The Executions Of The Most Brutal Female Nazis – History Documentary JJ

They were some of the most evil and violent women who inflicted such suffering onto others during World War II. Many women felt like they wanted to join the Nazi party and they were compelled to then take up a role inside of the regime. Some became female concentration camp guards and with insights such as Bergen Bellson and Avitz, they became notorious for their violent nature, their beatings, and the fact they could end a life if they just felt like it.

Many of the most evil female Nazis had from a young age been brainwashed into the politics of the party and they fully engaged with the terrible policies. But at the end of World War II, many of these women were sentenced to death and were executed for their crimes. Some were even executed in public. This is the story of those women’s executions.

Irma Graves was the youngest woman to be executed under British law in the 20th century and she was hanged by executioner Albert Perpoint, a man who was considered an expert in using the long drop gallows. Peer point days before the execution had taken place had met with each of the defendants including Graaser and he had taken their weight and height and expertly calculated the drop required to bring their lives to end quickly.

That was the aim to bring about near instantaneous death. But Herma Graaser the hyena of Ashvitz was a very young woman but she was known for being one of the most sadistic Nazi war criminals. But why specifically was the gallows and the long drop hanging selected for her execution? And why wasn’t she, let’s say, shot? McGrazer, as a young woman, actually tried to train as a nurse following a number of other jobs, but she was rejected by this, specifically by the physician of the head of the SS, Carl Ghart.

Ghart had served him for many years and he said that Graaser did not meet his expectations and she was then put in touch with people who worked inside of the concentration camp industries. When she became of age to apply, Emma Graater transferred to Ravensburg concentration camp to train how to become a female guard or an alserin.

She at this time fell out with her father as he became greatly distressed by the fact his daughter joined the SS Retinu and Graaser then returned to Ravensbrook before she was moved across to Ashvitz concentration camp. At this time Ashvitz was expanding massively and one of the biggest additions to the site was the opening of the women’s camp which needed many female guards to come and staff it.

Irma Graaser held many jobs inside of Ashvitz. She began working as a telephone operator, but she was then sent to oversee the punishment detail, those prisoners who were known troublemakers. In this capacity, she began to commit extreme acts of violence, and she often patrolled with a rubber tunchon, a whip, and a pistol.

Grazer would batter and beat prisoners to death, and she also at times randomly shot prisoners whom she thought were not working hard enough. All of this led to her gaining the reputation for being the beautiful beast and a woman who could take life with the click of her fingers. One of her other responsibilities was to oversee selections.

When new arrivals got to the camp, Graaser would select those who were not fit enough to work to be sent straight to the gas chambers. If someone looked at her the wrong way, then they were quickly driven towards the chambers of death. One prisoner claimed about her brutality that, I quote, “She was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.

Her body was perfect in every line, her face clear, and angelic, and her blue eyes the happiest, the most innocent eyes one can imagine. And yet, Irma Graaser was the most depraved, cruel, imaginative pervert I ever came across. She was mesmerized by watching horrific human medical experimentations and became transfixed on them. She was also known for beating and striking prisoners with her own hands.

Her death toll was certainly in the hundreds if not the thousands and Graaser had been personally responsible for these deaths. She was transferred in the final months of the war to Bergen Bellson concentration camp and she continued her reign of brutality there. She continued to torture and commit sadistic acts against prisoners and she forced half-dead typhus infected inmates to partake in pointless physical exercises which led to more death from exhaustion.

At the end of World War II, Graaser was captured by the British who liberated Bergen Bellson. She could have had the chance to escape but chose to remain at the camp. She had even tried to attack a British officer when she was arrested and she was restrained. At the Bellson trials, Graves was charged with war crimes committed at Bergen Bellson and also Avitz and she defended herself blaming Hinrich Kimler, the head of the SS for everything that had happened.

She appeared cold and arrogant at trial and she was also rather confrontational. She was found guilty of both war crimes charges on day 54 of the Bellson trials and when she found out she was to be hanged she showed some emotion and broke out in tears which were interpreted as tears of fear. She applied for clemency but this was rejected and shortly before her execution she was transferred over to Hamlin prison.

On the morning of the 13th of December 1945, Irma Grace was taken from her small prison cell on death row and she was then marched towards her execution chamber. In the days before, the British executioner Albert Perpoint had met with her and he took her weight and height and then calculated the drop required to snap her neck and then hopefully bring about a rather instant death.

Perpoint on the day of execution claimed that Grazer’s final word was schnell, meaning quick in German. Perpoint wanted to hang her first as she was the youngest prisoner on the list at 22 years old and as she was a woman, but the first execution was actually that of Elizabeth Falconrath. Grazer was led into the execution chamber and was quickly led up onto the gallows.

Perpoint marked a chalk X on the floor for her to stand on, and her arms and legs had been secured, so she fell through the trap door on the gallows without struggle. Perpoint then placed a white cap over her head, and then the noose, and quickly, after performing a few checks, he pushed a lever, which opened the trap door, and Irma Graaser went crashing through the gallows to her death, and her neck was instantly snapped.

