Ravensbruek

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Ravensbruek


 * a concentration camp mainly for women Dale Nelson III[[image:file:images.jpeg width="513" height="110"]]
 * not just for the women who did labor their but women were trained there
 * Only concentration camp established just for women
 * [|Women of Ravensbrueck]
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 * **__OPERATION OF RAVENSBRUECK__**
 * located 50 miles from Berlin
 * Area became part of German Democratic Republic after World War II
 * Built alongside Lake Schwedt
 * Lake is filled with womens ashes from the cremotorium
 * Camp was mainly off limits to visitors until the fall of the Berlin Wall
 * New barracks were built for the soviet troops stationed there after World War II
 * Polish, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, French, Gypsie and many other ethnic backrounds passed through Ravensbrueck.
 * 132,000 women from all over Europe passed through Ravensbrueck
 * Opened in May 1939
 * 92,000 out of 132,000 women perished at Ravensbrueck
 * Was staffed by men and women
 * Was a training camp for female supervisors and female SS guards
 * __**RAVENSBRUECK TRIALS**__
 * Hamburg Ravensbrueck Trials were seven trials on the war crimes in the concentration camp
 * These trials were heard in front of a military tribunal
 * Three out of the five judges were British officers accompanied by lawyers
 * Defendents included camp personel of all levels
 * In total 38 defendents stood, 21 were woman
 * All seven trials took place in the "curio" house in Hamburg
 * First Ravensbrueck Trial was held on December 5, 1946 until February 3, 1947
 * __**DEFENDENT FUNCTION SENTENCE**__
 * Johann Schwarzhuber Deputy Camp Leader Death
 * Gustav Binder Warden Death
 * Heirich Warden Warden 15 years prison
 * Ludwig Ramdohr Gestapo Inspecter Death
 * Martin Hellinger Medical Doctor 15 years prison
 * Rolf Rosenthal Medical Doctor Death
 * Gerhard Shiedlausky Medical Doctor Death
 * Percy Treite Medical Doctor Death; Commited Suicide
 * Adolf Winklemann Medical Doctor Died During Trials
 * Borothea Binz Chief Warden Death
 * Greta Bosel Warden Death
 * Margarate Mewes Warden 10 years prison
 * Elisabeth Marschell Nurse Death
 * Carmen Mory Inmate Death; Commited Suicide
 * Vera Salvequart Inmate Death
 * Eugenia von Skene Inmate 10 years prison
 * In the second Ravensbrueck Trial which lasted from November 5 - 27, 1947, only one defendent, Friedrich Opitz, fleed before the first trial and had his trial at the second ravensbrueck trial. He got the death sentence.
 * The third Ravensbrueck Trial or the "Uckermark Trial" took place from April 14 - 26, 1948
 * Five female camp officials of the extermanation camp Uckermark were indicted on four charges:
 * 1. Mistreatment of allied women in Uckermark
 * 2. Participation in the selection of allied women to the gas chamber in Uckermark
 * 3. Mistreatment of allied women in Ravensbrueck
 * 4. Participation in the selection of allied women to the gas chamber in Ravensbrueck
 * The camp Uckermark was about one mile from Ravensbrueck
 * Opened in May 1942 as a prison or Concentration camp for girls aged 16 to 21 that were considered a criminal or just difficult
 * Girls that reached the upper age limit were transfered to the Ravensbrueck
 * Fourth trial from May to June 8, 1948
 * All were from the medical staff
 * One inmate worked as a nurse and was involved in the trial
 * Fifth trial lasted from June 16-29, 1948
 * Three SS members were accused of having killed allied inmates at Ravensbrueck
 * Sixth trial lasted from July 1-26, 1948
 * Seventh trial lasted from July 2-21, 1948
 * **__QUOTES FROM SURVIVORS OF RAVENSBRUECK__**
 * Judith Sherman, 76, Cranbury, NJ- "I think of Ravensbrueck every time I feel hungary. I think of Ravensbrueck every time I feel cold." "Every time my grandchildren cry I think of Ravensbrueck"
 * Pierette Pierrot- "There was a lot of friendship ... and only through that could I keep my child".
 * She was pregnate and was able to hide her pregnancy with her baggy clothes and the help of others
 * When she gave birth to her son Guy, she really needed to lean on people to help keep it secret, including a German nurse.
 * "I only really felt saved when we made it to Denmark"
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