Female guards in Nazi concentration camps
Female guards in Nazi concentration camps Aufseherin was the position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Of the 50,000 guards who served in the concentration camps, approximately 5,000 were women. In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück. The year after, the Nazis began conscripting women because of a shortage of male guards. In the context of these camps, the German position title of Aufseherin translates to (female) "overseer" or "attendant". Later female guards were dispersed to Bolzano (1944–1945), Kaiserwald-Riga (1943–44), Mauthausen (March – May 1945), Stutthof (1942–1945), Vaivara[1] (1943–1944), Vught (1943–1944), and at Nazi concentration camps, subcamps, work camps, detention camps and other posts. Herta Bothe, in Celle awaiting trial, August 1945 Mugshot of Ilse Koch Mugshot of Bergen-Belsen guard Irma Grese Hermine Braunsteiner of KZ Majdanek Maria Mandl of Aufseherin Recruitment Fema