The women guards of Nazi concentration camps: the faces of evil.
📷 Helene Kopper (left), sentenced to 15 years imprisonment; Juana Bormann (right), sentenced to death.
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📷 Helene Kopper (left), sentenced to 15 years imprisonment; Juana Bormann (right), sentenced to death.
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Herta Ehlert, a former bakery saleswoman, began her criminal career in November 1939, when she became a Nazi guard at Ravensbrück. She went on to work in other camps too, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
She was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, and died aged 92.
She was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, and died aged 92.
Ilse Forster received a 10-year prison sentence for her role as a guard at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Hildegard Lohbauer worked as an assistant to Dr Fritz Klein (hanged for his role in atrocities at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen). She was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. However, her sentence was reduced to seven years, and she was released early, in July 1950.
Elizabeth Volkenrath was a German supervisor at several concentration camps. She was hanged on 13 December 1945.
One of the most evil and sadistic concentration camp guards was Irma Grese, who earned the nickname 'Hyena of Auschwitz' for her brutal treatment of prisoners. She was eventually tried, convicted, and executed at the age of 22.
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