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Execution of Johanna Bormann Bestial Nazi Guard at Auschwitz & Bergen Belsen Concentration Camps. Bormann started her career as a guard in concentration camps at Lichtenburg in Saxony, where she worked in the kitchen. She took the job because of the money - for mistreating poor female prisoners she was earning 10 times more than she did/had done at a lunatic asylum.
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.
Bormann stayed there from 1938 until May 1939, when the whole camp was evacuated to Ravensbrück women's camp near Berlin.
Ravensbrück, opened in May 1939, was the only major women's camp established by the Nazis. In total, some 132,000 women from all over Europe passed through the camp, including Poles, Russians, Jews, Gypsies, and others. Of that number, over 92,000 women perished. Ravensbrück camp was staffed both by SS men, who served as guards and administrators, and by 150 women, who served as supervisors. These female supervisors were either SS volunteers or women who had taken the job for the good pay and working conditions.
Ravensbrück also housed a training camp for female SS guards who were taught by Dorothea Binz - the sadistically cruel German Nazi officer and supervisor - who instructed her trainees on how to handle the prisoners that they were going to supervise. These prisoners would have to work until they died and the task of their supervisors, such as Johanna Bormann, was to get a maximum amount of work out of them whilst they were still alive. Ravensbrück thus also became a training center or “a school of violence “for about 3,500 female guards who went on to serve either there or at other concentration camps.
At Ravensbrück Bormann worked one year in the kitchen, one year supervising work units and one year on the estate of Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl who was the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps. While working on Pohl's estate she bought a dog that would keep her company for the rest of her career as a concentration camp guard. She loved dogs because they were obedient, and she also demanded total obedience from the prisoners she supervised.
The Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Nazi Germany possessed overwhelming military superiority over Poland. Germany launched the unprovoked attack at dawn on the 1st of September with an advance force consisting of more than 2,000 tanks supported by nearly 900 bombers and over 400 fighter planes. In all, Germany deployed 60 divisions and nearly 1.5 million men in the invasion. The assault on Poland demonstrated Germany’s ability to combine air power and armor in a new kind of mobile warfare. The world adopted a new term to describe Germany’s successful war tactic: Blitzkrieg, or “lightning war.” The last operational Polish unit surrendered on the 6th of October and after this defeat, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided the country in accordance with a secret protocol to the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Very soon the Nazis started opening new concentration camps on the territory of German-occupied Poland and the deadliest of them became Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Johanna Bormann came to the women's section of Auschwitz-Birkenau in October 1942 and her supervisors included Maria Mandl, Margot Dreschel and Irma Grese. Despite being deeply religious and her prior experience looking after the sick, at Auschwitz-Birkenau she turned into a sadistic
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