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Authors: Scott Andrew Selby

Papen, Franz von (Vice-Chancellor), 237
pardoning of violent criminals by Hitler, 210, 236–237
pattern evidence, 203–204
Peeping Tom caught by Kripo, 205
petite women selected to attack by Ogorzow, 196
Pfeiffer, Christian, 127
photopigments, 8–9
pigeons dispute between neighbors, 77, 78, 87
plain clothes worn by Kripo, 252
plot to kill Hitler (Operation Valkyrie), 118, 245, 258
Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, 245–246, 258
“podiatrist”
(Fußarzt)
, 201
Poland, xix, 18, 30, 33, 40, 41, 42, 43, 48, 51, 146, 202, 232
Polenski, Kurt, 246
police custody of Ogorzow, 207–236
police feared in Nazi Germany, 13
police monitoring (ceasing of), rumor spread by Lüdtke, 194–195, 198
police resources expended on case, 192, 194, 195, 222
political upheaval in Germany, 15–16
Pomerania, Germany, 15
Potsdam, Germany, 74
power consolidated by Nazi Germany, 16, 31, 62–63, 118, 210
practice makes perfect, 171
Prague, Czech Republic, 252
“Preparation of Blackout Measures,” Blackout Regulation, 40–41
press release following Ogorzow’s execution, 249–250
preußischen Landeskriminalamt
(Prussian Criminal Police), 116
Prinz Albrecht Strasse, Berlin, 119
Prinz-Heinrich-Strasse, Berlin, 129
Project BECRIPPLE (CIA), 255
propaganda posters, Nazi Germany, 43–44, 91
propaganda used by Goebbels, 174
Prussian Criminal Police
(preußischen Landeskriminalamt)
, 116
psychiatrist.
See
Weimann, Waldemar
“psychopathological triad,” 30
publicity ban about S-Bahn Murderer, 108, 123, 124, 125–126, 127, 174, 176, 177, 192, 227, 249
purse-snatcher case, Nazi Germany, 229
push to catch the killer, 183–191, 222–223
pyromania (setting fires), serial killers, 30
“quarter trains,” S-Bahn, 56
questioning of Ogorzow by Kripo, 209–220
quitting (rare), serial killers, 206
racial theory of crime, 124–125, 143–147, 211
radio navigation used by Nazi Germany, 37
Rahnsdorf S-Bahn station,
xv
, xvii, 53, 151, 166
railroad.
See
S-Bahn
rationalization of Koziol’s murder by Lüdtke, 198–199
rationing in Nazi Germany, 52, 201–202
rebar used by Ogorzow, 102, 103–104, 107, 110, 111, 130, 166, 170, 171, 179, 180, 197
REDCAP program (CIA), 255
red herring (shoes), 200–206, 222–223
“Regulation Against Folk Pests”
(Volksschädlingsverordnung)
, 45–46
Reich Chancellery bunker, 259–260
Reich Criminal Investigation Department newspaper
(Deutches Kriminalpolizeiblatt)
, 83–84
Reich Main Security Office (
Reichssicherheitshauptam,
RHSA), 113–114, 115–119, 152, 190.
See also
Heydrich, Reinhard; Himmler, Heinrich; Kripo; Nebe, Arthur
Reichsbahn
(German National Railroad Company), 49–50, 54, 55, 56, 78, 150, 163, 262.
See also
S-Bahn
Reichskriminalpolizeiamt
(RKPA), 116
Reichssicherheitshauptam.
See
Reich Main Security Office
Reinhardtstraße, 63
rent in Nazi Germany, 75, 76
returning to scene of crimes, serial killers, 168, 226
revoking of Ogorzow’s Nazi Party membership, 236
rewards offered by Kripo, 81–83, 87, 88, 127, 140, 174, 185, 187
Rheydt, Germany, 123
Rhineland-Palatinate, 260
RHSA.
See
Reich Main Security Office
rights (none) of public, Nazi Germany, 216

