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As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II, mass rapes of women took place both in connection with combat operations and during the subsequent occupation of Germany by soldiers from all advancing Allied armies, although a majority of scholars agree that the records show that a majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet occupation troops. [1]
Hoheneck Women's Prison (German: Frauengefängnis Hoheneck) was a women's correctional facility in operation between 1862 and 2001 in Stollberg, Germany. It became most notable as a detention facility for female political prisoners in East Germany. The prison was designed to hold up to 600 inmates, however, as many as 1,600 were detained there. [1]
Although the Mauthausen camp complex was mostly a labour camp for men, a women's camp was opened in Mauthausen, in September 1944, with the first transport of female prisoners from Auschwitz. Eventually, more women and children came to Mauthausen from Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald. Along with the female prisoners came ...
Ravensbrück (pronounced [ˌʁaːvn̩sˈbʁʏk]) was a Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel).
Migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq are housed within a refugee shelter in Starstedt, Germany while their asylum applications are being processed. A look at life inside a German refugee shelter
History of forced confinement in Moringen goes back to an orphanage established in 1738 [3] or 1732. [4] In 1818 Kingdom of Hanover took over the property for a prison. [3] By 1838 it housed a "police workhouse" [3] [4] for the "depraved and dangerous" men and women - tramps, prostitutes and beggars; [4] by 1885, [4] when Hanover was incorporated into the German Empire, it was renamed ...
Women prisoners held in the Third U.S. Army enclosure at Regensburg, Germany, 8 May 1945. The exposed conditions within Sinzig POW camp, 16 May 1945. Throughout the summer of 1945, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was prevented from visiting prisoners in any of the Allies' Rheinwiesenlager .
In 2006, 84-year-old San Francisco resident Elfriede Rinkel was deported by the US Justice Department to Germany; Rinkel had worked at Ravensbrück from June 1944 to April 1945, and had used an SS-trained dog in the camp. She had hidden her secret for more than 60 years from her family, friends and Jewish-German husband Fred.