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Kaethe Hoern was a female SS supervisor at two concentration camps from 1944 until April 1945. The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the

Camp work

Many details about Hoern are unknown, though it is known she was born in Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. In 1944, she arrived at Ravensbrück to begin her training as a female SS guard. Ravensbrück (ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk was a notorious women's Concentration camp during in World War II, located in northern Germany 90 km north of Berlin She trained under Dorothea Binz, and soon became known among the female overseers as a "leader type. Dorothea "Thea" Binz ( March 16 1920 - May 2 1947) was an SS supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during " In the summer of 1944, Hoern was given the title of Oberaufseherin in Ravensbrück, and assigned as head wardress to the Buchenwald subcamp near Allenburg, Germany. Buchenwald concentration camp (German Konzentrationslager or 'KZ' Buchenwald) was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain near There she commanded up to fifty SS Aufseherin at one time, as well as over 400 women prisoners. Of the 55000 guards who served in Nazi concentration camps, about 3700 were women In April 1945, she fled the Allendorf subcamp. Allendorf may refer to the following places in Germany Allendorf Gießen, a town in the Gießen district Hesse Allendorf

Trial and conviction

In 1947 an American Tribunal tried the former head camp wardress for war crimes. One survivor pointed out how she would beat sick prisoners to make them work and punched one inmate in her ear to wake her up. Eventually she served seven years in prison for the maltreatment of concentration camp prisoners. Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people commonly in large groups without trial


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