Elisabeth Volkenrath
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Elisabeth Volkenrath was a German supervisor at several Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Volkenrath in 1945
Among SS women camp guards at Bergen-Belsen, including Herta Bothe and Irene Haschke
Belsen trials
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The Belsen trials were a series of several trials, starting on 17 September 1945, that the Allied occupation forces conducted against former officials and functionaries of Nazi Germany after the end o
Elisabeth Volkenrath
…closed. From February 1945, she was Oberaufseherin at Bergen-Belsen. In April 1945, Volkenrath was arrested by the British Army, and was tried in the Belsen trials, at which she was convicted of war crimes. She claimed during her testimony that "it was really awful in the camps, but it was awful for us too. We…
Place of the Belsen trial: old MTV gymnasium, Lindenstraße 30, Lüneburg
Josef Kramer, photographed in leg irons at Belsen before being removed to the POW cage at Celle, 17 April 1945.
Franz Hössler at Bergen-Belsen
Interior shot of the court room ten days before the start of the trial