But why specifically was she executed in this manner? Irma Graaser was executed by long drop hanging primarily because it was the standard civilian method of execution and capital punishment in Britain at the time. After the second world war, Graves was tried by the British military court at the Boston trials, but her sentence was carried out inside Hanland prison which was under British control.

In Britain, hanging was the legally established form of execution for murder and war crimes cases that ended in death sentences under British jurisdiction. Unlike some countries that used firing squads for military offenders, British authorities traditionally relied on the gallows. This meant that once Grazer was condemned, the method of execution was largely determined by British legal practice rather than by her gender, nationality, or specifically the horrors of her crimes.

The British state saw hanging as recognized orderly and as a lawful way to enforce a death sentence. Another reason was that the long drop method was considered more humane and efficient than older forms of hanging. Earlier short drop hangings often caused slow strangulation which could take several minutes and was widely criticized as cruel.

By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, British executioners increasingly used the long drop system designed to break the neck rapidly by calculating the prisoner’s weight and the correct drop distance. In theory, this caused immediate unconsciousness and a quicker death. Since Amma Grazer was executed in December 1945, British officials used modern procedures, then accepted as the most professional and controlled means of carrying out executions.

Even in the case of notorious war criminals, the authorities wish to avoid unnecessary suffering or a chaotic spectacle. A further reason was the British desire to demonstrate justice through discipline and legality rather than revenge. The crimes associated with Bergen Bellson and Avitz had shocked the world and there was a huge amount of anger towards those found guilty.

Yet the British authorities wanted the executions to show that even those accused of monstrous atrocities would be punished for a formal judicial process. By using the same gallows procedure employed in other capital cases, the British state presented itself as acting under law rather than mob fury. Grazer’s execution was therefore symbolic as well as practical.

It showed that Britain would punish war criminals severely but through courts, sentences and established methods rather than arbitrary violence. Finally, long drop hanging was used because, well, the British had experienced execution personnel and facilities to readily carry it out. The execution was conducted by Albert Perpoint, Britain’s most famous executioner, who had extensive experience and later carried out many post-war executions of more Nazi war criminals.

Hamlin prison had the secure environment and gallows necessary for such sentences. In the unstable aftermath of the war, authorities needed a reliable method that could be performed privately, efficiently, and with minimal risk of disorder. hanging met those needs. For British officials, it was not simply punishment, but a practical system already in place, allowing them to carry out sentences on convicted war criminals such as Graaser with speed and certainty.

But she was one of the most notorious female guards of the Second World War, and her name lived on infamy for the brutal and evil crimes she committed inside of Ashvitz and also inside Berg and Bellson. Mrs. would not be shot, but instead was hanged like a criminal. And that is truly what she was.

A criminal who conducted horrific and terrible actions with the Nazi regime, allowing her to become such a sadist. Born Elizabeth Merllo, she was a daughter of a forest worker, and Elizabeth was part of a large family having a number of siblings. After she finished school, she worked as a nanny and a cook.

from 1933 to May 1938 and then afterwards she became a hairdresser. Before the Second World War occurred, she became inspired with the politics of the Nazi party and became ingrained with the policies outlined by Adolf Hitler. She signed up for the SS Retinu at the start of October 1941 and worked as an overseer initially at Ravensbrook concentration camp.

Ravensbrook was a camp strictly for female prisoners that was opened by the Nazis and she worked under Dorafa bins. She was trained to be an alsan and she had to keep an eye on the prisoners to ensure that no one escaped. In March 1942, Elizabeth Falconrath applied for a transfer from Ravensbrook to Ashvitz, the huge extermination and labor complex in which the final solution was implemented within.

It was planned for Ashvitz to be one of the main extermination camps responsible for massacring as many people as the Nazis required. Vulcanrath became a guard in the prisoners Taylor shop inside of the camp and then after in August 1942 she was transferred to the women’s area Burkanau. Burkanau was the main extermination element of Ashvitz but shortly after she was taken ill.

Elizabeth Falconrath was stricken down with a case of typhus and ended up in hospital. After this, she took office inside the parcel post in Burkanau from the end of December 1942. Here she monitored up to 30 prisoners and she would inspect different packages coming into the camp. She ordered the prisoners to inspect the packages that were coming in, many from the Red Cross, and then the goods inside these would be distributed.

Vulcanrath was also tasked with handing out bread inside of the camp. She remained at Ashvitz Burkanau until September 1944 and was then transferred back to Ashvitz one becoming the camp leader of the women’s area. She was promoted to the superintendent of the women’s camp and remained in this position until Ashvitz was evacuated.

In terms of what Elizabeth Falconra did at Ashvitz and other camps, she was accused of a number of despicable actions. She was accused at her trial of taking part in the selection processes. This is where prisoners would arrive at the camp by train and those who were simply not fit enough to work would be sent straight to their deaths inside of the gas chambers.

Vulcanrath was accused of choosing those inmates to be killed immediately, but she would deny this like so many SS guards would at trial. She was also accused of helping to load prisoners onto transports and lries which would take them straight to the gas chambers after their fates had been decided. She did claim that she did not know where the lries were heading.

