A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin (34 page)

“collapse, the”
(Zusammenbruch)
, 253

colloidal silver, 233

“colonies,” garden area, 5–6

color scheme used by S-Bahn, 47, 50

“Commencement and Duration of the Blackout,” Blackout Regulation, 41

commuter train line in Berlin, 19.
See also
S-Bahn

“compromise,” intelligence community, 256

conditions during blackouts, 2, 11, 18, 35–47, 50, 93, 106, 162, 164, 165, 177, 178, 209

confessions

Heimann, 204–205

Ogorzow, 220, 221–227, 256

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

consciousness (loss of) and guillotines, 247–248

control cars, S-Bahn, 153

control of information in Nazi Germany, 108, 123, 124, 125–126, 127, 174, 176, 177, 227

coward, Ogorzow, 94

crimes committed during blackouts, 45–46, 61, 188, 193, 205, 223, 229–231, 237

Criminal Police.
See
Kripo

Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, 127

curfews in Nazi Germany, 144, 147

Czechoslovakia, 75

Dalüge, Kurt (Chief of the Orpo), 114

dangerous gambit (trap set) by Lüdtke, 192–199

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

daylight bombing, 37, 63

death on the train, 101–105.
See also
Franke, Elfriede (murder victim)

Death Rode the Train
(Der Tod fuhr im Zug)
(Alt), 251

death sentence, Nazi Germany, 205, 223, 228, 229, 238, 239, 245, 246

decoys used by Lüdtke, 151–156, 164–165, 170

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

defensive wounds (lack of), 73–74

Demps, Laurenz, 7, 81, 190

denazification questionnaire
(Fragebogen)
, 253, 254

Denmark, xix, 48

Der Westen
(newspaper), 185–187

descriptions of Ogorzow, 82, 85–86, 98, 140, 145, 149, 161, 175, 186, 188, 209, 219–220

desensitized to violence, Ogorzow, 32, 34, 103

detective novels based on German Police, 251–252

detectives.
See
Heuser, Georg Albert; Lüdtke, Wilhelm

detectives on train stations, 151, 154, 157, 184

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

Deutsche Bundesbahn
, 262

Deutschen Telephonwerken, 99

Diagnose Mord
(“Diagnosis Murder”), Weimann, 262

dictatorship, 113

dissection of Ogorzow, 248

ditching work, Ogorzow, 157–160, 207–208, 209, 211, 213

Ditter, Arthur (Gertrude’s husband), 67, 74–77, 78–80, 140

Ditter, Gertrud (Gertrude’s mother), 75

Ditter, Gertrude “Gerda” (murder victim),
xiii
, xxi, 67–88, 101, 109, 127, 138, 140, 148, 149, 150, 187, 198

Ditter, Helga (Gertrude’s and Arthur’s daughter), 68, 69–70, 70–71, 75, 101

Ditter, Wolfgang (Gertrude’s and Arthur’s son), 68, 69–70, 70–71, 75, 101

DNA testing, 214

Dobler, Jens, 117, 124

Dolgner, Dr., 73

“Do not cry yet,” 21–24.
See also
Nieswandt, Gertrud (attempted murder victim)

doors on S-Bahn, 57, 58, 93–94

Douglas, John, 10

draft, Nazi Germany, 76

drug addicts and serial killers, 139

Düsseldorf, Germany, 157

early Sunday morning attacks, 165–166, 169, 170–173, 184.
See also
Büngener, Elisabeth (murder victim); Ebauer, Hedwig (murder victim); Siewert, Gertrud (murder victim)

