On
this date, 3 May 1947, two female Nazi War Criminals were executed by hanging
by British Hangman, Albert Pierrepoint. I will post the information about them
from Wikipedia.
INTERNET SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Marschall
Elizabeth Marschall,
the oldest female Nazi to be executed at age 60. [PHOTO SOURCE: http://jtajchert.w.interia.pl/personel%20obozu%20ravensbruck.htm]
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Elisabeth Marschall (27 May 1886 – 3 May 1947) was the Head Nurse (Oberschwester)
at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her duties included selecting prisoners
for execution, overseeing medical experiments, and selecting which prisoners
would be shipped to Auschwitz. At the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials, she was found
guilty and sentenced to death. On 3 May 1947 she was hanged by British executioner
Albert Pierrepoint on the gallows in Hameln prison. Aged
60, she was the oldest female Nazi to be executed.
INTERNET SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_B%C3%B6sel
Greta Bösel
(née Mueller) (9 May 1908 – 3 May 1947) was a trained nurse. Born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld,
Germany, she became a camp guard at Ravensbrück some time between 1939 and
1943.
Her
rank at the camp was Arbeitseinsatzführerin (Work Input Overseer). In
November 1944, Bösel was supposed to have been one of the staff members to
select prisoners for the gas chamber, or for transfer to Uckermark. She is
known to have told another SS guard "If they [prisoners] cannot work, let
them rot."
After
the death march of prisoners out of Ravensbrück following the impending
liberation by the Red Army of Soviet
troops, Bösel fled the camp with her husband. She was later caught and arrested
by British troops.
Bösel,
along with other female guards including Dorothea Binz, stood accused at the Hamburg
Ravensbrück Trials, which took place between December 1946 and February 1947 in
Hamburg, Germany. The court found her guilty of maltreatment, murder and taking
part in the "selections". She was executed for her crimes, hanged
along with Elisabeth Marschall at 9:55 am on 3 May 1947 by Albert Pierrepoint
in Hameln prison.
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