The most shocking claims about Elizabeth Falenra relate to her inhumane and cruel treatment of prisoners while she worked in the women’s section of Ashvitz. It was said by a number of witnesses that she had a habit of beating women and she admitted that she did slap the faces of many women whilst working as a guard.

A lady via a fisher stated that she was once beaten so severely by Vulcanra that she was placed in hospital for 3 weeks. It was also claimed that on around 80 occasions she was witnessed beating women prisoners until they were unconscious and that armed with a rubber trenchon she even beat many women to death.

Helen Herkovich stated in evidence against Vulcanrath that she was questioned about a ring and a locket she was wearing. And after this, she was forced to run behind a bicycle to the SS headquarters where Vulcanra was. There she beat her with a rubber tunchon and she was placed in a cellar and given bread and water every 3 days.

She was then forced to work in the toilets where she caught typhus and almost died. The accusations continued with Vulcan accused of throwing an old woman down flight of stairs near to the workshop where the old lady then died immediately. Also, she took food and water away from prisoners as well as other supplies, leaving them with very little to survive on.

Vulcanrath also imposed making sport where prisoners were forced to take part in grueling exercises in a group form of punishment. And sometimes these punishments were so severe that prisoners died from exhaustion. Vulcan in terms of her conduct was also later accused of striking women so hard that they would be knocked down to the ground and would be out cold.

It was stated that she once caught a girl who was sick taking some vegetables and Vulcan made her kneel down and hold the stolen goods above her head for 4 hours until she could no longer hold her arms up. After this, she took her rubber trenchon to her and knocked the poor girl unconscious, and it was instructed that no one could help her until nightfall.

She was known for being a brutal and savage guard, who would happily beat prisoners unconscious and sometimes even to death, imposing a reign of terror onto those poor people inside of the camps. After Ashvitz was evacuated, Elizabeth Falconrath was sent to Bergen Bellson concentration camp on the 5th of February 1945 and she worked under the beast of Bellson camp commonant Yosef Kramer.

She stated that once again she fell ill from Typhus after a few days of arriving at Bellson and it’s clear that there was a rife typhus epidemic sweeping the camp. The state of Belson at this time in the war was shocking with much hunger and desperation all around. On the 15th of April 1945, Bergen Bellson was liberated by the British.

As they entered the camp, they found around 10,000 corpses and around 60,000 prisoners clinging to life. Also at the camp, there were a number of guards who had stayed there rather than flee. And one of these was Elizabeth Valenra. She was taken to the cellar prison shortly after she was forced by the British to remove all of the corpses and bury them in mass graves.

Whilst in prison, she was interrogated, and through prisoner testimonies, it was clear what a brutal and barbaric woman she clearly was. Prisoners from Bellson and Ashvitz told of her beatings and her first for violence at such a young age. She was then placed on trial at the Bellson trial, which began on September the 17, 1945 at Lernerberg.

She was charged with crimes committed at Ashvitz and Bellson and chose to plead not guilty. Vulcanrath did admit that she attended selections at Ashvitz but denied participating and also said how she did not know about the gas chambers. She admitted to slapping inmates and stated that the mistreatment of prisoners was a lie.

Vulcanrath even went as far to say that she had been punished in the fact she had to live like the prisoners. Along with two other women and a host of other males such as Joseph Kramer, Elizabeth Falconrath was sentenced to death for her crimes. On the 13th of December 1945 at Hamlin Prison, she was taken out of her cell to the execution chamber.

Her execution was to be performed by British executioner Albert Perpoint using the long drop method on a specially built scaffold. Perpoint and his assistant met previously with all of the condemned to calculate their height, weight, and the subsequent drop needed to snap their necks and kill them. Peer point on simultaneous gallows performed the execution of those condemned during the Bellson trials.

However, the women condemned would go first. The first of the women to die was Vulcanrath. She was brought into the chamber and taken up the stairs to the gallows. At 9:34 a.m., she was placed over a trap door in which Perpoint had written a chalk X on the ground. A cap was placed over her head as was the noose and in seconds the death of Elizabeth Valenrath occurred with her neck slapping instantly.

She was then declared dead and her remains were cremated. What is shocking about Elizabeth Valenrath is the immense of brutality she had at such a young age. When she was taken to the gallows, she was merely just a 26 year old woman. When she committed many of her crimes in Ashvitz, she would have been younger and she first worked in a concentration camp at the age of 22.

It seems that despite volunteering, she had a real passion for inflicting barbaric punishment onto prisoners, and she seemed like a woman desperate to wield her power over the innocent suffering. Throughout World War II, Hitler ordered his army to rampage into different lands and territories, and these were then brought to heal in terrifying and brutal occupations, which resulted in much death and bloodshed.

Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Germans, and Hitler in 1939 declared the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and this left the nation powerless to German occupation and governance. And the country was known as the arsenal of the Reich as it was intended to produce a huge amount of armaments, weapons, and equipment for the vermach and overall German war effort.

