Jenny-Wanda Barkmann

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Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
Crime against humanity
TrialStutthof trials
Criminal penaltyDeath

Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (30 May 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a German overseer in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war.

Biography

Barkmann is believed to have spent her childhood in Hamburg.

In 1944, she became an

Aufseherin, or overseer, in the Stutthof SK-III women's subcamp, where she brutalized prisoners, some to death. She also selected women and children for the gas chambers.[1] She was so merciless that the women prisoners nicknamed her the "Beautiful Spectre".[1]

Barkmann fled Stutthof and hid out in

Stutthof Trial, where she and other defendants were convicted for their crimes at the camp.[1] After she was found guilty she declared, "Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short."[2]

Public execution of Stutthof concentration camp personnel on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging. In the foreground, from left to right, are female camp overseers Barkmann, Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, and Gerda Steinhoff.

Barkmann was publicly executed by short-drop hanging along with 10 other defendants from the trial on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk on 4 July 1946. Former Stutthof prisoners volunteered to conduct the executions. She was 24 years old.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Jenny-Wanda Barkmann Biography". Liberation Route Europe. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  2. ^ Stutthof Concentration Camp — Fold3.com – Historical Military Records. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  3. ^ "1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp". Executed today. Retrieved 22 July 2012.

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