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  Carl Clauberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the war in 1948 Clauberg was put on trial in the Soviet Union and received 23 years.
Seven years later he was released due to arrangement of exchange of prisoners of war between Soviet Union and West Germany and returned to West Germany, where he boasted of his "scientific achievements".
After groups of survivors protested, Clauberg was was soon arrested in 1955 and was put into trial.
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 Noteworthy War Criminals Second World War-Europe. Commandants of Concentration Camps and Concentration Camp Trials. ...
Exemplary trials for groups of as many as sixty persons accused of the worst crimes were held in regard to most of the main concentration camps in Germany.
In this trial, before a United States military tribunal at Dachau, April, August, 1947, 31 members of the staff of the Buchenwald camp were found guilty of atrocities and 22 were sentenced to death; the rest to imprisonment.
The trial of the commandant (KAINDL) and a number of officials and guards of this camp was prepared in the British zone, but was handed over, by agreement, together with the defendants, to the U.S.S.R. war crimes authorities in June, 1946.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /WCC/warcrimcon.htm   (2120 words)

  
 Hermine Braunsteiner. Who is Hermine Braunsteiner? What is Hermine Braunsteiner? Where is Hermine Braunsteiner? ...
She was again arrested on 7 of April 1948 for assassination, infanticide and manslaughter at Ravensbruck but once again released on 22 November 1949.
In 1971 the Department began to strip Hermine Ryan of her citizenship because she was an alien of "questionable quality." During the next year Hermine as well as her husband sat in a US court in Queens hearing survivors testimonies against the former SS guard.
Finally on 14 March 1973, Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was extradited to West Germany to stand trial with 15 other former SS men and women from Majdanek.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Hermine_Braunsteiner   (572 words)

  
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Yad Vashem Archives, TR-10/584, the trial of Theodor Ganzenmuller, the Director-General of the German railways.
YVA, TR-10/1069, the Sobibor-Bolender trial, Dusseldorf Sosnowski, Kiryl.
YVA, TR-10/1102, the trial of Streibel Strom, Axel, et al.
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 Aufseherin - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ravensbruck, the only strictly women's camp in the camp network, was run by many SS men, but only assisted by a few female overseers.
Head overseers at Ravensbruck were Johanna Langefeld, Maria Mandel, Jane Bernigau, Erna Rose, Emma Anna Maria Zimmer and Dorothea Binz.
She was tried at the first Auschwitz Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1947.
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 Klaus Barbie: women testify of torture at his hands
Barbie, 73, is on trial in Lyon, accused of torturing Jews and members of the French Resistance and deporting them to Nazi death camps.
Ennat Leger, who lost her sight at Ravensbruck after her arrest, was hoisted to the witness stand in her wheelchair by four policemen.
She was condemned to death by a German military tribunal for "terrorism" but was placed in the wrong cell and deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where she survived the war.
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 Juana Bormann biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Juana Bormann was a prison guard at several Nazi death and concentration camps, and was executed as a war criminal at Hameln after a trial in 1945.
At her trial in late 1945 Juana Bormann said she had joined the SS auxiliary in 1938 "...to earn more money." She first served at the Lichtenburg concentration camp in Saxony under SS Oberaufseherin Jane Bernigau with forty-nine other SS women.
In 1939 she was assigned to oversee a work crew at the new Ravensbruck women's camp near Berlin.
juana-bormann.biography.ms   (349 words)

  
 Holocaust Resources
Ravensbruck concentration camp is liberated by Soviet army units.
Of this total 55 percent were freed and 45 percent were passed to the courts for trial.
After their transfer from Ravensbruck to Kaiserdamm prison in Berlin in April, they had been liberated by Soviet troops.
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 ZNet Commentary: Bloody Brigitte
The second woman on trial for her sadistic behaviour in Majdanek was Hermine Braunsteiner-Ryan.
In 1981 she was sentenced in the Dusseldorf Majdanek Trial to two life terms in prison, but was released in 1990, due to "bad health".
Braunsteiner's line of defense in the Majdanek Trial was that she had been but "a small wheel in the machinery", a young girl without experience and that "...the whole impression and the whole atmosphere in the camp were very hard on me, I mean, as a woman".
www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2004-08/08noll.cfm   (1665 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 6
VAILLANT-COUTURIER: No. People were not tattooed at Ravensbruck but, on the other hand, we had to go, up for a gynecological examination, and since no precautions were ever taken and the same instruments were frequently used in all cases, infections spread, partly because common-law prisoners and political internees were all herded together.
When the convoys arrived at Ravensbruck, they were rapidly dispatched either to the munition or to the powder factories, either to work at the air fields or, latterly, to dig trenches.
So one day Dr. Winkelmann, selection specialist at Ravensbruck, entered her name in the fl-list and on 9 February 1945, together with 72 other consumptive women, 6 of whom were French, she was shoved on the truck for the gas chamber.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/01-28-46.htm   (21061 words)

