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In five and half years, Landsberg Prison was the place of execution of 252 condemned war criminals, all of them by hanging. [4] Executions were carried out expeditiously. In May 1946, 28 former SS guards from Dachau were hanged within a four-day period. [ 5 ]
In the foreground, from left to right, are female camp overseers Barkmann, Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, and Gerda Steinhoff. Barkmann was publicly executed by short-drop hanging along with ten other defendants from the trial on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk on 4 July 1946. [ 4 ]
Violette Morris (18 April 1893 – 26 April 1944) was a French athlete and Nazi collaborator who won two gold and one silver medal at the Women's World Games in 1921–1922. She was later banned from competing for violating "moral standards". She was invited to the 1936 Summer Olympics by Adolf Hitler and was an honored guest.
Killing of two pregnant female prisoners by injection, preparing the execution of seven mentally ill prisoners, participation in executions to confirm the death of the executed Death, executed on 29 May 1946 Johann Viktor Kirsch [de; pl; it] SS-Hauptscharführer Commander of subcamp Kaufering Nr. 1
Between 2000 and 5000 men lived there; in February 1945, 200 women also arrived there. Because of overcrowding, Kaufering XI was established and some prisoners moved. [ 15 ] A group of seven Hungarian Jewish women, known as the "Schwangerenkommando" (pregnancy unit), who had conceived before their deportation to Auschwitz, was allowed to remain ...
Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and a war criminal known for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, [1] where she is believed to have been directly complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 prisoners. [2]
[citation needed] In April 1945, Paradies accompanied one of the last transports of women prisoners to the Lauenburg subcamp and fled. After she was captured, she was a defendant in the Stutthof trial. One witness testified: "She ordered a group of female prisoners to undress in the freezing cold of winter, and then doused them with ice cold water.
Michael Pellis, a former inmate at Dachau, identifies former SS-Obersturmführer Friedrich Wilhelm Ruppert as the man responsible for selection at Dachau. Friedrich Wilhelm Ruppert (February 2, 1905 – May 28, 1946) was an SS-TV Obersturmbannführer (paramilitary rank equivalent to lieutenant colonel) in charge of executions at Dachau concentration camp; he was, along with others, responsible ...