The female guards at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück are less well known than their male counterparts, but they were no less brutal

As the Allies liberated the camps, SS women were generally still in active service. Many were captured in or near the camps of Ravensbrück, Bergen Belsen,

BU 9302. Lance Corporal E J Burck talking to German female prisoners of war during morning parade at a camp for SS Luftwaffe and civilian women prisoners at Vilvoorde on the outskirts of Brussels

Female camp guards and their fates.

Soviet women played a major role in World War II on the Eastern Front. While most women worked in the industry, agriculture, transport, and other

These are photos of the female prison camp guards which were taken after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp.while they were awaiting trail in 1945. Their sentences ranged from a few short years imprisonment to the death sentence. Here’s an interesting challenge, see if you can guess just by looking at the photos(...)

Female German Luftwaffe POWs listen to a comrade playing the harmonica at Camp Vilvoorde . The camp was managed by British forces of the 21st Army Group and housed over 12,000 Axis POWs, both men and…

In this excerpt from her book If This Is a Woman, British author Sarah Helm unearths the story of Ravensbrück, a camp run by the Nazis that was largely forgotten after the war.

BU 9312. British guards check on prisoners in a barrack block at a camp for SS Luftwaffe and civilian women prisoners of war at Vilvoorde on the outskirts of Brussels

Female camp guards and their fates.

Sniper 3rd Shock Army Guard Junior Sergeant Catherine Kibovsky colorized w. photoshop

The POWs burrowed to freedom from a Welsh encampment in 1945