Emma Anne Zimmer (August 14, 1888 – September 20, 1948) was a female overseer at the Ravensbrück concentration camp for two years during the war. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ravensbrück (ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk was a notorious women's Concentration camp during in World War II, located in northern Germany 90 km north of Berlin
Life
Emma Zimmer was born as Emma Anne Mezel in Schlüchtern, Germany. Schlüchtern is a Town in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse, Germany. On June 1, 1943, at the age of 54, she was granted permission to stay on staff as a female overseer at Ravensbrück. Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Emma was the original chief woman officer at Ravensbrueck from 1939 until 1941. She took an active part in the selection of internees to be gassed during 1941 at Bernberg Euthanasia Center near Berlin. Emma also stood out for her abuse she meted out towards the prisoners. She served as a guard in the Ravensbrück bunker, and was known in the camp as a brutal and very sadistic woman guard.
Dismissal
In January 1945, the Emma was dismissed from her camp service because of either her advanced age (female auxiliary only accepted women between the ages of 18 and 45) or because of chronic alcoholism. Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions The Germans had an SS canteen in each camp, where SS officers would have tremendous eating and drinking bouts. The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Some SS men and women became alcoholics, especially at the end of the war when they knew the Allies would soon be liberating the camps.
Death sentence
Emma Zimmer stood at the seventh Ravensbrück Trial and was sentenced to death for her war crimes. The Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials were a series of seven trials for War crimes against camp officials from the Ravensbrück concentration camp that the British The British government executed her by hanging on September 20, 1948. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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