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Margot Elisabeth Drechsel, also spelled Drechsel, Drechsler or Drexler (17 May 1908 – 28 May 1945), was an SS-Aufseherin (concentration camp guard) at Nazi concentration camps during World War II. For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced to death and hanged.
Drechsel was head of all camp offices in Auschwitz. Her appearance was reportedly repellent, as one female Auschwitz prisoner recounted: "camp leader Drechsel was there, her buck teeth sticking out, even when her mouth is closed." Inmates described her as vulgar, thin and ugly. After the war, many survivors testified of her notoriously brutal beatings. She carried out indoor selections wearing a white coat and white gloves, disguised as a doctor.
Drechsel regularly moved between the Auschwitz I camp and Auschwitz II, and involved herself in selections of women and children to be either exploited as slave labor, or murdered in the . On 1 November 1944, she went to Flossenbürg concentration camp as an Oberaufseherin and as a trainer of enlisted overseers. In January 1945, she was moved back to the Ravensbrück subcamp at Neustadt-Glewe.
In May 1945, several former Auschwitz prisoners recognized her on a road from Pirna to Bautzen in the Soviet zone, and took her to the Soviet Military Police. The Soviets condemned her to death and executed her in May or June 1945 by hanging in Bautzen.
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