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Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a German overseer in the Stutthof concentration camp who brutalized and selected prisoners for the gas chambers. She was tried and hanged in 1946 on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk, along with 10 other defendants.
Herta Oberheuser was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. She was the only female defendant in the Nuremberg "Doctors' trial" and served 10 years in prison for crimes against humanity.
This article explores the sexual abuse and discrimination of Jewish men and women by the Nazi regime and its allies during World War II. It covers the origins, motivations, stereotypes, and erasure of this violence, as well as its impact on survivors and history.
He was later accused of high treason against Nazi Germany for having leaked uncensored material related to the paratroopers' activities on Crete that included photographs taken in Kondomari, and for having helped some Cretans to flee. [5] Weixler was arrested by the Gestapo, court martialled and imprisoned from early 1944.
This web page lists the last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes, based on wanted lists published by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. It includes their names, positions, dates of birth and death, and short summaries of their involvement and legal status.
The web page covers the mass rapes of women by Soviet troops in Germany during and after World War II. It estimates the number of victims, the motives and consequences of the rapes, and the Soviet and Allied responses.
Aktion T4 was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945. It involved killing people with mental or physical disabilities in psychiatric hospitals, using lethal gas and other methods, and was authorised by Hitler but later condemned as murder.
Learn about the brutal killings of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in German-occupied Poland from 1943 to 1945. The article covers the background, motives, methods, death toll, and legacy of the Volhynia massacre and its impact on Polish-Ukrainian relations.