Luise Danz
- Bestial Nazi Guard at Auschwitz & Malchow Concentration Camps - Holocaust - WW2

30 June 2022

Category: Female Nazi Guards

Luise Danz was born on the 11th of December 1917 After the Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939, Luise Danz began her criminal career as a concentration camp guard in 1943 when she started a three-week course at Ravensbrück concentration camp in order to become a guard. After she completed her training, she served in various concentration camps during the war such as Majdanek, Krakow-Płaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Malchow. At Auschwtiz, Danz supervised a work brigade of female inmates consisting of French and Greek Jewesses who worked at night shift in the tailor’s workshop.

After the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, she was transferred to the Malchow concentration camp, which was a subcamp of Ravensbrück. Luise Danz became the camp’s commandant. At Malchow, 900 female prisoners had to do different types of forced labor such as work in the local explosives factory, produce mines, or build canals. Danz used to torment the prisoners at Malchow, beating them with her whip and kicking them without any reason especially during the roll call.

Hiding and the arrest

When most of the death marches were taking place across Europe, Malchow served as a transit camp for additional prisoners arriving from other concentration camps. After the end of the war, Luise Danz was able to go into hiding for a short time. However, she was later captured and arrested on the 1st of June 1945. She was tried at the Auschwitz trial where she finally faced justice for inhuman crimes committed while on duty in various German Nazi concentration camps.

On the 22nd of December 1947 the Supreme National Tribunal in Krakow sentenced Luise Danz to life imprisonment. However, her life imprisonment only lasted 9 years as she was released in 1956. She lived undisturbed in seclusion for many decades until 1996 when she was tried again before a German court.

Because German doctors said the defendant Danz was too old to be able to withstand court proceedings, the charges against her were dropped one year later in 1997. She was 91 years old when she died in Walldorf on the 21st of June 2009.

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