Herta Ehlert
We start our list with one of the most infamous women in Nazi history, which is Herta Ehlert. Initially, Herta was a bakery worker and was called up for service to the SS in 1939. She was trained to be a camp supervisor at Ravensbrück. Afterward, she was sent to the Majdanek extermination camp in 1942.
Two years later, she was sent to Auschwitz before working as a guard at Bergen-Belsen. After the war, she faced a trial for war crimes, but to defend herself, she said she never beat any prisoners and tried to intervene whenever other guards did that. Despite her testimony, the jury wasn’t impressed, and she was sentenced to 15 years.