  
 Aufseherin
After 1939, women were trained at Ravensbruck camp near Berlin.
Only twenty-four SS women served at Buchenwald, eighteen at Dachau, eighteen in Mauthausen, three in Dora Mittelbau, six at Natzweiler, thirty at Majdanek, 200 at Auschwitz and its subcamps, one hundred at Sachsenhausen, 200 at Neuengamme, thirty at Stutthof, compared to 4,000 who served in the Ravensbruck complex, and 1,000 at Gross Rosen.
Head overseers at Ravensbruck were Johanna Langefeld, Maria Mandel, Jane Bernigau, Erna Rose, and their assistant, Dorothea Binz.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/au/aufseherin.html   (477 words)

  
 Discussions - View Single Post - The Nature of Rescue and Resistance (due Thu., Mar. 11)
She continued to practice medicine in a nearby camp until she was moved to Ravensbruck camp in 1944.
Uris trial in 1964 (Dering was a doctor working under Wirths.) Dr. Hautval refuted Dering's statement that refusing to obey Nazi orders was useless; in fact, she said, orders to remove a woman's ovaries could be bypassed very easily.
When she became directly affected by Nazi abuse (her arrest and trial) she told them directly that they were wrong.
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 News from the Camps
After the Essen trial Vandenhove was badly treated, cruelly tortured so that he had to be carried by his fellow prisoners and only survived until the 4th August 1943.
was taken to Ravensbruck after the Essen court case in 1943, she died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 at the age of 38.
She was eventually captured, managed to survive Ravensbruck and Mauthausen concentration camps and after the war was awarded the George Medal.
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 BMJ No 7070 Human guinea pigs
The first trial of major German war criminals at Nuremberg was an international military tribunal of the four allies, Britain, France, Russia, and the United States.
By contrast, the medical trial was constituted solely as a United States military tribunal, organised and paid for by the United States.
Whereas debate on the trial passed into obscurity, the position advocated by Mellanby became an entrenched orthodoxy: medical researchers were keen to take public or charitable funds on condition that there should be as little crutiny as possible of their privileged clinical position or research practices.
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 Trials of German Major War Criminals: Volume 5
In the blocks an order had been circulated to the effect that the old women and the patients who could no longer work should apply in writing for admission to the Jugendlager, where they would be far better off, where they would not have to work and where there would be no roll-call.
At the "Revier" white powder was periodically distributed, and the sick died as in Block 10, which I mentioned a short time ago.
It was merely an extermination camp, whereas at Ravensbruck they were interned in order to work, and were weakened by work until they died of it.
www.nizkor.org /hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-05/tgmwc-05-44-04.shtml   (2118 words)

  
 Ravensbrück concentration camp - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ravensbruck also supplied every major camp, except Auschwitz with women to work in the camp brothels.
One of those trials Doctors' Trial was held by a Military Tribunal from October 1946 till February 1948 in Nuremberg, Germany.
Among the most notorious of those placed on trial was a guard supervisor at Ravensbrück, Hermine Braunsteiner, who had been tracked down by the famous Nazi-hunter, Simon Wiesenthal.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Ravensbruck   (1515 words)

  
 THHP Question: Adelaide Hautval and the Holocaust
She lived to testify at several trials after the war involving the German doctors at the camp.
Awaiting trial in the Bourges prison, she vehemently protested to the Gestapo against the harsh treatment of Jewish prisoners incarcerated with her.
At the trial, Hautval refuted Dering's claim that it was futile to refuse to obey orders in Auschwitz, maintaining that one could bypass SS commands to remove women's ovaries and still manage to avoid punishment.
www.holocaust-history.org /questions/hautval.shtml   (877 words)

  
 Jewish Telegraphic Agency : RAVENSBRUCK HIT BY ARSONISTS, CEMETERY DESECRATED IN GERMANY @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
BONN, Oct. 25 (JTA)--The site of the Ravensbruck concentration camp was slightly damaged by arson and a Jewish cemetery was desecrated in the latest incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism reported in Germany.
Ravensbruck is located in the state of Brandenberg, in eastern Germany, near Berlin, an area where assailants last month burnt down a barracks at the Sachsenhausen death camp that contained a Jewish museum.
A controversy over the Ravensbruck site was settled several months ago in an agreement the certain the concentration camp memorial during commercial development of the area by local authorities.
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 Dorothea Binz - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Binz's behavior in the Ravensbruck camp was unimaginable.
Dorothea fled Ravensbruck duringt eh death march and was captured on May 3, 1945 by British officers.
Finally she was tried by a British court with other SS men and women at the Ravensbruck Trial.
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 Aufseherin - Definition, explanation
In the Danzig Langfuhr subcamp Gerda Steinhoff commanded all the female overseers and prisoners, in Dora Mittelbau, this was handled by Erna Petermann.
At the Ravensbruck subcamp at Dresden Universelle, Charlotte Hanakam was chief wardress, and in Flossenburg, this rank was given to three women at three different times; Gertrud Becker, Dora Lange, and Gertrud Weniger.
Ravensbruck was the training ground for female guards.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/au/aufseherin.php   (1187 words)

