Execution of Ruth Neudeck
- Bestial Nazi Guard in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp - The Holocaust

10 April 2022

Category: Female Nazi Guards

Ruth Neudeck was born on July 5, 1920 and in June 1944, she arrived at Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she began training to become a guard. Thanks to the cruelty with which she treated the camp’s women and children, Neudeck quickly gained recognition from the camp’s management and one month later she was promoted to the rank of a block leader.

In the subcamp of Ravensbrück

In December 1944 she was moved to Uckermark extermination complex which was the subcamp of Ravensbrück. When she took over the camp, there were 4000 prisoners. In Uckermark, Neudeck participated in selections and personally supervised and led the process of extermination of women and children in the gas chambers. After 6 weeks, 1000 prisoners were still alive while the remaining 3000 children and women were liquidated in the gas chambers. In March 1945, Neudeck became head of the Barth subcamp but in April 1945 she fled from the advancing Soviet troops.

She was soon captured by the allies and she was tried at the third Ravensbrück trial which took place from April 14 to April 26, 1948. She was accused of mistreatment of women and the participation in the selection of female prisoners for gas chambers. Neudeck admitted to the accusations. The British Military Tribunal found Ruth Neudeck guilty and sentenced her to death by hanging. She was 28 years old when the British executioner Albert Pierrepoint carried out the sentence on 29 July 1948.

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