East Berlin, 223.
See also
S-Bahn Murderer

Eastern Hanover, Germany, 16

East Germany (German Democratic Republic), 262

East Prussia, 29–30

Ebauer, Hedwig (murder victim),
xiii
, xxi, 172–173, 174

EEGs and guillotined rats, 248

Eichmann, Adolf, 116

Eighth Regulation Implementing the Air Protection Act, 40–42

Einsatzgruppen
(mobile killing squads on the Eastern Front), 114, 257, 258, 260

electric traction motor sounds, S-Bahn, 129–130

engine cars, S-Bahn, 153

enuresis (bed-wetting), serial killers, 30

epilepsy, 137

Erkner S-Bahn station,
xv
, xvii, 175, 185

escalation of violence by Ogorzow, 9–11, 18, 26, 210

eugenics belief, Nazi Germany, 137

euthanization of sick children by Weimann, 261

examinations of bodies.
See
Weimann, Waldemar

excuses for murders, Ogorzow, 228, 232–235

execution of Ogorzow, 245–248, 249

expansion by Nazi Germany, xix–xx, 48–49

expansion joints sound, S-Bahn, 129

ex post facto (“after the fact”) laws, 244

eyewitness evidence, problematic, 161–162

eyewitness identification of Ogorzow, 218–220

family of Ogorzow, 28–29, 69, 97, 122, 131, 193, 208, 209, 235

Fangschleuse S-Bahn station,
xv
, xvii

“fast train”
(Schnellbahn)
, 51

FBI, 10

fear of getting caught, Ogorzow, 17–18, 20, 21, 24, 102, 103, 104–105, 126, 140

Female Criminal Police
(Weiblichen Kriminalpolizei),
152, 153

female police used as decoys, 151–156, 164

Fifth Amendment right to silence, U.S., 216

fight-or-flight response, 19

file of Ogorzow and Lüdtke, 209–211

final murder.
See
Koziol, Frieda (murder victim)

Final Solution of the Jewish question, xx

firearms (none) for female police decoys, 152, 153, 164

fire setting (pyromania), serial killers, 30

first-class transport, S-Bahn, 56

first death on the train, 101–105.
See also
Franke, Elfriede (murder victim)

first early Sunday morning attack, 165–166, 169.
See also
Büngener, Elisabeth (murder victim)

first murder, 67–88.
See also
Ditter, Gertrude “Gerda” (murder victim)

first S-Bahn attack, 48–60.
See also
Kargoll, Gerda (attempted murder victim)

fists attacks by Ogorzow, 17, 26, 27

flashlight harassment by Ogorzow, 7–9, 18, 21, 25, 138, 150, 217, 218

food rations in Nazi Germany, 144

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

footrace, 17–20.
See also
Jablinski, Hertha (attempted murder victim)

foreign laborers in Nazi Germany, 145–147

Forensic Institute of the Security Police at the Office of the Reich Criminal Investigations Department, 72–73

forensic pathologist.
See
Weimann, Waldemar

forensics, state of, 89–90

Fragebogen
(denazification questionnaire), 253, 254

France, xix, xx, 18, 33, 48, 49, 62

Franke, Elfriede (murder victim),
xiii
, xxi, 103–105, 106, 107–109, 112, 128, 130, 132, 133, 139, 148, 226

Frankfurt, Germany, 15

Frankfurt University, 121

Freese, Irmgard (murder victim),
xiii
, xxi, 130–131, 132, 133, 138

French Revolution, 223, 247

Frenzel grocery store, Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, 84

Frick, Wilhelm (Minister of the Interior), 113

Friedrichshagen S-Bahn station,
xiii
,
xv
, xvii, 1, 90, 150, 151, 166

Friedrichstraße S-Bahn station, 63

Fürstenwalde S-Bahn station,
xv
, xvii, 165

Fußarzt
(“podiatrist”), 201

Gann, Fritz (friend of Gertrude Ditter), 80

garden area murders,
xiii
, 5–11.
See also
Budzinski, Lina (attempted murder victim); Ditter, Gertrude “Gerda” (murder victim); Jablinski, Hertha (attempted murder victim); Koziol, Frieda (murder victim); Nieswandt, Gertrud (attempted murder victim); Ogorzow, Paul; S-Bahn Murderer; Schuhmacher, Julie (attempted murder victim)

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

residents interviewed by Kripo, 190–191

S-Bahn vs., 34, 111, 156, 195

gardening love of Ogorzow, 6, 29

gasoline rationing in Nazi Germany, 52, 201

gassing people developed by Nebe, 257

Geheime Staatspolizei.
See
Gestapo

Gerbert, Mr., 87

German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 262

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

Germany.
See also
Berlin, Germany; garden area murders; Nazi Germany; S-Bahn; S-Bahn Murderer

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

East Germany (German Democratic Republic), 262