EXECUTION of Emma Zimmer - Brutal NAZI Guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz Concentration Camps

Execution of Emma Zimmer - Brutal Nazi Guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz Concentration Camps. Emma Zimmer, the eldest child of the pharmacist Oscar Mezel and his wife Maria was born on the 14th of August 1888 in Haßmersheim, then part of the German Empire.
Zimmer was 44 years old when in 1933 Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party came into power in Germany. Women, such as Emma, were central to Adolf Hitler’s plan to create an ideal “Aryan” community. Hitler valued women for both their activism in the Nazi movement and their biological power as generators of the race. In Nazi thinking, a larger, racially purer population would enhance Germany’s military strength and provide settlers to colonize conquered territory in eastern Europe. The Third Reich’s aggressive population policy encouraged “racially pure” women to bear as many children as possible.
Nazi population policy took a radical turn in 1936 when SS leaders created the state-directed program known as Lebensborn meaning Fount of Life. Lebensborn ordinance prescribed that every SS member should father four children, in or out of wedlock. Lebensborn homes sheltered single mothers with their children, provided birth documents and financial support, and recruited adoptive parents for the children.
In the end, however, the Lebensborn program was never promoted aggressively and only around 7,000 children were born into the Lebensborn homes during the program’s nine-year-long existence. Instead, Nazi population policy concentrated on the family and marriage. The state encouraged matrimony through marriage loans, dispensed family income supplements for each new child, publicly honored "child-rich" families, bestowed the Cross of Honor of the German Mother on women bearing four or more babies, and increased punishments for abortion.
Part of that camp system was Lichtenburg concentration camp where Emma Zimmer became a guard in 1937. One year later she was appointed assistant to the female superintendent of this camp Johanna Langefeld.
Housed in a Renaissance castle, Lichtenburg was among the first concentration camps to be built by the Nazis and was operated by the SS from 1933 to 1939. From 1937 to 1939, it held only female prisoners.
One of the camp’s most prominent prisoners was Olga Benário Prestes - a German Communist activist. In February 1938, after the birth of her child, she was first sent to the Lichtenburg concentration camp and, later when it was closed in May 1939, Benario Prestes as well as Emma Zimmer and the remaining Lichtenburg Nazi staff and prisoners were sent to the newly opened Ravensbrück concentration camp. At Ravensbrück, which replaced Lichtenburg as the main camp for female prisoners, Benário Prestes was whipped, tortured, and placed in a punishment bunker while working as slave labor in a Siemens factory.
At Ravensbrück, Zimmer became a guard in the Bunker - the punishment block - dealing with prisoner punishment and was known in the camp for being brutal and sadistic in her guard duties.
After the war, Maria Wiedmaier, a Holocaust survivor, recalled how at Ravensbrück Zimmer became infamous for brutal treatment of prisoners whom she would beat with everything that was at hand without any reason until they lay still. According to Wiedmaier, on one occasion Zimmer grabbed a young Polish woman who was having hysterical fits one winter morning during roll call, and ‘threw her into the water repeatedly’. The Polish woman was then expected to work outside the camp without changing and died shortly after.
At Auschwitz, Zimmer was notorious for her brutal and sadistic behavior towards the prisoners. After the war, one Holocaust Survivor remembered Emma Zimmer as follows: "Our supervisor was an old and mean SS-woman called Emma Zimmer. She was vicious and dangerous and frightening us constantly with threats, proclaiming in a sadistic voice, "I will report you and then you will go away, you know where? Just one way-up the chimney." We hated her and were scared of her." From May 1943 Zimmer headed the postal censorship office in the women's camp of the Auschwitz concentration camp and in September 1943 she was awarded the War Merit Cross II Class without swords.
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[@wholelottapurrring5392]

She was relatively old compared to some of the other death camp personnel mentioned in this series. Job ✔ , Mr Pierrepoint

[@TheDigitalApple]

Thanks to this channel, it shows various despicable individuals of the Nazi regime and their heinous crimes!

[@petergianarakos9203]

God Bless Albert Pierrepont for sweeping away the trash. I have studied the Holocaust, off and on, for years and I thought I knew almost too much about this horrific history. However, Your fascinating and informative channel has only made me realize that I don't know as much as I thought. Thank you. I must say that only 1 other person made comments is a bad sign. There should be millions of views and this subject must be taught to new generations or it will be forgotten.

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Hi Peter. Thank you so much for watching us, your nice words and support. We really appreciate it and comments like yours make us go on with this project as it is incredibly demanding to "dig" in all what happened and then write about it and edit the video. Keep watching us, we have very special things coming for you! Thanks again and we send greetings to you and your family

[@nitsu2947]

You forgot Steven Woods. Bad of a hangman he maybe, those criminals do deserve just a little more than being left hanging

[@martinschulz326]

Well. Pierrepont changed his mind about death penalty. He said, it is useless.

[@ladyhonor822]

Peter I'll tell you something. I'm just an ancient critical care nurse. I took care of patients with tattoos on their inner forearm 😱🙀😭 I'll never understand it. Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲

[@mjanny6330]

No one will ever forget. It's practically illegal to do so lol.