Ruthless Nazi overseers such as Reinhard Hydrickch were brought in to oversee these nations, and he brought with him a reign of terror which was intended to keep the country productive and to keep the Czech people at heel. Terrifying persecution laws were brought in and it was common to see people hanging in the streets to send a clear message to people to stay in submission and to not resist.

Hera Casperova was born on the 21st of June 1923 in the town of Trest and her father had a humble job working on the railways. However, Hera from birth suffered a disability and she walked with a limp caused by her right leg. And because of this, while she was at school, she was bullied and treated terribly by other students.

Her family spoke Czech and also German. And because of this, when Hitler sees control of the Sudatan land following the Munich conference, she and her family were seen as favorable by Hitler. He wanted German families to live inside of these lands. and Hera was given Reich citizenship because of her German origins and roots.

She was of dual nationality and was also part of Hitler’s Reich. She even changed her surname to Casper to make it sound more German, too. But in 1940, she started a new job inside of an office of the German criminal police in a town named Yhava. And she served as an interpreter. As she could speak Czech and German, she was seen as useful by the Gustapo.

And with this she was involved in interrogations of many Czech people who were suspected of being involved in the resistance. And because of this she was now openly collaborating with the Nazi enemy. The Gustapo were known for roughly treating those who were suspected of being in defiance to the Nazi regime and many people were tortured to death or were executed for their involvement.

Hera was now involved in the business of working for the Gestapo and she was an important cog in securing the deaths of many Czech people. Many of those who worked with the Gustapo, the SS or the Nazis in any capacity were seen as the worst of the worst and many were hunted at the end of the war to be executed for their collaboration with the enemy.

She continued to translate for the Germans for a number of years. But at the end of the second world war, as the Red Army were moving towards Hera’s hometown, she quickly left her job and went back to living with her parents’ interest. But after the Prague uprising, there were many different pockets of resistance interest, and they targeted those who had helped the Germans throughout the occupation.

Different Vermach units then arrived to free a number of imprisoned German people, and Hera Kasparova spoke to the German soldiers about the fact her house had been broken into. She even then identified a number of men and boys who had stolen items. And for this action, she chose 11 people.

And all of those 11 that Hera had chosen were then dragged out to the courtyard of the town hall in her hometown. And they were then executed by a firing squad alongside a number of other rebels. Amongst the executed were allegedly some of the people who bullied her to Casperova at school and she got vengeance against them utilizing the German links that she had to have them shot.

But the Germans also released her from her imprisonment at the hands of the rebels and she then ran off to Austria and served in a number of jobs including working as a cook. But part of her employment saw her working for the Red Army, her enemy. However, in February 1946, she was arrested and was then sent to Czechoslovakia to stand charges relating to being a collaborator with the Germans.

She was placed on trial for the work she conducted alongside the Gustapo as an interpreter and also as someone who was responsible for the executions of those who she had personally identified. At her trial, Hera stated that I know that I caused the death of several people. I acted out of revenge. She was vengeful and she knew she would be condemned.

The court confirmed her darkest fears and sentenced her to death for collaborating with the Nazis and for treason against the checks. Her execution, however, was one which was to be very different, and she was only one of a very few number of women who were executed by pole hanging at the end of the Second World War.

Pole hanging as an execution method was common in Czechoslovakia and Hungary at the end of the war and a number of high-ranking politicians and government officials were executed in this manner instead of using a gallows. Her Casperova was executed that evening after her death sentence had been given to her. She was walked outside to a meadow on the outskirts of Trist close to the castle.

On the day before, the head of the Nazi offices inside of the town was executed in the very same way, and Hera was brought out in front of the huge crowd. The pole hanging post was 3 m tall, and it was 60 cm wide. When she was led up to the post, she lost her calm composure, and her began to scream and shout for her life, and she even fell to the floor as her knees began to shake so much she had to be carried to the execution post by the guards who were with her.

her to wore a short dress to her execution and she continued to cry and scream as she was led up to the execution post. The executioners, seeing her panic, began to work quickly, but they also made sure that everything would be performed correctly and professionally with pole hanging. It relied on a number of steps, and they fastened a lever strap around her chest, which held her in place and in position in the air on the post briefly.

The executioner then secured the rope around her legs and passed it through a pulley system as well as making sure that her to Casperova’s arms were secured together to prevent a cleaner small drop. He then secured the noose around her neck and then checked his work before he signaled that he was ready. The hangman was stood on the step behind her post and the sign was given to the assistant to release the drop and he did so.

The executioner guided Hera’s neck with his hand and dislocated her neck. And with this, she began to twitch and move side to side. But there was a problem as her head began to move significantly and it took a number of minutes for her to be confirmed dead. A number of check doctors came over to her remains and they checked for a heartbeat, but there was nothing.

With this, Hera was then cut down and she was placed inside of a cheap coffin that lay under the pole. And within the coffin, some person had even placed a number of flowers within the wooden box for her. Her remains were carried into the central cemetery in Yilh Harava, and she was interred alongside a number of German soldiers who had died in the local area fighting during the war.