Ringbahn
,” 51–52, 54
Ritschel, Magda (Goebbels’s wife), 123, 259
RKPA
(Reichskriminalpolizeiamt),
116
Roosevelt, Franklin (U.S. President), 38
Rosie the Riveter, 91
roundups of train riders at key times, 184
Royal Air Force (British), 43
Ruhr region, Germany, 36
Rummelsburg S-Bahn station,
xiii
,
xv
, xvii, 25, 52–53, 67, 78, 99, 106, 129, 141, 150, 151, 155, 158, 159, 172, 175, 180, 183, 185, 196, 208
SA
(Sturmabteilung)
, 31–33, 34, 102, 103, 154, 165, 178, 208, 209, 220, 222, 224, 228, 234, 244
Saga, Marie (Ogorzow’s mother), 30
Saga, Paul, 30.
See also
Ogorzow, Paul
Salamander, 201
S-Bahn, 19.
See also
S-Bahn Murderer
air raid warning system, 63–64
chronology of background events (August 1939–July 1941), xix–xx
“city fast train”
(Stadtschnell-bahn)
, 50–51
color scheme used by, 47, 50
connecting the garden and train attacks, 132–142, 148–150, 213, 226
control cars, 153
doors on, 57, 58, 93–94
East German control of, 262
electric traction motor sounds, 129–130
employee, Ogorzow,
xiii
, xxii, 2, 7, 31, 49–50, 52–53, 54, 55, 79, 157–160, 193, 195, 209
engine cars, 153
first-class transport, 56
garden area murders vs., 34, 111, 156, 195
German National Railroad Company
(Reichsbahn)
, 49–50, 54, 55, 56, 78, 150, 163, 262
history of, 50–52
logo, 50
maps (1939),
xiii
,
xiv–xv
Olympics (Berlin, 1936) and, 51
personnel interviewed by Kripo, 189, 207–208, 209
“quarter trains,” 56
Ringbahn
(inner area of Berlin), 54
second-class compartments, 54, 55, 56, 92, 122, 126, 153, 175, 185, 186, 187
S-Bahn (
cont.
)
sounds made by, 129–130
stations on key route,
xiii
, xvii, 34, 35
telephony cable laid alongside parts of, 99
third-class compartments, 54, 55, 91–92, 152, 153
third rail and electroshock hazard, 166–167
tickets and fines, 53–55
timetable, 59–60, 101–102, 104
tracks (expansion joints) sound, 129
trailer cars, 153
train switching technology, 159
“Vnk”
(“Junction to Küstrin”)
, 158, 159–160, 208, 262
weekly/monthly passes, 54
women laborers’ fear of, 121–123, 127, 174
S-Bahn Murderer, 60, 226, 251.
See also
Bendorf, Elizabeth (attempted murder victim); Büngener, Elisabeth (murder victim); Ebauer, Hedwig (murder victim); Franke, Elfriede (murder victim); garden area murders; Kargoll, Gerda (attempted murder victim); Ogorzow, Paul; S-Bahn; Siewert, Gertrud (murder victim); Voigt, Johanna (murder victim)
schizophrenia, 137
Schlesische Bahn
route monitoring, 150–155, 157
Schnellbahn
(“fast train”), 51
Schollain, Helene, 87–88
Schöneberger Straße, 63
Schuhmacher, Julie (attempted murder victim),
xiii
, xxi, 25–27, 89, 110
Schutzstaffel.
See
SS
Schwarzbach, Wilhelm, 232–233
SD (Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS)
, 113, 114, 115
second-class compartments
murders in, 55, 56, 57, 91, 92, 93, 98, 102, 103, 110, 150, 152, 153, 166, 171, 173, 180, 182, 187–188
S-Bahn, 54, 55, 56, 92, 122, 126, 153, 175, 185, 186, 187
secrecy about S-Bahn Murderer, 108, 123, 124, 125–126, 127, 174, 176, 177, 192, 227, 249
Secret State Police.
See
Gestapo
Security Police (
Sicherheitspolizei,
SiPo), 33, 72–73, 113–114, 118.
See also
Kripo
serial killers.
See also
Ogorzow, Paul
animal torture, 30
enuresis (bed-wetting), 30
escalation of violence by, 10, 210
“homicidal triad/triangle,” 30
image of, 28, 210–211
modus operandi, 226
pyromania (setting fires), 30
quitting (rare), 206
returning to scene of crimes, 168, 226
stereotype, 28, 210–211
time between attacks, 172
trophies of kills, keeping, 168
Serious Crimes Unit, Kripo, 14, 16, 112, 220
setting fires (pyromania), serial killers, 30
sexual assaults by Ogorzow, 10, 24, 26–27, 59, 96, 104, 128, 130, 133, 135, 156, 197, 234
sexually transmitted diseases contracted by Ogorzow, 232–233, 234, 235, 241
sexual motive possibility, 137–139
sexual offender announcement, 83–84
Shirer, William, 35–36, 37–38

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