A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin (35 page)

German Democratic Party, 15

political upheaval in, 15–16

Weimar Republic, 127, 210

West Germany, 262

Gestapo (
Geheime Staatspolizei
, Secret State Police), 88, 113, 114, 115–116, 117, 119, 151, 258.
See also
Heydrich, Reinhard

global positioning system (GPS), 37

Goebbels, Paul Joseph (Reich Minister of Propaganda), xxii

children (Joseph’s and Magda’s) killed by, 259

detective novels based on German Police, 251

Lüdtke and, 174, 176, 177–178

Magda (Joseph’s wife), 123, 259

post S-Bahn murders, 259–260

pressure on police, 133, 183

propaganda used by, 174

representative of Nazi Germany, 126

secrecy about S-Bahn Murderer, 108, 123–124, 126, 127, 174, 176, 177, 227

suicide by, 259

volunteer program authorized by, 176–182, 189

Goering, Hermann, 36

gonorrhea (“the clap”), 232–233

Göring, Hermann (Reichsmarschall), xx, 36, 42

gossip source of information on police investigation, 154, 157, 165

GPS (global positioning system), 37

Great Britain (British)

accuracy of bombing, 39

allotments (British) vs. allotments in garden area, 6

astronavigation used by, 37

Berlin bombed by, xx, 35–36, 37–38, 39, 46, 63, 65–66

Blitz, xx, 36

spy as attacker theory, 145

Great Escape, 257

Greece, xx

“Green Police” (Orpo), 71, 97, 114

ground, killing on the, 128–131.
See also
Freese, Irmgard (murder victim)

Grynszpan, Riva, Sendel, and Herschel, 33

guillotine used in executions, Nazi Germany, 62, 223, 246–247, 258

Gutland I/II, 6, 68, 75, 81, 203.
See also
garden area

Halle an der Saale, Germany, 115

Hamburg, Germany, 254

Hampe dairy, Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, 84

Hangelsberg S-Bahn station,
xv
, xvii

hangings, Nazi Germany, 246, 258

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

Harbort, Stephan (Düsseldorf Chief Superintendent), 157

Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, Germany, 15

“Hartmann, Ernst,” 255.
See also
Lüdtke, Wilhelm

hat worn by Ogorzow, 161, 163

Hauptsturmführer
, 252, 253, 260

head injuries (excuse for murders), 233–234, 241

health conditions of killer as possible motive, 137

Heidenreich, Ingeborg, 121–122

Heimann, W., 203, 204–205, 206, 222–223

Herlitz, Hermann (Gertrude Ditter’s neighbor), 77, 78, 87

Heuser, Georg Albert (Kripo Detective), xxii, 134, 209, 211, 212, 236, 260–261

Heydrich, Reinhard “Blond Beast,” “Butcher of Prague,” “Hangman,” (Director of the RHSA, head of the Gestapo)

assassination by Czech and Slovak resistance fighters, 258–259

background of, 114–115

Lüdtke and, 120, 127, 164, 183, 223

Nebe’s hatred of, 118

Night of Broken Glass
(Kristallnacht)
, 33, 103, 114

Heydrich (
cont.
)