  
 RAVENSBRUCK MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE WOMEN'S CONCENTRATION CAMP
The main source of the biographical information about the Nazi doctors was "The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47 Transcripts, Material of the Prosecution and Defence, Related documents" edited by group of German historians in form of microfiche.
Jadwiga Dzido was a former political prisoner in the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp and a victim of the medical experiments conducted in the camp.
From this, should not be inferred that the other national or political groups of prisoners and the role they played in the camp's community might be less important.
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 The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part V. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations ...
She was sent from Ravensbruck to Lublin as a punishment because she was too kind to the internees.
Jutta and Inga Madlung, two sisters, came forward on their own initiative to give evidence on behalf of Ehlert, and dealt with the time when she was in the concentration camp at Ravensbruck.
In March, 1945, after a period at Ravensbruck, she went to Belsen with Lothe.
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 HOLOCAUST FAQ: Auschwitz-Birkenau: Layman's Guide (2/2) - faqs.org.ru
When his pet canary died, he tenderly put the body in a small box, covered it with a rose, and buried it under a rose bush in the garden.'(Hoess, 25)(Sachar) During his trial, the evidence "...repeated...what he had written..." in his autobiography.
The trial led to some 20 death sentences, but Muench was acquitted.
LESS: I have some photostats of documents that were submitted in the first Nuremberg war crimes trial, the trial of the physicians.
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 Nuremberg Trials Project -- Medical Trial Transcript
Bone transplantation from one person to another and the regeneration of nerves, muscles, and bones were also tried out on the women at Ravensbruck.
The defendant Gebhardt personally ordered that bone transplantation experiments be carried out, and in one case the scapula of an inmate at Ravensbruck was removed and taken to Hohenlychen Hospital and there transplanted.
The defendant Oberh[e]user's duties at Ravensbruck in connection with the experiments were to select young and healthy inmates for the experiments, to be present at all of the surgical operations, and to give the experimental subjects post-operative care.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu /NurTranscript/TranscriptPages/72_33.html   (321 words)

  
 Ruth Closius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In July 1944 she arrived at the Ravensbruck camp to begin her training to be a camp guard.
In the Ravensbruck camp, Ruth was known as one of the worst female guards.
One former prisoners commented after the war that she had seen wardress Neudeck "cut the throat of an inmate with the sharp edge of her shovel." In December 1944, Ruth was promoted to the rank of Oberaufseherin and moved to the Uckermark extermination complex down the road from Ravensbruck.
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 Juana Bormann - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Juana Bormann joined the SS auxiliiary in 1938, as she stated at her 1945 trial, "...to earn more money." She was sent by the Nazis to serve at the Lichtenburg early concentration camp in Saxony under SS Oberaufseherin Jane Bernigau and forty-nine other SS women.
In 1939, the Germans established Ravensbruck womens camp near Berlin, and she was assigned there over a work crew.
Eventually she stood accused at the Bergen belsen Trial from September 17, 1945 until November 17, 1945.
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 Articles - Alice Orlowski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In October 1942 she was selected as one of the SS Aufseherin to be posted at the Majdanek camp near Lublin, Poland where she and Hermine Braunsteiner came to be regarded as two of the most brutal overseers.
It is unknown why her attitude changed, but some speculate that she sensed the war was almost over and she would soon be a war criminal.
She died during the trial in 1976 at the age of 73.
www.sonicplayer.net /articles/Alice_Orlowski   (535 words)

  
 NOVA Online | Holocaust on Trial | The Experiments
At the Nuremberg "doctor's trial," which brought 23 German doctors to trial immediately after the war, prosecutors found 15 defendants guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity; seven were hung.
For the benefit of the German Army, whose frontline soldiers suffered greatly from gas gangrene, a type of progressive gangrene, doctors at the Ravensbruck concentration camp performed studies to test the effectiveness of sulfanilamide and other drugs in curbing such infections.
To learn if a limb or joint from one person could be successfully attached to another who had lost that limb or joint, experimenters at Ravensbruck amputated legs and shoulders from inmates in useless attempts to transplant them onto other victims.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/holocaust/experiside.html   (1156 words)

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