Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen (47 page)

Schröder, Robert (Scharpwinkel’s driver), xiv, 186, 189–190

Schulz, Angela (Emil’s wife), 156, 157, 159–160

Schulz, Emil (Saarbrücken
Kripo)

Bushell and Scheidhauer murders, 157–160, 218, 224

Schumacher, Hans (Breslau
Kripo),
xiv, 174–175

Schwarzer, Fritz (Roemer’s driver), xv, 76, 79–80, 162

Scotland, A. O. (Lieutenant Colonel)

background of, 91, 92

London Cage and, 91, 92, 93, 94, 185, 192–193, 212, 227–228

Sagan Case trial, 227–228, 229

Second World War (WWII), 91, 235.
See also
Great Escape, The

Seetzen, Heinrich (Breslau Security Police), xiv, 53–54, 58, 219

sentences, Sagan Case trial, 230, 231, 233

Serbian POWs, 120

Shand, M. M. (Flight Lieutenant), 245, 246

“Sherlock Holmes,” 33.
See also
McKenna, Francis P. (Squadron Leader)

SIB.
See
Special Investigating Branch

Sicherheitsdienst
(SD), 53

Siedwidski (General), 106

Skanziklas, Sortiros “Nick” (Pilot Officer),
ix,
188, 242

Smit, Wilhelm (Sergeant), xiii.
See also
Special Investigating Branch (SIB), RAF

Absalon and, 43, 44, 45

background of, 42

Courtney and, 62

McKenna and, 47, 57, 58, 59

solitary confinement for POWs, 144, 145, 146

South Africa, 100, 108, 111

South African murdered escapees, 31.
See also specific murdered escapees

South African Territories, Ltd., 91

Soviet Union.
See
Russia/Russians

Spain, 17, 34

Spann, Leopold (Saarbrücken Gestapo)

Bushell and Scheidhauer murders, 98, 149, 150–151, 152–153, 153–156, 157, 158

death of, 162

“spasmodic” quality of investigation, 219

Special Air Service (SAS), 130, 131, 199

Special Investigating Branch (SIB), RAF.
See also
Bowes, Wilfred “Freddie” (Wing Commander); Courtney, Stephen (Flight Lieutenant); Great Escape, The; Lyon, A. R. (Flight Lieutenant); McKenna, Francis P. (Squadron Leader); Smit, Wilhelm (Sergeant); Williams, H. J. (Flight Sergeant);
specific murdered escapees and team members

final report on Sagan Case, 222

headquarters, 33

obstacles to investigation, 34, 35, 38, 40, 42, 46–47, 63, 96, 99–100, 180, 187, 188, 189

reconstruction of Kidder and Kirby-Green murders, 82,
82

Royal Air Force Investigation Team, xiii, 163, 219, 233

success of, 233

Spires (Lieutenant), 247

Spitfire fighters, 2, 3, 204, 205

Stalag Luft I, 147, 247

Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luft III), 1–2, 106–107, 147, 191, 234,
234,
235.
See also
Great Escape, The

Stalag VIII-B, 144

Stege, Inge, 216

Stevens, Rupert (Lieutenant),
ix,
242

background of, 108–109

escape from Stalag Luft III, 108, 109

murder of, 109, 113, 114, 115–118, 121–127, 224, 229, 230, 232

recapture of, 111

Stewart, Robert (Flying Officer),
ix,
41, 189, 242

Stirling fighters, 27

“stooges” (prisoner lookouts), 5

Stower, John (Flying Officer),
ix,
100–101, 101–103, 104, 242

Strasbourg (Gestapo and
Kripo),
xvi, 192, 193, 195, 197, 198

Street, Denys (Flying Officer),
ix,
243

Struve, Wilhelm (Kiel Gestapo driver), xv

Christensen, Espelid, and Fuglesang murders, 24, 209, 212–213, 224

Stufe Römisch III
order, 15

Sturmbannführers,
104, 105

Stuttgart, Germany, 38, 99, 138

Sunday Times,
95

superior orders plea, 224, 225–226, 228, 229, 230

survivor escapees (three), 17, 33–34

Swain, Cyril (Flight Lieutenant),
ix,
172, 189, 243

Sweden, 17, 20, 21, 33

Swedish Mission Hostel, 52

Swiss Protecting Power, 30–31

Switzerland, 31, 109, 130, 146

Tate, Tom, 143–144

Taylor (Sergeant), 52–54, 58

theater and Post, 23, 27

Third Army (U.S.), 73, 119–121, 140

Thomas, W. P. (Squadron Leader), xiii, 61

Thompson, Alfred (Flight Lieutenant), 173

Tischendorf, Wilhelm (Russian undertaker), 25, 27, 206–207

Tobolski, Pawel (Flying Officer),
ix,
243

Tomahawk fighters, 108

Tom tunnel, 4, 8–9

Tonder, I. P. (Flight Lieutenant), 101–103

torture allegations, London Cage, 227–228, 229

Tunisia, 119

tunneling difficulty, 1–2, 4–6, 7, 8

Ukrainians, 168, 169, 231

underground microphones, 2, 4, 8

University of Breslau, 49

Urbanek (Brno Gestapo), 81

urns of murdered escapees, 27, 31, 40, 41, 84, 96, 101, 103, 104, 109, 112, 130, 136, 150, 169, 171–172, 173, 174, 199, 201, 206, 209

