The JUSTIFIED Execution Of The Female Guards Of Stutthof

Following the Second World War, a number of high profile war crimes trials took place to bring the perpetrators of the atrocities committed during the conflict to justice. The most high profile trials were the Nuremberg Trials, that brought Hitler's remaining inner circle and Nazi government in front of judges to face up to the crimes committed. But there were also a number of other trials that took place to ensure that the guards who committed barbaric crimes at specific concentration camps were punished. One set of trials that took place was the Stutthof Trials, which were called to bring the guards and staff who worked at Stutthof Concentration Camp to justice.

It was a camp where much horror occurred within the barbed wire fences. Dozens of thousands of prisoners died at Stutthof through beatings, executions, starvation and mass killings. Thousands more died on the death marches and many were shot after being force marched into the sea. Stutthof was a barbaric camp, and during the post-war trials, what shocked many was that a number of the defendants who faced the first trial were young women, young women accused of such brutality and murder with their own hands. These women were, Jenny Wanda Barkmann, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, Ewa Paradies and Gerda Steinhoff.

All of these women were accused of crimes against humanity, and they were sentenced to death. They were taken to a hill outside of Gdansk, and on there stood a number of huge gallows. The women were placed onto trucks and then the executioner placed a noose around their neck, when the trucks drove off they were killed. There was a huge crowd of around 200,000 people who came to see the proceedings that day.

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