Female guards were generally from the lower to middle classes. and had no relevant work experience; their … See more

Female guards were collectively known as SS-Helferin (German: "SS Helper women"). The supervisory levels within the SS-Helferin were as follows:
1. Chef Oberaufseherin, "Chief Senior Overseer" [… See more

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 … See more

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… See more

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 b… See more

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