And it’s interesting that she was buried in this place as they saw her as the enemy even in her death. The execution of Hera Casperova was a huge event for the people in the town of Trest and people even brought tickets to secure the best position to see her death. It was almost like a medieval carnival and for those inside of the Czech town, she was seen as the enemy and someone who carried out the evils of the German army and helped the Nazis with their persecuting work.

In the translation work she completed for the Gestapo, she was complicit in the torture of many people and her work helped the Gustapo to execute many accused of resistance. She was executed herself for the collaboration but also for the fact she actively chose 11 men to be executed and many of those were those people who mocked her at school.

She had vengeance for this taunting in the most barbaric way and her to Casper over contributed to a number of war crimes also. But her execution was a huge spectacle and it was one of the final public executions carried out inside of Czechoslovakia. Jenny W Barkman was as a young woman a member of the League of German Maidens, the Teenage Girls Youth Group, which the Nazis later made compulsory.

In this, millions of young women were brainwashed into the Nazi politics and beliefs, and they were told that they were to have as many children with SSmen and Aryans for the Reich as possible. Hitler wanted as big a population as possible, but within the youth groups, many young women were indoctrinated. Jenny Barkman was one of them.

She dreamed after school of being a fashion model, and she was considered by some, and also by the standards of the time, rather good-looking. She did complete a number of photooots, but then in 1944, she decided to get involved in a different career that would define her life and would ultimately send her to the gallows.

In 1944, the 21-year-old young woman signed up to become a member of the SS Retinu, and she then became an Aerin. She trained to become a female guard within the concentration camps, and she may have been lured into this by the enticing forth of better and consistent pay and promotion within the SS’s organizational hierarchy. Jenny was sent to the nearby camp as she was from the Gadansk region, and where she trained was known as Stutto.

Stutto was immensely brutal, and there was a lot of suffering, and around 65,000 people would never make it out of the camp alive. This number equates to around 60% of all of those who were sent to the camp altogether. Stutoff became known for its rough treatment of inmates and the conditions were rough and immensely harsh.

Tens of thousands succumb to disease which spread around the camp and also starvation. Typhus epidemics rampaged throughout the site most years and even the SS guards call this. But the prisoners were given no medical treatment at all. Those who became ill or who were deemed unfit to work, were sent into the small gas chamber within the camp.

Women guards who worked at the site, such as Jenny W Barkman, became known for their evil. And despite preciding over mostly female prisoners, they also condemned many men. Jenny Barkman specifically became known as Mad Jenny, as she was ruthless and immensely violent with her batons and weapons.

She struck prisoners wherever she went and she battered them sometimes to death. Prisoners witnessed her taking lives and then laughing and she also took part in the selections. As previously mentioned, if an inmate was too sick or weak to work, then they were sent to the small gas chamber and the SS guards were those who selected these people for this fate.

Barkman got involved in this and she was the reason why many hundreds of people were gassed as she drove them and ordered them into the chamber. She gained the infamous nickname of the beautiful spectre as inmates remarked about her beauty but also her immense temper and very violent nature.

Jenny Wonder Bachmann was at Stutoff for around a year and she wasn’t a concentration camp guard who worked at many different sites all across Germany like Irma Graasa or Maria Mandel. She also wasn’t involved in the training of other guards too. But as 1945 came around it was very clear that the war was lost for the Germans and because of this many SS guards inside of the camps began to desert their posts in an attempt to evade any form of capture.

Jenny left Stutoff in 1945 and she hid in the region of Gdansk and this was a rather foolish thing for her to have done. In the months before, Stutoff had been evacuated and thousands of people had been killed, many being marched into the nearby sea by SS guards and then machine gunned. But Jenny Wonder Bachmann was known about and local authorities tried to track her down.

She was arrested at a train station attempting to flee and she had managed to hide out for 4 months. She may have been traveling out of the region to continue to hide out elsewhere, but the former prisoners of the camp quickly identified her too. And with this she was arrested and was later brought to the Stutoff trials.

This was one of the first postwar trials and alongside her were a number of other female guards, her colleagues who had too been arrested. At trial, Jenny Wonder Bachmann brazenly ignored many of the questions and she also lied through her teeth. She tried to claim that she had saved a number of prisoners from death and that she had treated them well, but she showed her true colors as she was more bothered about her hair and also were flirting with the court guards than she was her victims.

Her lawyers tried to make out that she was mentally ill. and her lawyer claimed that no sane person would have committed the crimes that she was accused of. She continued to laugh in the face of witnesses and did not ask for forgiveness. With all of the evidence that was very much stacked up against her, Jenny Wonder Bachmann was sentenced to death, and she was specifically to be hanged.

She replied to the death sentence with the chilling words, I quote, “Life is a great pleasure, and pleasure as a rule does not last long.” But she would never have imagined the spectacle that her execution would become. On the 4th of July 1946, a crowd of around 20,000 people at least gathered to witness the executions of the Stut guards.

This took place on Viscupia Gorka, a huge hill and open space where a number of large gallows, five in total, had been built. These weren’t little structures either. They were absolutely huge, possibly 4 m high at least. The aim of these was so that everyone could have a good view of the executions, and they could see that justice was going to be carried out upon the former guards of the local concentration camp.

