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This is the true story of the pursuit and capture of a serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich.
For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed family man, party member, and sergeant in the infamous Brownshirts, he had worked his way up in the Berlin railroad from a manual laborer laying track to assistant signalman. But he also had a secret need to harass and frighten women. Then he was given a gift from the Nazi high command.
Due to Allied bombing raids, a total blackout was instituted throughout Berlin, including on the commuter trainstrains often used by women riding home alone from the factories.
Under cover of darkness and with a helpless flock of victims to choose from, Ogorzows depredations grew more and more horrific. He escalated from simply frightening women to physically attacking them, eventually raping and murdering them. Beginning in September 1940, he started casually tossing their bodies off the moving train. Though the Nazi party tried to censor news of the attacks, the women of Berlin soon lived in a state of constant fear.
It was up to Wilhelm Ldtke, head of the Berlin polices serious crimes division, to hunt down the madman in their midst. For the first time, the gripping full story of Ogorzows killing spree and Ldtkes relentless pursuit is told in dramatic detail.
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A SERIAL KILLER IN NAZI BERLIN
The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer
SCOTT ANDREW SELBY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
eBook ISBN 978-1-101-60639-1
Selby, Scott Andrew.
A serial killer in Nazi Berlin : the chilling true story of the S-Bahn murderer / Scott Andrew Selby.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-425-26414-0
1. Ogorzow, Paul. 2. Berliner S-Bahn (Germany) 3. Serial murdersGermany
BerlinCase studies. 4. Serial murder investigationGermanyBerlinCase studies.
5. Berlin (Germany)History19181945. I. Title.
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FIRST EDITION: January 2014
While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and
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Dedicated to all the victims of the S-Bahn Murderer
In the coming war we shall fight not only on land, on sea, and in the air. There will be a fourth theatre of operationsthe Inner Front. That front will decide on the continued existence or the irrevocable death of the German nation.
HEINRICH HIMMLER, SEPTEMBER 1937
LIST OF S-BAHN STATIONS ON KEY ROUTE
Ostkreuz
Rummelsburg
[Betriebsbahnhof Rummelsburg
not open to the public during this time]
Karlshorst
Wuhlheide
Kpenick
Hirschgarten
Friedrichshagen
Rahnsdorf
Wilhelmshagen
Erkner
Fangschleuse
Hangelsberg
Frstenwalde
CHRONOLOGY OF BACKGROUND EVENTSAUGUST 1939 TO JULY 1941
1939:
AUGUST 23 Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression pact
SEPTEMBER 1 Germany invades Poland (widely considered the start of World War II)
SEPTEMBER 3 The UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, and France declare war on Germany; a German U-boat sinks an unarmed British passenger ship, starting the Battle of the Atlantic
SEPTEMBER 5 The United States declares neutrality regarding this conflict
SEPTEMBER 17 The Soviet Union attacks Poland
OCTOBER 6 Germany and the Soviet Union now occupy a divided Poland
1940:
APRIL 9 Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Denmark surrenders
MAY 10 Germany begins the invasion of Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg; Luxembourg is occupied
MAY 14 The Netherlands surrenders to Germany
MAY 28 Belgium surrenders to Germany
JUNE 9 Norway surrenders to Germany
JUNE 22 France signs an armistice with Germany
AUGUST 24 Germany accidentally bombs a church in London
AUGUST 25 The UK bombs Berlin
SEPTEMBER 7 The Blitz beginsGermany bombs London and other British cities on purpose
SEPTEMBER 27 Japan, Italy, and Germany sign the Tripartite Pactestablishing the Axis Powers
1941:
FEB 20 German and British land forces fight in Libya
APRIL 6 Invasion of Yugoslavia by Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, and Italy
APRIL 17 Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
APRIL 27 Greece surrenders to Germany
JUNE 22 Germany breaks its pact with the Soviet Union and invades it
JULY 31 Hermann Gring orders Reinhard Heydrich to plan the Final Solution of the Jewish question (i.e., the Holocaust)
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
KEY VICTIMS
ELIZABETH BENDORF Attacked November 1940 on the S-Bahn
LINA BUDZINSKI Attacked August 1939 in the garden area
ELISABETH BNGENER Attacked December 1940 on the S-Bahn
GERTRUDE GERDA DITTER Attacked October 1940 in the garden area
HEDWIG EBAUER Attacked January 1941 on the S-Bahn
ELFRIEDE FRANKE Attacked December 1940 on the S-Bahn
IRMGARD FREESE Attacked December 1940 outside the Karlshorst station
HERTHA JABLINSKI Attacked December 1939 in the garden area
GERDA KARGOLL Attacked September 1940 on the S-Bahn
FRIEDA KOZIOL Attacked July 1941 in the garden area
GERTRUD NIESWANDT Attacked July 1940 in the garden area
JULIE SCHUHMACHER Attacked August 1940 in the garden area
GERTRUD SIEWERT Attacked December 1940 on the S-Bahn
JOHANNA VOIGT Attacked February 1941 on the S-Bahn
KILLER
PAUL OGORZOW S-Bahn employee
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND GOVERNMENTAL PERSONNEL
JOSEPH GOEBBELS Minister of propaganda, gauleiter of Berlin, Reichsleiter
GEORG HEUSER Kripo detective
REINHARD HEYDRICH Director of the RHSA
HEINRICH HIMMLER Chief of the RHSA and the SS
WILHELM LDTKE Kripo police commissioner
ARTHUR NEBE Head of the Kripo (RHSA Amt 5)
DR. WALDEMAR WEIMANN Forensic pathologist and psychiatrist
AUTHORS NOTE ON SOURCES
Ive tried to minimize the use of endnotes in this book to make it a more enjoyable read. If information is not cited, it is either commonly known, such as dates of key events during World War II, or it comes from the Kriminalpolizei file on the criminal investigation into the S-Bahn murders. The original documents from this investigation are at the Landesarchiv Berlin, A.Pr. Br. Rep. 030-03 Tit. 198B Nr. 17821789.
The woman looked to be alone. That was Paul Ogorzows first mistake. He was so eager to attack her that he went with this initial impression instead of taking the time to make sure there was no one around that could save her.
She was walking along a pathway through the gardens of suburban eastern Berlin in an area known as Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. Although she was near the station from where she could catch a train that would whisk her into the heart of Berlin, this residential area felt like the countryside. Shed walked this path between residents allotments many times, through the lush gardens with their cherry trees, chestnut trees, apple trees, carrots, onions, potatoes, hedges, and assorted bushes and grasses.
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