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Wehrmachthelferin. Wehrmachthelferinnen in occupied Paris, 1940. Wehrmachthelferin was the name for girls and young women who served during the Second World War with the German Wehrmacht as auxiliaries. [ 1][ 2]
Aufseherin ( [ˈaʊ̯fˌzeːəʁɪn], pl. Aufseherinnen) was the position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Of the 50,000 guards who served in the concentration camps, training records indicate that approximately 3,500 were women. [ 1] In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück.
Others followed suit, in the army and in the other services. Until December 1941, recruitment was by volunteer enlistment, but by that date unmarried women in the age group 18–40 years could be drafted into auxiliary service. [1] All female auxiliary services were uniformed and under military discipline, with free rations, quarters and clothing.
Nazi Party. The League of German Girls or the Band of German Maidens[ 1] ( German: Bund Deutscher Mädel, abbreviated as BDM) was the girls' wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, the Hitler Youth. It was the only legal female youth organization in Nazi Germany . At first, the League consisted of two sections: the Jungmädelbund ("Young Girls ...
The German Federal Court upheld a 99-year-old woman's conviction for accessory to murder over her role as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in the last two years of World War Two. In 2022 ...
On October 7, 1944, members of the Sonderkommando, 250 prisoners responsible for the bodies of persons after gassing, rose up; they had procured explosives stolen by a Kommando of young Jewish women ( Ala Gertner, Regina Safir, Estera Wajsblum and Roza Robota) who worked in the armament factories of the Union Werke.
Elisabeth Volkenrath. Elisabeth Volkenrath (née Mühlau; 5 September 1919 – 13 December 1945) was a German supervisor at several Nazi concentration camps during World War II . Volkenrath, née Mühlau, was an ungelernte Hilfskraft (unskilled worker) when she volunteered for service in a concentration camp. In October 1941 she began working ...
M. Karin Magnussen. Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe. Melita Maschmann. Trude Mohr. Pauline von Montgelas.