Sick Man

Josef Fritzl blamed the Nazis for fostering the twisted morality that led him to imprison his daughter, Elisabeth, in a cellar for 24 years. He also said he had "rescued" Elisabeth, who was then 18, to keep her from "going out to seedy bars" and "drinking and smoking". The claims came in notes written from his cell and released through Rudolf Mayer, Fritzl's lawyer, who claimed that they revealed the extent of his client's insanity.

Fritzl said he had never intended to rape her – as he was "not a man to abuse children" – but felt an "overpowering" desire for "a taste of the forbidden".
He added that he raped her while thinking of his own "lonely" childhood and said he "wanted them [the other children] to always have someone to play with".
He said he knew that his daughter, who he described as a "superb housewife and mother", was suffering as he raped her but he could not stop himself.
Fritzl also admitted incestuous feelings for his mother – whom he described as "the greatest woman in the world".

Fritzl wrote: "I have always had high regard for decency and uprightness. I was growing up in Nazi times, when hard discipline was a very important thing. I belong to an old school of thinking that just does not exist today.
"I grew up in the Nazi times and that meant there needed to be control and the respect of authority. I suppose I took on some of these old values with me into later life, all subconsciously, of course."
He claimed that he kidnapped the teenage Elisabeth to keep her away from alcohol and bad company.
"When she got into puberty, she stopped obeying any rules," he said. "She was going out to seedy bars and would spend whole nights there drinking and smoking. I only tried to rescue her from that life. She even ran away from home twice.
"I was forced to act. I had to create a place where I could keep Elisabeth separated from that world, and I was ready to use force."


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