8. Greta Bosel
It’s both ironical and sad that a nurse would turn to killing. In 1939 Bosel was sent to work at the Ravenbruck concentration camp. There she held the post of “work imput overseer” which meant that she was among those who were to decide which prisoners should be immediately killed by gassing and which one’s could be sent to a small concentration camp named Uckermark when young girl between 16 to 21 years of age were kept. Bosel was a true Nazi at heart and echoed the Nazi philosophy “If they cannot work let them rot.” When the Soviet Red Army was approaching the SS of Ravenbruck decided to annihilate all the prisoners but they could not do away with all the prisoners so they fled. Greta Bosel and other camp guards (including Dorothea Binz) were captured. Following the Hamburg Ravensbruck War Crimes Trial, Bosel was executed on 3 May 1945.
In the above video Bosel and Binz among other SS guards are being sentenced for their crimes. Interesting fact: Bosel was hanged using the same noose as Binz.
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