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In April 1945, Volkenrath was arrested by the British Army, and was tried in the Belsen trial, at which she was convicted of war crimes. Sentenced to death , she was executed by hanging at Hamelin Prison by Albert Pierrepoint on 13 December 1945.
Elisabeth Volkenrath (Świerzawa, 5 de setembro de 1919 – Hameln, 13 de dezembro de 1945) foi uma integrante da SS, que trabalhou como supervisora em diversos campos de concentração durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.
4 de jun. de 2018 · Elisabeth Volkenrath was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. She was executed by the hangman Albert Pierrepoint, the most efficient executioner in British history, on December 13, 1945. Pierrepoint was brought from Britain to execute the most notorious Nazi criminals after their trials.
1 de jul. de 2020 · Ainda em novembro de 1945, Elisabeth Volkenrath foi condenada à morte por enforcamento. Um mês depois, o carrasco britânico Albert Pierrepoint executou a sentença do júri, na prisão de Hameln.
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Female guards were generally from the lower to middle class and had no relevant work experience; their occupational background varied: one source mentions former matrons, hairdressers, tramcar-conductresses, opera singers or retired teachers. Volunteers were recruited via advertisements in German newspapers asking for women to show their love for t...
Female guards were collectively known as SS-Helferin[clarification needed] (German: "SS Helper women"). The supervisory levels within the SS-Helferinwere as follows: 1. Chef Oberaufseherin, "Chief Senior Overseer" [Ravensbrück] 2. Lagerführerin, "Camp Leader" 3. Oberaufseherin, "Senior Overseer" 4. Erstaufseherin, "First Guard" [Senior Overseer in ...
Relations between SS men and female guards are said to have existed in many of the camps, and Heinrich Himmler had told the SS men to regard the female guards as equals and comrades. At the relatively small Helmbrechts subcamp near Hof, Germany, the camp commandant, Wilhelm Dörr, openly pursued a sexual relationship with the head female overseer He...
Near the end of the war, women were forced from factories in the German Labour Exchange and sent to training centres. Women were also trained on a smaller scale at the camps of Neuengamme; Auschwitz I, II, and III; Flossenbürg (as well as Dresden-Goehle, Holleischen and Zwodau); Gross Rosen (as well as its satellites in Langenbielau, Ober Hohenelbe...
In 1996, a story broke in Germany about Margot Pietzner (married name Kunz), a former Aufseherin from Ravensbrück, the Belzig subcamp and a subcamp at Wittenberg. She was originally sentenced to death by a Soviet court, but it was commuted to a life sentence, and she was released in 1956. In the early 1990s, at the age of 74, Pietzner was awarded t...
Aroneanu, Eugene, ed. Inside the Concentration CampsTrans. Thomas Whissen. New York: Praeger, 1996.Brown, Daniel Patrick, The Camp Women. The Female Auxiliaries Who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2002. ISBN 0-7643-1444-0Hart, Kitty. Return to Auschwitz: The Remarkable Story of a Girl Who Survived the Holocaust. New York: Atheneum, 1983.G. Álvarez, Mónica. "Guardianas Nazis. El lado femenino del mal" (Spanish). Madrid: Grupo Edaf, 2012. ISBN 978-84-414-3240-6Volkenrath was convicted of numerous murders and for making selections of prisoners for the gas chamber. She, under nr 11, was sentenced to death executed at Hamelin Prison by the English executioner, Albert Pierrepoint
7 de abr. de 2021 · Elisabeth Volkenrath during her trial in 1945. She was described by survivors as 'the most hated woman in the camp.' After hanging the women he took a tea break before adjusting the gallows for the next in line, the men. The mission Pierrepoint was sent on in December 1945 was without precedent.