It became a huge public event. Local people sold food and drink and it was very much like a medieval carnival because for centuries people flocked to see executions. Jenny Wander Barkman was executed first out of the 11 condemned former guards. She was brought out in front of the crowd who jered and taunted her and she was helped onto the back of a truck.

This truck would be the execution scaffold, and whilst on the truck, an official loudly read the death sentence and reminded the crowd of her crimes. The executioner, who was a former prisoner of Stuttoff, dressed in their striped pajamas, secured the noose around her neck. Barkman was then stood on a stool, and slowly the truck drove off, and the noose then snapped tort around her neck.

It took many minutes for her to die as she slowly strangled to death as she struggled in front of the crowd. But why was her execution so public? Well, the people of Gdansk and Poland in particular had suffered significantly during the Second World War. Many of those in the crowd had been prisoners inside the camp where Jenny Bachmann worked, and this for them was revenge.

They wanted to see a woman who had condemned their friends and family members suffer. It was also undeniable that justice had been carried out upon her, and she would not escape her fate either. So, Jenny Wonder Bachmann was one of the most ruthless and evil female concentration camp guards of World War II.

And for her crimes, she paid the ultimate price in front of around 20,000 people. Elizabeth Becca was born on the 20th of July 1923 and she was born in Nutach in Danish. Her family were German and as the Nazis came to power she would then join the League of German girls. This was the girls wing of the Nazi party and it was the only female youth organization in Nazi Germany.

The membership for young women was compulsory and at its height there were over 4.5 million members. The BDM, as it was known, would indoctrinate and brainwash girls into Nazi beliefs and systems. They would also train them for their roles in German society as wives, mothers, and housewives. This is what Hitler wanted.

Women to have as many children for his Reich and empire as possible, who would then be loyal to the dictator and his party. The girls would be forced to learn Nazi songs and sing them. They were also forced to conduct physical education, including track and field. They would also take part in huge sports days.

The League of German girls would even try to discourage the girls to ignore any rebellion against their parents and they wanted them to be more loyal to the Nazis than their own family. Girls also were required to conduct a year of land service where they would work on farms and also in other roles to show their loyalty to the Nazis.

During the outbreak of the Second World War, the girls were told that the invasion of Poland was justified to punish those people who were considered subhuman. The propaganda they were told was ramped up. And because of this, a number of girls who were part of the group, would want to pursue a career inside of the Nazi party’s industries, such as the SS and inside of the concentration camps.

One example of this was Irma Graaser, who would be known as a beautiful beast, and her involvement in the League of German girls would cause her father to throw her out of the family home, but she would become more loyal to Hitler than her own family. She later joined the concentration camp labor force and became a notorious guard.

Other girls would volunteer for the German war effort as nurses and aids inside hospitals, and some even served as anti-aircraft defenders, working as flack helpers and search light operators. Elizabeth Becker as mentioned would join this group at the age of 13 where she was very impressionable and she would become a devoted Nazi.

It is believed it’s likely her family would also be Nazis but in 1938 when she was just 15 she would go and work as a conductor on the tramways in Dansish her hometown. In 1940 she was also then employed in different firms and businesses and she also worked as an agriculture assistant. All of her roles and jobs were inside of her hometown of Dansish, and she did not stray too far from home and from family life.

But then, as the war turned against the Nazis and the Germans, and with a shortage of local men to work inside of the concentration camps, the SS placed adverts around local towns and cities to appeal to German women to train as concentration camp guards. Many women inside of Dansich answered the call, and one of these was Elizabeth Becker.

She may have actually been called up for service too, being requested to work inside of the camps and she may have also had little choice. However, where she would work would be Stuttov concentration camp was created following the invasion of Poland and it was a place where many Polish people would be housed inside of following the invasion.

It became a concentration camp in 1942 and the original camp was surrounded by barb wire and it had eight barracks filled with inmates. But then it was enlarged heavily and a new site containing 30 new barrack buildings was made and also a crerematoria and a gas chamber was added in 1943. This was to make sure that the execution of prisoners could take place as efficiently and as quickly as possible.

150 people at a time could be held inside of the gas chamber at the site. The camp staff was made up of many men but also a number of women who worked there. Women such as Emma Bhart, Hera both and Jenny Wonder Bachmann would become notorious for their treatment of inmates at Schloff. But as time went on, there were huge transports of women and men who were sent from camps such as Ashvitz.

The conditions there were very harsh and dozens of thousands of people succumbed to starvation and the disease epidemics that were sweeping through the site. Executions were also carried out at Sterth and many dozens of prisoners were shot at the site with thousands being slaughtered also inside off the gas chamber.

But Ster’s inmates would also suffer at the hands of the medical staff who would inject sick inmates with phenol, killing them, and the guards would also violently beat prisoners to death. The forced labor that the inmates were made to conduct was also horrific, and the prisoners were given insufficient rations for the roles they were doing.

