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'''Greta Bösel''' (née '''Mueller''') (9 May 1908 – 3 May 1947) was a |
'''Greta Bösel''' (née '''Mueller''') (9 May 1908 – 3 May 1947) was a [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] German [[Nursing|nurse]] and camp guard at [[Ravensbrück concentration camp]]. She was arrested and tried for her role in [[the Holocaust]], found guilty of [[War crime|war crimes]], and subsequently executed. |
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⚫ | Her rank at the camp was ''Arbeitseinsatzführerin'' (Work Input Overseer). In November 1944, Bösel was supposed to have been one of the staff members to select prisoners for the [[gas chamber]], or for transfer to [[Uckermark concentration camp|Uckermark]].<ref name="BazylerTuerkheimer2015">{{cite book |author1=Michael J. Bazyler |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BMtRCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128 |title=Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust |author2=[[Frank M. Tuerkheimer]] |date=1 December 2015 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-9924-1 |pages=141}}</ref> |
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Bösel was a trained nurse. Born in [[Elberfeld|Wuppertal-Elberfeld]], [[Germany]], she became a camp guard at Ravensbrück in August 1944.<ref name="Schäfer2002" /> |
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⚫ | Her rank at the camp was ''Arbeitseinsatzführerin'' (Work Input Overseer). In November 1944, Bösel was supposed to have been one of the staff members to select prisoners for the [[gas chamber]], or for transfer to [[Uckermark concentration camp|Uckermark]].<ref name="BazylerTuerkheimer2015">{{cite book |author1=Michael J. Bazyler |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BMtRCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128 |title=Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust |author2=[[Frank M. Tuerkheimer]] |date=1 December 2015 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-9924-1 |pages=141}}</ref> She is known to have told another Nazi [[SS]] guard "If they [prisoners] cannot work, let them rot."<ref name="Schäfer2002">{{cite book|author=Silke Schäfer|title=Zum Selbstverständnis von Frauen im Konzentrationslager. Das Lager Ravensbrück.|url=https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/bitstream/11303/825/1/Dokument_35.pdf|publisher=TU Berlin|pages=266}}</ref> |
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Bösel, along with other female guards including [[Dorothea Binz]], stood accused at the first [[Hamburg Ravensbrück trials|Ravensbrück Trial]], which took place between December 1946 and February 1947 in [[Hamburg]], Germany. The court found her guilty of maltreatment, murder and taking part in the "selections". She was executed for her crimes at 9:55 am<ref name="Schäfer2002" /> on 3 May 1947, 24 minutes after [[Elisabeth Marschall]],<ref name="Schäfer2002" /> by [[Albert Pierrepoint]] in [[Hamelin Prison]]. |
Bösel, along with other female guards including [[Dorothea Binz]], stood accused at the first [[Hamburg Ravensbrück trials|Ravensbrück Trial]], which took place between December 1946 and February 1947 in [[Hamburg]], Germany. The court found her guilty of maltreatment, murder and taking part in the "selections". She was executed for her crimes at 9:55 am<ref name="Schäfer2002" /> on 3 May 1947, 24 minutes after [[Elisabeth Marschall]],<ref name="Schäfer2002" /> by [[Albert Pierrepoint]] in [[Hamelin Prison]]. |
Revision as of 07:02, 31 October 2023
Greta Bösel | |
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Born | |
Died | May 3, 1947 | (aged 38)
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
Occupation | Nurse |
Criminal status | Executed |
Conviction(s) | War crimes |
Trial | Hamburg Ravensbrück trials |
Criminal penalty | Death |
Greta Bösel (née Mueller) (9 May 1908 – 3 May 1947) was a Nazi German nurse and camp guard at Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was arrested and tried for her role in the Holocaust, found guilty of war crimes, and subsequently executed.
Nazi atrocities, trial and execution
Bösel was a trained nurse. Born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany, she became a camp guard at Ravensbrück in August 1944.[1]
Her rank at the camp was Arbeitseinsatzführerin (Work Input Overseer). In November 1944, Bösel was supposed to have been one of the staff members to select prisoners for the gas chamber, or for transfer to Uckermark.[2] She is known to have told another Nazi SS guard "If they [prisoners] cannot work, let them rot."[1]
After the death march of prisoners out of Ravensbrück following the impending liberation by the Red Army of Soviet troops, Bösel fled the camp with her husband. She was later caught and arrested by British troops.
Bösel, along with other female guards including Dorothea Binz, stood accused at the first Ravensbrück Trial, which took place between December 1946 and February 1947 in Hamburg, Germany. The court found her guilty of maltreatment, murder and taking part in the "selections". She was executed for her crimes at 9:55 am[1] on 3 May 1947, 24 minutes after Elisabeth Marschall,[1] by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin Prison.
References
- ^ a b c d Silke Schäfer. Zum Selbstverständnis von Frauen im Konzentrationslager. Das Lager Ravensbrück (PDF). TU Berlin. p. 266.
- ^ Michael J. Bazyler; Frank M. Tuerkheimer (1 December 2015). Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust. NYU Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-4798-9924-1.
- 1908 births
- 1947 deaths
- Executed German mass murderers
- Executed German women
- Executed people from North Rhine-Westphalia
- Female guards in Nazi concentration camps
- German women nurses
- Hamburg Ravensbrück trials executions
- Holocaust perpetrators in Germany
- Military personnel from Wuppertal
- People from the Rhine Province