September 29, 1912 - Paul Ogorzow
His position as a railway worker gave him intimate knowledge of the S-Bahn system and, crucially, the trust of those around him — advantages he used methodically over roughly two years of attacks. The wartime blackouts that shaped daily life in Berlin also provided the conditions he depended on, obscuring his movements and isolating his victims. The women he targeted were already contending with the upheaval of wartime: traveling alone out of necessity, their husbands absent on the front.
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Paul Ogorzow (born Paul Saga; 29 September 1912 – 26 July 1941), also known as the S-Bahn Murderer, was a German serial killer and rapist who was active in Nazi-era Berlin between 1939 and 1941, during the height of the Second World War. An employee of Deutsche Reichsbahn, he exploited the regular wartime blackouts to commit numerous murders and sex crimes, mostly targeting lone female passengers travelling aboard Berlin's S-Bahn commuter rail system, and solitary housewives whose husbands had been called up for military service. Following his arrest by the Kriminalpolizei, Ogorzow was convicted of killing eight women and executed by guillotine at Plötzensee Prison.
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