The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Elisabeth Volkenrath - The Witch of Auschwitz

After the Second World War, the true crimes of the Nazi Regime would emerge as the Allies and the Red Army liberated many different concentration camps. Camps such as Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen told the true story of the Holocaust, and the liberators were greeted with horrific scenes of mass murder and extermination. The prisoners told of the barbaric treatment they had suffered at the hands of the SS and the Nazi guards. At Bergen-Belsen, the typhus infested camp saw thousands of corpses discovered, along with a number of SS guards who refused to flee the camp.

One of these was Elisabeth Volkenrath, a female guard who had served at Belsen and also Auschwitz. She was known as an incredibly brutal woman and after her arrest, the true stories of Volkenrath's brutality would emerge. Victims told the Belsen Trial that she regularly beat prisoners unconscious with a truncheon, and even at one point pushed an elderly prisoner down some stairs to her death. She was known for carrying out some beatings that were so severe that prisoners were killed by her.

Volkenrath also took part in many of the selections that took place at the concentration camps, deciding who would live and work at Auschwitz and then who would be sent straight to the gas chambers. Elisabeth Volkenrath was placed on trial and for her horrific crimes of the Holocaust, she was sentenced to death and executed.

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