Elizabeth Becka would inside of Stutoff become known for being a brutal guard and despite being in her earlyenties, many women who were guarded by her would not even want to look at her in the eyes. She was a woman who was an ardent Nazi and in particular involved in the selections of inmates. During this process, there would be doctors and guards who would look for the weakest inmates, and those who were then selected were quickly transported to the gas chambers where they were killed.

Elizabeth was involved in this every single day and her actions led to many women and children being sent to their deaths and she was deciding who would live and who would die every single day. Many female guards were brought to trials at the end of the Second World War. They would be condemned due to their actions in the selections. But Becca continued to work at Stutoff as a guard until she ran away and fled on the 15th of January 1945.

She was concerned that she may fall into the hands of the enemies, but some guards who accompanied prisoners on death marches would slaughter the former inmates. Becca had only been at Stutoff for around 4 months and she returned home in January 1945, but 3 months later she was then arrested by the Polish police and she was then placed in prison to await her trial.

She was a defendant in the first staff trial in Danish and this sought to punish the guards who worked at the site. Along with Elizabeth Becker, there were five other women, including Jenny Wonder Bachmann, who was brought in front of a judge. Many witnesses came forward with their testimony.

They named Elizabeth as someone who exhibited brutality in front of other inmates, and she was linked to the selections of prisoners who went to their deaths in the gas chambers. Elizabeth Becka was then sentenced to death, and she would at her trial confess that she selected at least 30 women to be sent to the gas chambers and be killed.

Following her death sentence, Elizabeth Becka then sent a number of letters of appeal to the Polish president for clemency and the court at the time on review considered reducing her death sentence to 15 years imprisonment as her actions were considered not as severe as other women such as Gerish Steinhoff and Jenny Barkman.

However, Elizabeth Becka had also been at the camp for the shortest amount of time. But the Polish president would not issue a pardon and along with the other condemned guards, Elizabeth Becka was brought in front of a huge crowd for her execution on the 4th of July 1946. Biscupia Gorka was the location of the executions of the guards of Stutto.

This was a huge hill and on this were a number of gallows, huge wooden execution structures where the guards would be hanged on. On the hill were also 200,000 people who were there to witness the proceedings. Elizabeth Becker was brought out with the other guards which was then told to climb on top of a truck in which many executioners and officials were stood on.

One of these then ran out the death sentence and the preparations were made as a truck was backed up under the gallows. A rope and a noose was placed around the gallows. Then an executioner helped Elizabeth onto a step. Then the noose was placed around her neck. All the final checks took place and after this the truck drove off and Elizabeth was left on the scaffold and on the gallows and within minutes she was executed and declared dead high above the huge crowd.

Elizabeth Becker at the day of her death was just 22 but she was a woman who had exhibited much cruelty and brutality onto people who were suffering. She was a woman who was responsible for the deaths of at least 30 women and she was spotted selecting many people to go to their deaths in the gas chambers. Despite the cause for clemency, she was considered a brutal guard who was brainwashed by the Nazis through her education and the youth groups she was forced to join.

However, she was a war criminal at the end of the day and her actions contributed to the executions of others. This is why the court in Poland believed she deserved to die. 200,000 people saw her execution that day on the hill in Dan Shadansk. Maria Mandel was born in January 1912 and she was the daughter of a shoemaker. The family owned a farm and there was little to suggest what she would later do in her life.

Her father actually spoke out against the Nazis, but Maria left school at the age of 12. She at one point moved to Switzerland and held different jobs, but she returned back home to Austria and worked as a maid in a villa. However, at the time she was slowly inside of the country, becoming exposed to the Nazi party who were beginning to impose upon Austrian politics.

Eventually, the nation would become aligned with the Nazis in the Anelus as Austria was annexed into the German Reich. However, Maria Mandel, who worked as a nanny at one point, was fired as she was not of the opinion of a Nazi. She sort of fell into working inside the concentration camps, and she moved in with her uncle, and she thought he could help her get a job in the police force.

Maria was then encouraged to take a job as a female overseer, an officer in inside the concentration camps, which were being opened. She would later admit that she knew nothing about what the concentration camps were when she signed up and she took the job initially because of the increase in pay and she knew she could earn more money in this role than she would working as a nurse.

She was trained and indoctrinated in the Nazi racial policies and was interrogated about her attitude towards Hitler and his empire. She was then sent to Likenborg, an all female camp to work and she passed her 3-month trial. She was influenced by the comedant Max Kirgal who influenced her behavior and she got involved in the horrific punishment at this camp.

Maria Mandel was seen whipping women and beating them who had been stripped naked and tied to a post. She also once beat a prisoner so badly with a key that they were knocked out and they were then dragged throughout the camp and thrown into a solitary confinement cell. With further expansion of the concentration camp systems, Maria Mandel was at the age of 27 transferred to the newly opened camp of Ravensbrook, an all female site close to Berlin.

One female prisoner of Ravensbrook summed up the conditions of the site, saying, “They didn’t shoot the women. We were to die of misery, hunger, and exhaustion. When we arrived at Ravensbrook, it was the worst. The first thing I saw was a cart with all the dead piled on it, their arms and legs hanging out and mouths and eyes wide open.

