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The most famous matron of Nazi concentration camps.

1) Irma Dreaming - (October 7, 1923 - December 13, 1945) - matron Nazi death camps Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
Among Irma nicknames were "the devil Blonde," "Angel of Death", "Beautiful Monster". To torture the prisoners she used emotional and physical methods, beaten to death, and women enjoyed an arbitrary shooting of prisoners. She starved her dogs, then to incite them to the victims, and personally took away hundreds of people to the gas chambers. Dreaming wore heavy boots, with her always, in addition to the gun, was braided whip.




In the post-war Western media constantly discussed possible sexual deviation Irma dreams, her numerous contacts with the SS of protection, with the commandant of Bergen-Belsen, Josef Kramer ("Belzenskim beast»).

April 17, 1945, she was captured by the British. Belzensky process initiated by a British military court, lasted from September 17 to November 17, 1945. Together with the Irma Dreaming on the process considered the case of other employees of the camp - the commandant Josef Kramer, matron Yuanny Bormann, nurse Elizabeth Folkenrat. Dreaming Irma was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged.
On the last night before his execution Dreaming laughed and sang songs together with his colleague Elizabeth Folkenrat. Even when the neck Irma Dreaming threw the noose, her face remained calm. Her last word was "Faster" is addressed to the British executioner.





2) Ilse Koch - (September 22 1906 - September 1, 1967) - the German Nazi Party activist, the wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald and Majdanek. The best known under the pseudonym as "Frau Shade" was nicknamed "witch Buchenwald" for the brutal torture of prisoners of the camp. Koch was also accused in the manufacture of souvenirs made of human skin (but in the postwar trial of Ilse Koch credible evidence that was not presented).





June 30, 1945 Koch was arrested by US troops in 1947 and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, a few years later, US General Lucius Clay, the military commander of the American occupation zone in Germany, released her, considering the charges in saluting the execution of orders and production of souvenirs made of human skin proved insufficient.

This decision was protested by the public, so in 1951, Ilse Koch was arrested in West Germany. German court again sentenced her to life in prison.

September 1, 1967 Koch had committed suicide by hanging himself in a Bavarian prison cell Eibach.

3) Luise Danz - b. December 11, 1917 - Women's matron of concentration camps. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but later released.



She began working in the concentration camp of Ravensbruck and then she was transferred to Majdanek. Later Danz served at Auschwitz and Malchow.

The prisoners later told that they had been ill-treated by Danz. She beat them, confiscated issued for winter clothing. In Malchow where Danz had the post of senior matron, she morila prisoners hunger without giving food for 3 days. April 2, 1945, it killed an underage girl.

Danz was arrested on 1 June 1945 in Lyuttsove. At lasted from 24 November 1947 to 22 December 1947 the court of the Supreme National Tribunal, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. Released in 1956 for health reasons (!!!). In 1996, it was charged against the aforementioned murder of the child, but it was withdrawn after doctors said Danz will be too hard to bear repeated imprisonment. She lives in Germany. She is now in '94.

4) Jenny-Wanda Barkmann - (May 30, 1922 - July 4, 1946) In the period from 1940 to December 1943 worked as a photo model. In January 1944, she became matron in a small concentration camp Stutthof, where she became famous for brutal beating of women prisoners, some of them it is beaten to death. She also participated in the selection of women and children in the gas chambers. It was so brutal but very beautiful, women prisoners nicknamed her "perfect Ghost».





Jenny fled from the camp in 1945, when Soviet troops began to approach the camp. But he was caught and arrested in May 1945 while trying to leave the station in Gdansk. It is said to be flirting with the policemen guarding her and not very worried about their fate. Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was found guilty, after which she was given the final say. She said, "Life is really a lot of fun and pleasure, usually long».

Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was publicly hanged on the Horka Biskupská near Gdansk, July 4, 1946. She was only 24 years old. Her body was burned, and the ashes were washed away in the public restroom of the house where she was born.

5) Gertrud Herta Bothe - (January 8, 1921 - March 16, 2000) - the female matron concentration camps. He was arrested on charges of war crimes, but later released.





In 1942 he received an invitation to work matron in Ravensbrück concentration camp. After a four-week pre-service training Bothe was sent to Stutthof, a concentration camp, located within walking distance from the city of Gdansk. In it Bothe was nicknamed "Shtuttgofskaya sadist" because of the ill-treatment of women prisoners.

In July 1944, he was sent to a concentration camp Gerda Steinhoff Bromberg-Ost. On January 21, 1945 Bothe was matron during a death march prisoners held by central Poland to the Bergen-Belsen camp. The march ended 20-26 February 1945. In Bergen-Belsen Bothe led a detachment of women, which consisted of 60 people and is engaged in manufacture of wood.

After the liberation of the camp were arrested. On Belzenskom court he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Released before the deadline December 22, 1951. Died March 16, 2000 in Huntsville, US.

6) Maria Mandel (1912-1948) - Nazi war criminal. Covering the period 1942-1944 the post of headmistress women's camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, directly responsible for the death of 500 thousand women prisoners.





Colleagues at work Mandel described as "extremely intelligent and dedicated" person. The prisoners of Auschwitz together called her a monster. Mandel personally make the selection of prisoners, and thousands sent them to the gas chambers. There are cases when the person at the time Mandel took under his patronage of a few prisoners, and when they get bored with it, bring it to the destruction of the lists. Also, it was Mandel's idea and the creation of the women's camp orchestra, is found at the gate of the newly arrived prisoners cheerful music. According to the memoirs of survivors, Mandel was a music fan and a nice treat for the musicians of the orchestra, personally I came to him with a request to the barracks to play something.

In 1944, Mandel was transferred to the post of headmistress Muldorf concentration camp, one part of the Dachau concentration camp, where he served until the end of the war with Germany. In May 1945, she fled to the mountains near her home town - Myuntskirhena. August 10, 1945 Mandel was arrested by US troops. In November 1946, she was transferred to the military criminal Polish authorities at their request. Mandel was one of the main figurantok trial of Auschwitz staff, held in November-December 1947. The court sentenced her to death by hanging. The sentence was executed January 24, 1948 in Krakow prison.

7) Hildegard Neumann (May 4, 1919 Czechoslovakia -?) - The senior matron in Ravensbrück and Theresienstadt concentration camps.

Hildegard Neumann began his service in the Ravensbrück concentration camp in October 1944, immediately becoming the chief matron. Due to the good work, she was transferred to the concentration camp Theresienstadt as the head of the camp wardens. Beauty Hildegard, reviews detainees was cruel and merciless towards them.