Ruth Neudeck

 ( 1920 Births ) 

Ruth Closius-Neudeck (5 July 1920 – 29 July 1948) was a Nazi Party Schutzstaffel (SS) supervisor at a Nazi concentration camp complex from December 1944 until March 1945. She was executed for War crime for her role in the Holocaust.

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Early life Ruth Closius was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). She hoped to become a nurse, but worked a saleswoman in a textiles warehouse. She later married and was known as Ruth Neudeck or Ruth Closius-Neudeck.

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Atrocities in Nazi concentration camps In July 1944, she arrived at the Ravensbrück concentration camp to begin her training to be a camp guard. Neudeck soon began impressing her superiors with her unbending brutality towards the female prisoners, resulting in her promotion to the rank of Blockführerin (Barrack Overseer) in late July 1944.

In the Ravensbrück camp, she was known as one of the most ruthless female guards. Former French prisoner Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz commented after the war that she had seen Neudeck "cut the throat of an inmate with the sharp edge of her shovel".

Another survivor testified that Neudeck "took off the clothes of some inmates, poured cold water over them and made them stand in the cold for hours."

In December 1944, Neudeck was promoted to the rank of Oberaufseherin, and moved to the Uckermark extermination complex subcamp close to Ravensbrück. There she was involved in the selection and execution of over 5,000 women and children and running of the gas chambers. The prisoners were mistreated by Neudeck or her fellow SS . In March 1945, Neudeck became head of the Barth subcamp.

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Capture, trial and execution In late April 1945, she fled the camp but was later captured and detained in prison while the British Army investigated the allegations against her. From 26 April 1948,

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she stood accused at the third Ravensbrück trial, along with other Schutzstaffel (SS) women.Stracey, Heather. (2017) ‘Enfer Des Femmes’: Britain and the Ravensbrück-Hamburg Trials. MS thesis. Canterbury Christ Church University. The 28-year-old former SS supervisor admitted to the accusations of murder and maltreatment made against her.

The British court found Neudeck guilty of and sentenced her to death by hanging. On 29 July 1948, she was executed by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint on the gallows at Hamelin Prison.

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See also

• Female guards in Nazi concentration camps

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Categories: 1920 Births, 1948 Deaths, Executed German Mass Murderers, Executed German Women, Female Guards In Nazi Concentration Camps, Female Mass Murderers, German People Convicted Of Torture, Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials Executions, Holocaust Perpetrators In Germany, Military Personnel From Wrocław, People From The Province Of Lower Silesia

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