[@720jlconner]

Orders or not, how does one perpetrate such evil? How did they sleep at night knowing what horrors they've done? Straight evil.

[@stevebaker6149]

Brilliant documentary, yet again. Many thanks.

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Steve, thank you

[@david2727]

I only shed tears for the incident people that were taken away from this word. Never for the monsters that took them.

[@ladyhonor822]

David that's completely understandable and human.

[@bigzach7778]

Thanks Nasa

[@Steve992.1]

nobody is innocent in this world, nobody.

[@mjanny6330]

You fake tears for whoever it's trendy to pity at any given moment lol.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

@@Steve992.1What are you guilty of?

[@14Aymara]

Her face says it all: pure evil. Thank you for another great video.

[@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow]

I shed no tears for Emma Zimmer.

[@david2727]

Thank you for showing us the ugly side of history most people nowadays look away for such things not realizing if you do your doomed to repeat the same mistakes.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

David, thank you for watching us and your kind words

[@david2727]

@@WorldHistoryVideos your welcome and please never stop what your doing.

[@dixonbidenzmouth4115]

True we have another Hitler his name is biden

[@mjanny6330]

KZbin is utterly saturated with content like this. People are obsessed with it, they look at things like this from the past to avoid the evil present today.

[@dougieranger]

There were no tears shed for Emma Zimmer.

[@snippyJ]

I love the way he ends his videos with that quote.

[@clearcreek69]

I wouldn't shed tears for Emma either

[@Hoosier_Daddy69]

@@clearcreek69 I like her smile :)

[@anthonymitchell8893]

he dosent know that for sure ?

[@dougieranger]

@@anthonymitchell8893 No, true, but given the despicable acts that she carried out, we can safely assume that there were no, or few, tears shed for Emma Zimmer. Were he to say there were very few tears shed for Emma Zimmer, it doesn’t carry quite the same dramatic effect.

[@NMESEVER]

Thank you all at this channel. This all can be hard to watch for some but I want to know how and understand why. The manner in which you present what occurred is great for me as a father to show my children one day. I want them to hopefully understand how easily things can change without the checks and balances of us as one race. It’s a big task but you have given me a great platform to begin with. Thank you! By the way. Who is the narrator on this video? He does a fantastic job with tone and feel of what’s being presented.

[@Caramel1806]

Who is the narrator? That is a good question 🤔 It sounds like he does most, if not all of the videos. You make a good point about using the videos to teach children one day.

[@andrewbyrne2173]

I would definitely be interested in a video on Olga Benario Prestes. I hadn’t heard of her before.

[@georgiabh13]

It's a great story!

[@robertfaro9756]

I need to watch you guys more. Thanks for making great content.

[@renee1961]

Good day. As Always, Thank You. I Appreciate you giving names, and faces to these Wicked creatures! I'm learning So Much from your videos! Keep up the Excellent work, please! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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Renee, thank you. It's a blessing to have viewers like you :)

[@renee1961]

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[@zillsburyy1]

karens of their day

[@susancowan3221]

Excellent! Very informative.

[@renee1961]

So EVIL! UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY! Dear GOD!!

[@MrSmiley1964]

I live on several acres out in the country, and my neighbor had a mean dog that he would let loose every now and then to terrorize all of his neighbors and their animals/pets. One day the dog was loose and had chased my wife's cats, so she sent me out to look for them. I went to the bottom of my property and found one of the cats up in a tree, and while I was trying to decide how to get it down the dog came out of the brush snarling. I reached for my holster and took out my pistol as the dog charged me. I fired 4 rounds from my 357, hitting it 3 times in the chest and face. Klaus fell like a stone just a few short feet from my feet, Other than my neighbor's 7 y/old daughter, there were no tears shed for Willie.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

im shedding a tear know you heartless c----t willie WIILIE 😭😭😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😢😢🤤🤤🤤😎🐒

[@lorenzbroll0101]

She thought 'Dolph would want to marry her & have their babies too. Mad as well as twisted!

[@tonyjones1560]

It’s fascinating, albeit in a very frightening way, how this abomination produced so many people (from all walks of life) who transformed from ordinary people to monsters willing to “do the most” to…further the murder. There’s a lesson in here for us today🤔

[@seanthompson258]

Evil is the direct opposite of God and thats what these people were and they still have to face EL the ALmighty God for what they did and No Doubt Hell is there destiny!

[@janethomas7802]

We learn and remember from history. This is what 1 person can do.

[@ladyhonor822]

RIP innocent prisoners. I'll never understand why. I'm just an ancient critical care nurse, I took care of patients with tattoos on their inner forearm 😱🙀 Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲

[@felipedim5]

The narrator has an amazing voice.

[@UVF79]

Absolutely disgusting what this evil person committed

[@prodigalpriest]

Alfred Pierrepoint is someone who I will shed tears of gratitude for due to his work in weeding out the evil among us.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

he certainly saw a few people loosing control of tbere bowels as have i if you know you know 🔞🚭🚯🚱🚳🔞📵🚷☢☣

[@josephstabile9154]

Not even one (tear)!

