Execution of Elisabeth Volkenrath
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30 April 2022

Category: Female Nazi Guards

Elisabeth Volkenrath was born on 5th September 1919 and her infamous career in concentration camps began in 1941 when she became a guard at Ravensbrück Concentration camp. In March 1942 she was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. At Auschwitz, Elisabeth Volkenrath was known for her exceptional brutality due to which she became the most hated woman in the camp.

In January 1945, as the end of the war was approaching, Volkenrath moved from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she came on February 5, 1945. Up until her very last moment in camp, she took pleasure in abusing the prisoners. One day after the British forces arrived to liberate the camp, she was witnessed beating the prisoner with her fist so violently that innocent person collapsed and did not move again.

Captured by the British forces

After Bergen Belsen’s liberation, Elisabeth Volkenrath was captured by the British forces together with her fellow Nazi criminal colleagues such as Johanna Bormann who used to set dogs on the prisoners and Josef Kramer, the last commandant of Bergen Belsen. She was tried at the Belsen trial which began on 17 September 1945. At her trial she refused to confess to any of the charges brought against her claiming only to have slapped a few prisoners with her hand, never with a rubber truncheon. However, her lies did not help her to escape justice.

The British Military tribunal found Elisabeth Volkenrath guilty and sentenced her to death by hanging. She was 26 years old when the British executioner Albert Pierrepoint carried out the sentence on 13 December,1945.

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