USSR.
See
Russia/Russians

Vaca (Captain), 76–77

Valenta, Ernst “Wally” (Flying Officer),
ix,
11, 65, 172, 189, 243

van der Bijil, F. V. (Czech lawyer), 64, 65–67, 72

Van der Stok, Bram (Flight Lieutenant, Dutch), 33–34

Van Giessen, J. (Sergeant), xiii, 137, 140, 156, 205, 207

Vasilievich, Gershkov Michael, 187

Venediger, Günther (Danzig Gestapo), xv, 97–98, 163, 168, 169–170, 219, 232

victory (symbolic), Great Escape as, 234–235

Volkssturm
(Home Guard), 174

Vosges Mountains, 130, 132, 135

Vreugdenhil (Lieutenant Colonel), 86

Wacker, Ferdinand (Home Guard), 193–194

Walde, Ernst Richard (Colonel), 63

Walenn, Gilbert (Flight Lieutenant), 96, 162–170, 231, 243

Walenn, Tim (Flight Lieutenant),
ix,
6–7

Walker, D. J. (Flying Officer), xiii, 163

“war crime,” 226

war crime charges, Sagan Case trial, 224, 225, 230

War Criminals Holding Centre, Minden, 40, 87, 88, 90, 117, 124, 137, 140, 141, 153, 158, 161, 168, 200, 209, 220

War Office, 91, 92, 95

waste sacks escapes, 247

Waters, John (Lieutenant Colonel), 120

Wehrmacht,
49, 56, 149, 150

Weil, Emil (Munich Gestapo), xvi

Gouws and Stevens murders, 113, 114, 115–117, 122, 123–124, 125, 126, 127, 224, 230

Weissmann, Robert (Liberec Gestapo), xvi, 104, 104n

Wellington bombers, 68, 70, 192

Welter (Mülhausen Gendarmerie), 193–194

Wernham, James (Flight Lieutenant),
ix,
188, 243

Wesermünde, Germany, 81, 87, 88, 216

Weyland, Robert (Liberec Gestapo), xvi, 104, 104n

Whitley bombers, 129

Wieczorek, Erwin (Breslau SS), xiv, 188, 231

Wielen, Max (Breslau
Kripo),
xiv

Grossfahndung
order, 14, 36, 176, 225

Müller and, 230

Nebe and, 16–17, 34, 230

Sagan Case trial, 225, 230, 233

Scharpwinkel and, 185

Wiley, George (Flight Lieutenant),
ix,
186, 243

Williams, H. J. (Flight Sergeant), xiii.
See also
Special Investigating Branch (SIB), RAF

cremation receipts, 115

Gassner interrogation, 110–112

McKenna and, 35, 36–37, 38, 39–40, 42, 44, 45

Peters interrogation, 197–199

Schulz interrogation, 156, 157, 158

Williams, John E. (Squadron Leader),
ix,
100–101, 102, 103, 104, 243

Williams, John F. (Flight Lieutenant),
ix,
243

Wilson, D.E.L. (Group Captain), 30, 31

winter of 1946-1947 (Germany), 213–214

Winter Olympics (1936), 110

Wochner, Magnus (camp registrar at Natzweiler), xv, 137, 138

World War I (First World War), 27, 91, 206, 226

World War II (Second World War), 91, 235.
See also
Great Escape, The

X-Organization, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 204

Zacharias, Erich (Zlín Frontier Police), xv

Czech girl raped and murdered by, 93–94

escapes by, 87–88, 93, 94–95, 152,
152

Kidder and Kirby-Green murders, 66–67, 75, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82–83, 84, 85, 86–89, 90, 93–94, 152, 224

Kiowsky and, 88, 89

Sagan Case trial, 224, 227, 228, 230

Zafouk, Jack, 147

Zembrodt, Hubertus, 51, 55–57

Ziegler, Hans (Zlín Frontier Police), xiv

death of, 223

Kidder and Kirby-Green murders, 67, 72, 73–74, 77, 78–79, 80–81, 82–83, 84, 88, 89, 162, 219–220, 227

Zlín.
See also
Brno/Zlín (Gestapo and
Kripo
)

Frontier Police interrogations, 77–81

Gestapo headquarters, 81–83