[@anthonymitchell8893]

i cried like a new born joe

[@josephstabile9154]

​@@anthonymitchell8893 Wonder why? Was it for all her piiable victims? Maybe you have Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA)!

[@peteacher52]

Death at the hand of Albert Pierrepoint? Far too merciful because he was the best at making a quick end. More appropriate for this slag would have been leaving it to the mercy of some of those it tortured, planning what they are going to do it in its hearing.

[@thomasbrookes2266]

They say a man should never hit a woman, i wouldve treated her like a punchbag, plz excuse me.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

wife beating coward 😎

[@georgebrown8312]

It is bad enough when men who worked as SS guards at various concentration camps were cruel and bestial, but when some women joined the SS and became cruel and bestial SS guards toward prisoners it was worse. Those women brought just as much reproach and shame upon themselves as did the men who worked at those hellish places. They also disgraced their fellow women because, under normal circumstances women are supposed to be embodiments of love for other. Thank you for this eye-opening video.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

equal opportunities george we need diversity im reporting you to the ministry of level playing fields expect a erly morning call from the men in long black coats im sorry i had to inform on you its nothing personel 😙😙😂😂🤓🤤😎

[@dying101666]

In normal circumstances sometimes women are worse.

[@renee1961]

Thanks!

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Renee, thank you :)

[@rosyb7436]

Delle donne uniche al mondo ad essere esseri viventi senza il cuore

[@scottlarue1834]

I love your tales of the women of the SS.

[@lethalwolf7455]

Love the content but please be more careful with the titles, Bestial Alcoholic? You’ve just given my wife a new nickname for me!

[@anthonymitchell8893]

dies she like her back door getting smashed in guvernor ?

[@senanshortt5521]

What some of these so-called women did to prisoners is enough to make you boke🤮any death meted out to them doesn’t even touch justice for their cruelty

[@shuffman8094]

Hildegard Lachert should have met the same end.

[@StephenLuke]

RIH Emma Zimmer (1888-1948)

[@richardshiggins704]

60 yo , she lived far too long .

[@CainEverest]

Fun little tidbit: My best friend's great-aunt was actually Eva Braun. Shortly after WWII, her family immigrated to America

[@ladycplum]

1:31 Unless I'm mistaken, that's Albert Speer's eldest daughter Hilde.

[@steved8053]

400 acres....berkanau almost all of the barracks have been removed this woman tour guide i met had been doing this tour for 15 years this was in 2012

[@lorrycamill6502]

They removed them so people can forget and they do the same

[@algeborusas2775]

I cringe when it is said women took the jobs because they liked the working conditions. "Yes, you can whip and beat people to death!" "Cool!"

[@renee1961]

My heart Breaks for The Innocent Victims, and Survivors. 🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️May they have Peace. God Bless The Brave Souls That Fought for Them 🙏🙏🙏🙏. I Pray they found Peace,too.🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@annedwyer797]

"Only" abt 7000 children were born in the Lebensborn program (2:25)? I'd say that's a pretty large number.

[@redtrees]

watched

[@gadjox]

Who is creating these videos? Is it an university, a private person?

[@carlsowell8099]

It still amazes me how cruel and how people did this with no conscious. I just hope people who were guilty of this kind of behavior ask God for forgiveness EVERYDAY!!! Maybe karma will bite them in the ass. Those that are still living.

[@sroevukasroevuka]

No great loss.

[@7thsonofa7thson80]

No great loss

[@katarinastene9069]

She doesn`t look like monster on the photo..

[@tedwatson9929]

SHE GOT OFF EASY

[@salutiesse]

xx

[@tiredlawdog]

and she looks like your favorite old aunt.

[@Andrew-df1dr]

I shed tears for the families of anyone who is executed as well as the legal system that executed them, as well as any victims of the crimes that sent the person to be executed.

[@user-tb5zv2yc3j]

Revolting woman

[@dankwartdenkhardt5714]

Was für ein Frauenzimmer...

[@Ricenoodles80]

10:20 I wonder if he was smiling like this when he was hanging her?

[@mjanny6330]

You should change the channel name to "Nazi obsession" lol

[@andrewbyrne2173]

Or just add war 2 to the name.

[@tomcross3000]

she reminds me of aunt lydia

[@hypsyzygy506]

She looks like a neighbour of mine.

[@lorrycamill6502]

Emma drinks and get crazy like the one they had in Gongress Nancy drunken Pelosi 🤣

[@dixonbidenzmouth4115]

She reminds me of Hitlery Clinton

[@georgemason4921]

These prisoners will be resurrected in the new paradise on earth. Prov Isaiah 45:18 Math5:5

[@mathieulatour883]

would change the narrator please , he's fungy , peace

[@jackrosario9990]

These guys must be republicans!

[@gbafongbafon]

Aunt flows in town ☺️

[@jellybeaner3003]

I wonder if Hans Zimmer is related to her 🤔