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  2. Hoheneck Fortress - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Cornelia Rau - Wikipedia

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    While in prison, Rau was met by Debbie Kilroy, who ran an organisation called Sisters Inside, to support women in prison. Kilroy first met her in early May, when Rau had been without medication for two months. Rau identified herself to Kilroy as Anna, but spoke to her in fluent English with an Australian accent.

  4. Category:Women's prisons in Germany - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Women's prisons in Germany" This category contains only the following page. ... Barnimstrasse women's prison This page was last ...

  5. Prisons in Germany - Wikipedia

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    A large proportion of German prisoners are foreigners; over 15,000 in 2023, about 35% of the prison population. [9] In 2019, all states of Germany reported an increase in the share of foreign and stateless inmates in the Prisons in Germany in the preceding 3-5 year period, with the proportion of foreign prisoners above half in several states.

  6. Marianne Bachmeier - Wikipedia

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    Marianne Bachmeier (3 June 1950 – 17 September 1996) was a West German vigilante.She shot and killed Klaus Grabowski, a man on trial for the rape and murder of her daughter Anna (14 November 1972 – 5 May 1980), in an act of vigilantism in the District Court of Lübeck in 1981, when she was 31.

  7. Barnimstrasse women's prison - Wikipedia

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    Barnimstrasse women's prison was a women's prison that existed between 1868 and 1974 in Barnimstraße in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, which belonged first to the Königsstadt and from 1920 to the Friedrichshain district. [1] A view of the cell corridor in 1931 Interior view of the cell in 1931 Library of Barnimstrasse. The typist has ...

  8. Mildred Gillars - Wikipedia

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    Having converted to Catholicism while in prison, Gillars went to live at the Our Lady of Bethlehem Convent in Columbus, Ohio, and taught German, French, and music at St. Joseph Academy, Columbus. [39] In 1973, aged 72, she returned to Ohio Wesleyan University to complete her degree, a Bachelor of Arts in speech. [40]

  9. Herta Oberheuser - Wikipedia

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    Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. [1] For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Doctors' Trial, but served only five years of her sentence. A ...