post S-Bahn murders, 258–259

prestige issues, 133

representative of Nazi Germany, 126

Himmler, Heinrich (Chief of the RHSA and SS), vii, xxii

background of, 114, 115

detective novels based on German Police, 251

Hitler and, 113

Lüdtke and, 164, 183

Nebe’s hatred of, 118

post S-Bahn murders, 259

prestige issues, 133

representative of Nazi Germany, 126

suicide by, 259

Hindenburg, Paul von (President), 210, 237

Hirschgarten S-Bahn station,
xiii
,
xv
, xvii, 93, 94, 151

Hitler, Adolf
(Führer)
, 124.
See also
Blackout Regulation

“blackout killer,” 122–123

bombing of Great Britain and, 36

bomb shelter refuge, 64

Ditter (Gertrude’s mother) and, 75

Eva Braun (Adolf’s wife), 259

guillotines and, 247

Himmler and, 113

Nebe’s hatred of, 118, 119

“Night of the Long Knives, The,” 32, 114

pardoning of violent criminals by, 210, 236–237

plot to kill (Operation Valkyrie), 118, 245, 258

response to Roosevelt’s message, 38–39

special courts and, 237

suicide by, 252–253, 259–260

World War II strategies of, 48, 63

Hobbin, Heidi (Nebe’s mistress), 258

Holland, 248

Holocaust, xx, 114, 116

Holocaust Encyclopedia
, 45

home of Ogorzow,
xiii
, 3, 5, 28, 68, 69, 97, 122, 211–212

“homicidal triad/triangle,” 30

“Homicide Koziol” case, 236.
See also
S-Bahn Murderer

homicides handled by Kripo, 14, 71, 97, 112

homosexuals persecuted by Nazi Germany, 32, 165

Hungary, xx

hunting for victims by Ogorzow, 1–2, 4, 11, 21–22, 34, 102, 150, 153–154, 156, 157, 168, 195–196, 226

husbands of victims interviewed by Kripo, 74–77, 78–80, 198

hyoid bone, 68–69

identification of Ogorzow by victims, 218–220

Ihde, Wilhelm (Reich Chamber of Writers), 251

image of serial killers, 28, 210–211

“immorally harassed,” 83

impression evidence, 203, 204

India, xix

informants in Nazi Germany, 88

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

insanity defense, 233–234, 239–242, 243

inside knowledge of police investigation into murders, 154, 157, 165, 192–193, 194

Institute for Forensic Psychiatry at Freien Universität Berlin, 134

Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 248

Institute of Forensic Medicine in Berlin, 109

interrogation of Ogorzow, 216–220

investigation.
See
Kripo

iron rod used by Ogorzow, 102, 103–104, 107, 110, 111, 130, 166, 170, 171, 179, 180, 197

Italy, xx, 49

Jablinski, Hertha (attempted murder victim),
xiii
, xxi, 18–20, 21, 22

Japan, xx

Jewish doctor’s intentional bad treatment of gonorrhea (excuse for murders), 232–233, 234, 241, 244

Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany, xx, 32–33, 65, 103, 114, 116, 124, 143–145, 211, 228

job security (lack of), Lüdtke, 16, 119–120

Journal of Criminology
, 260

jumping from a moving train by Ogorzow, 155, 156

“Junction to
Küstrin
” (“Vnk”), 158, 159–160, 208, 262

Kargoll, Gerda (attempted murder victim),
xiii
, xxi, 53–60, 61–62, 95, 97, 98, 101, 107–108, 161, 170, 182

“Karlshorst S-Bahn Murderer,” 250–251.
See also
S-Bahn Murderer

Karlshorst S-Bahn station,
xiii
,
xv
, xvii, 28, 58, 102, 106, 128, 129, 151, 170, 172, 183, 185, 238

Kaulsdorfer railway, 218

Kim, Kee D., 247–248

Kingsley, Sir Ben, 118

knife attacks by Ogorzow, 4, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 69, 73, 74, 89, 90, 111, 141, 219

Koblenz, Germany, 261

Kolonie Gutland I/II, 6, 68, 75, 81, 203.
See also
garden area

Königs Wusterhausen, Germany, 210

Köpenick S-Bahn station,
xiii
,
xv
, xvii, 96, 151

Koziol, Frieda (murder victim),
xiii
, xxi, 196–199, 200, 203, 222, 236

Krickstadt, Thomas, 51, 158

Kriminalpolizei.
See
Kripo

Kripo (
Kriminalpolizei
, Criminal Police), 112–127.
See also
garden area murders; Lüdtke, Wilhelm; Nebe, Arthur; S-Bahn Murderer

“Alex, the” (Alexanderplatz) building, 119, 175, 187

blood found on Ogorzow’s uniform, 213–215

call for information posters, 139–140

confession (Heimann), 204–205

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

detective novels based on, 251–252

dress of, 71–72

eyewitness evidence, problematic, 161–162

eyewitness identification of Ogorzow, 218–220

foreign laborer as attacker theory, 145–147

forensics, state of, 89–90

garden area residents interviewed by, 190–191

Gestapo vs., 151

Heimann suspect, 203, 204–205, 206, 222–223

Heuser (Detective), xxii, 134, 209, 211, 212, 236, 260–261

home searched by Kripo, 211–212

“Homicide Koziol” case, 236