
Ibid.

7
Addendum to the Confession of Paul Ogorzow, July 1941.

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

1
For more on the legal structure of the special courts, see, e.g., Andrew Szanajda, 
The Restoration of Justice in Postwar Hesse, 1945–1949
(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007), 24–27.

2
Ibid., 26.

3
Indictment of Paul Ogorzow on July 23, 1941. Kriminalpolizei file on the criminal investigation into the S-Bahn murders. Landesarchiv Berlin, A.Pr. Br. Rep. 030-03 Tit. 198B Nr. 1782–1789.

4
Ibid.

5
Chief of Police in Berlin, press release, “Accusation of the Karlshorst Murderer,” newspaper/print, Berlin Local Announcements, July 23, 1941, number 174.

6
“
Im Namen des Deutschen Volkes!
”: Special Court of Berlin, judgment against Paul Ogorzow, July 24, 1941, 1.

7
US Army, “The Statutory Criminal Law of Germany: With Comments,”
Department of the Army Pamphlet
, 31-122 (Washington, DC: War Department, 1946), 44.

8
Ibid.

9
Ibid.

10
Ibid., 45.

11
Special Court of Berlin, judgment against Paul Ogorzow, July 24, 1941. Kriminalpolizei file on the criminal investigation into the S-Bahn murders. Landesarchiv Berlin, A.Pr. Br. Rep. 030-03 Tit. 198B Nr. 1782–1789.

12
Ibid.

13
Ibid.

14
Ibid.

15
Ibid.

16
Ibid.

17
Ibid.

18
Wilhelm Lüdtke and Georg Heuser, “
Die Berliner S-Bahn-Morde
,”
Kriminalistik
16, Issue 5 (May 1942), 70.

19
Chief of Police in Berlin, press release, “Ogorzow Found Fully Accountable,” newspaper/print, Berlin Local Announcements, July 24, 1941, number 175.