Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Nazi Ravensbrück camp: How ordinary women became SS torturers
Located about 90 km north of Berlin, Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp for female prisoners operated from 1939 to 1945. It is estimated that over 130,000 women were imprisoned, most of them were political prisoners and Jewish from Poland, the Soviet Union, Germany, Austria, and France. Approximately 50,000 of them could not leave the camp alive at the end of April 1945 when it was liberated. Since the camp was exclusively for women, the guards were accordingly all women, who were all SSs, Nazi’s paramilitary organization’s officers. They wore terrifying black uniforms, guarded the camp, disciplined, tortured, and even killed the prisoners, just like other male prison guards. They didn’t seem to be so inhumane or cruel in nature but they treated the detainees degradingly.
Why did they? Are humans naturally brutal? In an extraordinary circumstance, humans, either men or women, could become a monster.
Read the article and learn about this Nazi’s horrifying concentration camp and its guards.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55661782
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