What the Nazis’ Most Brutal Female Guard Did

SS uniform II. to the end of World War II He was dressed right. This woman, who treated the captives mercilessly even in the smallest act, is known as the most cruel and emotionless of the Nazis.

Being a war criminal, cruelty to prisoners, harassment and rape Although proven, he was sentenced to only 2 years in prison. Although he joined the Nazi Party at first, he was on the civilian side for a while. Somehow later, history introduced this woman to us as the “brutal female guard”.

Let’s start the article by talking about how Anneliese Kohlmann mingled with the Nazis.

Just like other men and women, he was young, 19 years old. joined the Nazi Party. On April 1, 1940, he officially became a member of the party. But he had worked as a tram operator for 4 years despite being in the party. So he was in the civil part of the process.

On November 4, 1944, Kohlmann was drafted into the SS German Women’s Auxiliary Corps. Angeklagt: SS-Frauen vor Gericht (Accused: SS Women in Court According to what is written about this woman in the book named Kohlmann’s education, it took one week. In this training, he was dictated to treat unhappy people especially badly.

His first job was as a guard in Neugraben.

The woman, who had to dig anti-tank trenches, stood at the head of the captives. The women stated that they were harassed by the five guards in particular. Of course, Kohlmann was among them. In March 1945, Tiefstack was sent to the slave labor camp. Witnesses in both camps testified for Kohlmann at the trial.

A woman of Kohlmann at this trial They say that he brutally beat him with blood coming out of his hands and mouth. They add that he hit another prisoner with a stick until his arms changed color rather than bruised.

And their torment was not limited to these. He had brutally responded to even the simplest of crimes and acts.

Kicked and beat a pregnant woman to death; When he saw another woman stealing bread, he hit his hands with a stick 30 times until they were bruised. Ironically, witnesses said that Kohlmann was more brutal with older women. He beat older women more harshly and ruthlessly than younger women. So much so that even some young women were seen to be more compassionate than others.

At trial Kohlmannhas accepted this situation. But he has also defended himself against accusations of persecution, although he has admitted that he has given special treatment to some women.

A woman named Věra Fuchsová experienced this “privileged” treatment herself.

German History In an article of the magazine, Fuchsova stated the following while describing the privileged treatment of this woman:

“A Hamburg We had an SS female guard, She was a young girl and we named her Booby. He treated us well, she. She was a young, beautiful girl, but as we later saw, she was gay. And she fell in love with one of our captive friends.”

Mentioned here are Anneliese Kohlmann herself, and the other person Helene Sommer a Jewish prisoner.

Although Kohlmann’s relationship with Helene is not known exactly, it is said that the two kissed each other and Kohlmann frequented Helene at night.

Sexual abuses were common during the Holocaust. According to the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the guards; they raped the captives in exchange for guaranteeing certain needs and security. The captives who wanted to save their lives just kept silent in desperation.

Kohlmann after the war his relationship with Helene He had planned to continue. According to his statement at the trial, he mentions that after the war, Helene offered him to move to Prague.

On April 8, 1945, Kohlmann helped transfer many of the women from Tiefstack to the camp in Bergen-Belsen.

To everyone “cousin” When he wasn’t allowed to talk to Helene, whom he introduced as a spy, he walked in wearing a prisoner’s uniform at the shift change. His plan was to find Helene and go to Prague and save her from all punishment.

British troops liberated the Bergen-Belsen camp on April 15, 1945. Kohlmann was hiding among the camp with prisoners, but was captured on April 17. According to Fuchsová: “After the liberation of Belsen We suddenly realized that Booby was among us in striped prisoner clothes. What should we do now? Yes, she was nice to us, but she was an SS woman, so what to do with her?”

All other guardsmen, such as Anneliese Kohlmann, were given due punishment for their torture.

Their punishment was to dig mass graves for the people who were killed. They would continue this sentence until they were tried. Appearing before a court-martial in June 1946, Kohlmann affirmed the abuses he committed while declaring the women to be subordinate to male commanders. He claimed that he had beaten himself because he was shielding him from his “violent” tattoo.

In his statement, he stated that he only served as a guard for 5 months and that he did not kill any women, and that his sentence should be reduced accordingly. Because it wears out the captives physically and emotionally, it is only Sentenced to 2 years in prison. In 2013, Yonatan Calderon’s play Under the Skin also tells the story of Kohlmann.

This female guard, who died in Berlin on September 17, 1977 at the age of 56, He was just one of the thousands of guards in the concentration camps. But history will always remember him as “the cruelest”.