Dorothea binz biography

Dorothea "Theodora" Binz (16 March 1920 – 2 May 1947) was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Dorothea "Theodora" Binz was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Dorothea Binz (født 16.

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Irma Grese and Female Concentration Camp Guards

'[They] hit the prisoners, who were almost as thin as skeletons with a thick stick … withholding of food and beatings, [they] also made the prisoners stand for hours'

Scenes like this were inflicted by thousands of SS guards who reigned terror upon millions of prisoners interned in the hundreds of concentration camps throughout the Nazi regime. Names such as Josef Kramer, Rudolf Hoess and Theodor Eicke have become synonymous with such atrocities. Yet, to the female prisoners held in camps such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück, the names Irma Grese, Maria Mandl and Dorothea Binz – amongst many others – instilled as much, if not more, panic and fear than those of the SS men. In fact, the scene described above was committed by the Aufseherin (female overseer) Lehmann at Ravensbrück concentration camp, and was far from unusual in the female sections of camps.

Of the 37,000 SS guards who actively participated in the daily suffering, torture and death of the internees, approximately 10 per cent were female overs

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Dorothea Binz

Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp (1920–1947)

Dorothea "Theodora" Binz (16 March 1920 – 2 May 1947)^[1] was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust. She was known as one of the most brutal, ruthless and sadistic overseers and in the Nazi system.^[2] She was executed for war crimes on 2 May 1947.^[3]

Early life

Born to a lower middle-class German family in Försterei Dusterlake, Brandenburg, Germany, Binz attended school until she was 15.

Atrocities at Ravensbrück concentration camp

She volunteered for kitchen work at Ravensbrück in August 1939, when she was aged 19,^[4] and was given a position of Aufseherin (female overseer) the following month.^[5]

Binz served as an Aufseherin under OberaufseherinEmma Zimmer, Johanna Langefeld, Maria Mandl, and Anna Klein. Though she worked under higher-ranking guards, Binz was known as "the true star of the camp", and the "chief guard was completely overshadowed by her

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Dorothea Binz

Dorothea Binz (født 16. mars1920 i Templin, Tyskland, død 2. mai1947 i Hameln) var en tysk leirvakt i konsentrasjonsleiren Ravensbrück. Hun vokste opp i Fürstenberg/Havel, bare noen kilometer ifra konsentrasjonsleiren hvor hun begynte å jobbe som 19-åring.^[1] Etter hvert avanserte hun og ble sjefsvakt (Oberaufseherin) og ledet opplæringen av nye fangevoktere; blant disse var Irma Grese og Elisabeth Volkenrath. Etter at andre verdenskrigen var slutt ble Binz sammens med femten andre leirvakter fremstilt for retten ved den første av Ravensbrücksrettssakene. Hun ble under rettssaken blant annet anklaget for å ha slått, skutt, pisket og seksuelt mishandlet kvinnelige leirfanger.^[2] Dorothea Binz ble 3 februar 1947 dømt til døden ved henging og ble avrettet 3 måneder senere av Albert Pierrepoint.

Referanser

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^Helm, Sarah (12. januar 2015). «Giggling Over Genocide». Scottish Daily Mail. Besøkt 9. august 2022 – via www.pressreader.com.
^Sjoberg, Laura (2011), «Women and the Genocidal Ra