FEMALE NAZIS EXECUTED ON 3 MAY 1947: ELISABETH MARSCHALL & GRETA BOSEL

            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]

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.