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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.
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.
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a German overseer in the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. She was executed by hanging on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk in 1946 for crimes against humanity.
The Wehrmacht, the German armed forces during World War II, committed systematic war crimes, including massacres, rape, looting, and genocide. The article examines the creation, motives, orders, and crimes of the Wehrmacht, as well as the controversies and debates surrounding them.
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.
Hermine Braunsteiner was a Nazi Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps. She was the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States to face trial in West Germany, where she was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald.Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, [1] she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".
Learn about the origin, usage and ethical issues of photographs of the Holocaust, taken by Nazi, Allied and Jewish photographers. Explore the sources, examples and analysis of over two million surviving images of the atrocities.