Ravensbruck Trial: The Sentencing [Das Urteil]

Identifier
irn1002450
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.358.1
  • RG-60.3214
Dates
1 Jan 1947 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • (Producer)

Scope and Content

Welt im Film. Issue no. 90 Ravensbruck Trial. INTs, Curio House in Hamburg, Allied Military Tribunal presided over by British Gen. Westropp, sentences those responsible for the Ravensbruck women's camp. MCUs, Johann Schwarzhuber; Dorothea Binz, former SS woman guard; Carmen Maria Mory; and others sentenced to death by hanging. 01:12:40 The three women guards shown are: Dorothrea 'Thea' Binz (Stellvertrende Oberaufseherin/Replacement Chief Officer); Wachterin Margarete Mewes (who served as guard in the Ravensbrueck 'bunker'-jail); and Arbeitseinsatzfuehrerin Greta Boesel (born Mueller) who dealt with all the prisoner labor commands at the camp. The three other women seated are prisoners (not guards) who worked for the Nazis in creating an atmosphere of terror at the camp.

Note(s)

  • Issue originally reviewed in 1947.

Subjects

  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
  • TRIALS
  • WOMEN
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • RAVENSBRUECK
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • GERMANY
  • SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)

Places

  • Hamburg, Germany

Genre

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