10 Female SS Guards Whose Victims Lived to See Them Face Justice
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Did you know that most of the women in this video were convicted and sentenced not because of documents or photographs, but because the people they had brutalized survived — and walked into a courtroom to name them to their faces? Or that one Auschwitz survivor stood before Maria Mandl, the guard known as the Beast of Auschwitz, and publicly forgave her in the days before she was led to the gallows?
Between 1945 and 1976, a series of war crimes trials across Europe put some of the most notorious female SS guards in the dock — the overseers who ran the women's camps at Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and beyond. This is the story of 10 of those women and the survivors whose testimony finally held them to account: who they were, what the courts actually proved, and how the historical record stands in 2026.
⏱ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 — No. 10 Alice Orlowski Majdanek
4:14 — No. 9 Danz Lived To 91
7:50 — No. 8 Greta Bösel Killer Nurse
10:34 — No. 7 Elisabeth Marschall Head Nurse
13:07 — No. 6 Emma Zimmer Founder Guard
16:18 — No. 5 Therese Brandl Auschwitz
19:42 — No. 4 Ruth Neudeck Beautiful Devil
23:35 — No. 3 Hildegard Lächert Bloody Brigitte
27:23 — No. 2 Dorothea Binz Head Wardress
31:43 — No. 1 Maria Mandl Beast Auschwitz
39:34 — The Pattern They Left Behind
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10 Female SS Guards Whose Victims Lived to See Them Face Justice
Women At War
80,186 views
#WW2 #History #HolocaustHistory
Did you know that most of the women in this video were convicted and sentenced not because of documents or photographs, but because the people they had brutalized survived — and walked into a courtroom to name them to their faces? Or that one Auschwitz survivor stood before Maria Mandl, the guard known as the Beast of Auschwitz, and publicly forgave her in the days before she was led to the gallows?
Between 1945 and 1976, a series of war crimes trials across Europe put some of the most notorious female SS guards in the dock — the overseers who ran the women's camps at Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and beyond. This is the story of 10 of those women and the survivors whose testimony finally held them to account: who they were, what the courts actually proved, and how the historical record stands in 2026.
⏱ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 — No. 10 Alice Orlowski Majdanek
4:14 — No. 9 Danz Lived To 91
7:50 — No. 8 Greta Bösel Killer Nurse
10:34 — No. 7 Elisabeth Marschall Head Nurse
13:07 — No. 6 Emma Zimmer Founder Guard
16:18 — No. 5 Therese Brandl Auschwitz
19:42 — No. 4 Ruth Neudeck Beautiful Devil
23:35 — No. 3 Hildegard Lächert Bloody Brigitte
27:23 — No. 2 Dorothea Binz Head Wardress
31:43 — No. 1 Maria Mandl Beast Auschwitz
39:34 — The Pattern They Left Behind
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