Female guards in Nazi concentration camps

Evil and Sadistic SS Women When people think of sadistic killers during the Holocaust they think of men; What about their female counterparts? Many of these women were stationed in concentration camps. Some of the female members of the SS were more sadistic than male members. Herta Bothe is one of the three sadistic women spoken of in the Bergen Belsen trials. Bothe was born on January 3rd 1921 (Source Bergen Belsen Trial Transcript) in Tete, Mecklenburg. Bothe had done house work until 1940 (Source Bergen Belsen Trial Transcript).Herta Bothe was stationed in Bergen Belsen in 1945. From her own account she had arrived late February 20th-26th 1942 but it was not till mid-march was she put in charge of the wood Kamando. From eye witness…

having the three different concentration camps and what effect did it have on the victims and the bystanders of the Holocaust? The significance of having three types of concentration camps was that Hitler, the SS and the Nazis were able to concentrate their sub-human victims. Having three types of concentration camps was an essential part of the Nazis ultimate goal of the Final Solution, as it dictated the fate of not only the victims but also the bystanders of the Holocaust. The three types…

Auschwitz is a system of concentration/death camps that were opened in 1940, and maintained by the Nazi soldiers (History). It is located in southern Poland. The camp was originally used to hold political prisoners, but later on it was converted into an extermination camp for the Jewish people, and other enemies of the Nazi’s. Also, when the camp was operational, torturous medical experiments were being done to the prisoners of the camp. This camp is the most known concentration camp, and it is…

Ellie Weisel’s novel The Night and Shirley Wachtel’s In My Mother’s Shoes are as much similar as they are different. Both novels narrate the details of those who were forced to live in the concentration camps for years. In My Mother’s Shoes is told from Holocaust survivor, Blima, and her daughter, Shirley, and switches from each of them throughout the novel. Although In My Mother’s Shoes is told from two view points it can be viewed as three because Betty is Blima’s American name and only…

in social organizations, including political leadership. In Eva’s Story: A Survivor’s Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank, fifteen year old Eva explains how she feared for her life at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Every time the narrator tries to walk around the camp, there is always a young soldier watching her, and eventually, he started stalking her in the showers, compounds, and everywhere she went. As a result, she felt as if he…

Daily Life in concentration camps was terrifying and draining emotionally and physically to the prisoners. The prisoners were always fearful of unnecessary beating and lashes from whips. The Nazi’s changed every person so that they could no longer feel or have emotions. The Nazi’s forced the prisoners to do unnecessary work in terrible conditions. Daily life in the Concentration Camps can be described as absolutely terrifying. The able-bodied prisoners worked in the slave labor complex. To…

know that many terrible things happened to the Jewish people during the Holocaust, however, very few know how poorly they were treated and how each individual was the bane of some of the Germans existence, including Adolf Hitler. Especially in one of the largest concentration camps of it’s kind, Auschwitz-Birkenau also known as “The Death Camp”. This paper explores what…

II in the concentration camps. Although the author himself being a survivor of the atrocities and nightmarish times of WWII in Nazi Germany one reading this story might find it too direct and descriptive. This style of writing to many readers might be too much for them to handle but I believe when it comes to important life events such as this one the person will want to be as vivid and clear as possible to properly show what that person himself in this case the author has gone through. I agree…

Physically Free, Emotionally Bound Connor Alforque explores David Fengel’s inspiring story from extreme depravity and captivity to his freedom journey home. Will David’s long and agonising ordeal inside a concentration camp deprive him of finally experiencing true freedom, or can he radically rebuild his mind after the experiences he endured during his excruciating past? Held captive and abandoned, David’s mind was in darkness, his eyes were blind to the outside world and David was…

A Holocaust survivor named Eugene Black was sent to a Jewish camp in 1944 in Hungary. He worked where all the Nazi’s made their V1 and V2 rockets underground. He worked 12-14 hours without sleep or food. So he ended up getting pneumonia, luckily he got saved by a German doctor. He got out on April 15th afterwards he felt survivor’s guilt because he lost his whole family besides his older brother who was working for the Czech Army, this is an example of survivor’s guilt. Survivor's guilt exactly…