They reduced us to nothing. We didn’t even feel like we had the value of cattle. You worked and you died. Mandel became known inside of the camp for targeting women who had different hair. And she even shaved this off following beatings. She was witnessed kicking a woman to death during roll call. And whilst at Ravensbrook, she became a teacher, schooling other prospective female guards in how to instigate a reign of terror over others.

She had a relationship inside of the camp with a male guard, SS Abishum Fura Edmund Browning. However, when he broke this off, Maria Mandal took out her anger on the inmates and she shot a number of them to in a sense cure her broken heart. After a few years at Ravensbrook, she was then sent to Ashvitz 2 Burkanau, the main extermination element of the deadliest concentration camp.

Mandal worked under the comedant Rudolph Hurst, and she was the lagafurin of the female camp, practically the commodant of the female camp. She ruled with an iron fist, and she was given bonuses in pay for the way she ran the female prisoners. She promoted other female guards such as Graaser, the beautiful beast, and she often stood at the gates of Ashitz Burkanau, and she wanted a prisoner to look at her.

If one did, they were quickly removed and were never seen again, presumably dragged away and shot by Mandel and other guards. Whilst at Ashvitz Burkanau, she also got involved in the selections of prisoners to be sent to the gas chambers. And then she would patrol the train yards where thousands of men, women, and children disembarked.

Those who were not fit enough to work or those who Maria Mantel deemed as needing to be killed were immediately sent to their deaths, and her signature was found on the extermination lists of thousands of men, women, and children who were then driven into the gas chambers. One former prisoner said of her strange behavior that I had a friend who had a job cleaning in the guard’s host.

One of the senior guards had a piano in her room. One day, my friend went in and heard the most beautiful music. The woman who was playing was lost in a world of her own in ecstasy. It was the same guard who had murdered the Jewish woman a few days earlier. This woman being Maria Mandel. She was decorated by the Nazis for her behavior and actions.

But as the second world war was coming to an end and as the Soviet red army were approaching the region of Poland, Maria Mandel was moved across to the Muldorf subcamp of Dhau. This site was away from enemy lines and she was seen as an asset by Hinrich Himmler. In May 1945, Maria Mandal fled the sub camp and she moved to the mountains of Bavaria.

She probably thought that she would be safe living in the mountains and she did travel to different countries evading capture. But on the 8th of October 1945, Maria Mandal was arrested by the Americans. Her image and likeness had been circulated, and she was someone who was being hunted for her crimes, and she now found herself locked up inside the former camp of Daau along with many other guards.

During her interrogation, it was found that she was rather clever, but she was a devoted Nazi, and she told the interrogators what happened inside the camps. Mandal was in November 1946 deported to Poland where she was locked up inside of Montalupich prison inside the city of Kov and she was later brought to trial in December 1947 in the Ashvitz trial.

Mandel and many other female and male guards including former comedant Arthur Leah Henel were tried with the crimes of Ashvitz. One witness in the courtroom stated that Maria Mandel behaves differently. She does her best to be in control of herself, but her efforts are futile. The woman who condemned female prisoners to death with a single gesture now cannot control her accelerated breathing, unnatural blush, and nervous twitching of her entire face.

She was tried and found guilty of being involved and complicit in the murder and slaughter of 500,000 people. half a million men, women, and children who were all driven into the gas chambers of Ashvitz, all signed off by the female overseer. There was no denying her crimes and other former prisoners had testified against her.

And to those inside the courtroom, it was clear that she was a monster. Following the death sentence being passed against her, Maria Mandel was locked up again inside of Montalupich prison, awaiting her execution date. She would not be executed on the gallows or a structure with a long drop aimed to snap her neck. Inside of the prison, they used slow strangulation.

At 7 in the morning on the 24th of January, 1948, Maria Mandel was led into the execution chamber of the prison alongside a number of other condemned Ashvitz guards. In the chamber were some hooks in the ceiling and from these nooes dangled which had already been tied. Under the nooes were boxes for the condemned to stand on.

Maria Mandel was helped onto one of the boxes and an executioner then quickly secured the noose around her neck and he kicked the box from underneath her. It’s not known if she was given a cap placed over her head but within a few minutes she was dead. She kicked and struggled as a life was choked out of her until her body went limp and she was left for some time before she was then cut down.

Her final words were Poland lives. Her body was then donated to medical science and anatomist after her death. Maria Mandel was a harrowing and brutal female concentration camp guard, possibly the worst one inside of the SS or the Third Reich. She was a woman who was sentenced to death for being complicit in the deaths of half a million people.

And she was someone who tortured and brutalized female prisoners on a daily basis. She was more than comfortable and happy to take someone’s life inside of the camps where she worked, and she also drove prisoners into the gas chambers. She entered work inside the concentration camps to begin with just for money.

But it wasn’t long before Mandel got her hands dirty, learning of other sadis how to become a beast and a murderer. Inside of a Polish execution chamber, she met her maker at the end of the noose. Thanks for watching. To support our channel, please make sure to subscribe. And once again, thank you so much for watching.