The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Vera Salvequart - The EVIL Nurse Of Ravensbruck

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During the Second World War, the Nazis used a huge network of concentration camps to inflict much horror and suffering onto prisoners. Huge camps such as Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen and Dachau were set up to carry out the evils of the Holocaust, and after World War 2 a number of war crimes trials took place to bring the perpetrators to justice. Scores of former SS guards and members were placed on trial, and one of these was Vera Salvequart, however her story was incredibly interesting.
Initially Vera Salvequart was imprisoned herself inside of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for having a banned relationship, but she then became a nurse inside of the camp hospital due to staff shortages. Whilst working as a nurse, she murdered dozens of prisoners using poison injections and poison powder. She did this purely as she wanted to save time and could not be bothered to walk prisoners to the gas chambers where they would be killed anyway.
When she was placed on trial, she tried to maintain her innocence and even appealed to the fact she was technically a prisoner when she was killing others. However the court saw through this, and she was sentenced to death. She was executed at Hamelin Prison by Albert Pierrepoint, however the story of Vera Salvequart is a strange one. She remains one of a very few people who were imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps, but after the war was executed for her role in the Holocaust.
So join us today as we look at, 'The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Vera Salvequart - The EVIL Nurse Of Ravensbruck.'
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[@robertevans8010]

This is a very difficult case, there were Prisoners at the end of the war who thought that her Sentence was not Justified, her killing by Lethal injection was in away, better than being gassed, she was in a position to do that, this happened in Auschwitz as well where people were given lethal injections rather than being sent to the gas Chambers or being Burnt Alive with Flame Throwers or in Fire pits. I do know that She had been Brutally beaten by the SS, she certainly was No Jew hater or Nazi, but circumstances threw her into the cauldron of the Camp Regimes, it was also thought that other Ravensbruck Guards were trying to save their own skins by giving evidence against her, there may be some Truth about her Jewish friends being spies, certainly one was a Scientist, this is another case where even if you are not Evil you became Evil through the Camp system, we will never know the real truth!

[@blackie75]

Yes, there are certainly a lot of grey areas in many of the subsequent executions after the war. One of them being that many of the guards were poor and took the positions because the money was many times what they could earn elsewhere and that much of the brutality that they displayed was not only expected, but trained as a requirement of the job. There are stories of female guards being whipped by the SS for being nice to prisoners and being chastised for not being brutal enough. So as much as people probably don't want to hear it, a lot the guards were young or peasant people who were groomed to be monsters and rewarded for their behaviour, because the men who ran everything were very smart, they knew which demographics would be the most impressionable.

[@wildnfrantic1015]

I've learnt so much from your channel - thanks very much for the work you do and the history you show us

[@MultiMoo20]

Thank you so much UP!! Absolutely love this channel ❤️

[@soumyajitsingha9614]

I feel bad for Vera for being arrested in such young age just for having relations with jews but this shows she was first a rather nice and open minded person but nazi totally mentally exploited and forced her to turn into evil through propaganda its a sad one

[@abhia1311]

Today's woke crowd in the West are the same phenomenon as the Nazis did to their supporters. Dehumanising everybody else who don't agree with their stupid woke world view.. hence they are telling things like those who don't take vaccines should be locked in, denied healthcare , denied rations, denied jobs etc.. They are doing with other things too. Whatever their liberal crowd Fuhrers political agenda is, if you don't agree, the woke supporters are doing the ground work of dehumanising you.. 1925-1933 German society experienced exactly that phenomenon of ground works for future Holocaust where good people just had to accept what came to them.

[@edwardrossman9448]

In her case it may have been kill or be killed.

[@robbabcock_]

@@abhia1311 Unlike the fascists on the right, "getting cancelled" just means they say mean things about you. A lot of snowflakes like you seem to think that's the same as being murdered because you're weakminded.

[@haroldajenkins7487]

Truth

[@MarriedToTheKGB]

They only hung a handful 24 after the trials when it should have been tens of thousands. Almost all of them got away with it except for a token 24

[@MS46Z]

These executions sent a message to others. Your videos are a reminder.

[@georgiaholloway2375]

Just as these executions sent a message, we need certain politicians to face justice today to send a clear message.

[@mass.1710]

Ur a 100% correct! These were used as messages to the rest of the evil people out there. These kinda disgusting things will not b tolerated by the rest of the world!

[@Halbi1987]

Good and innocent people were also executed. Stauffenberg got executed and everybody who opposed the Nazis. What exactly is the message ?

[@leeholmes9962]

It makes me sick to my stomach to know people like this were doing this to people what horrible scumbags they were

[@BrianHayter-zl2uc]

Love these doco,s keep em coming. Great stuff👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️

[@jensenwilliam5434]

Thank you!!

[@blatherskite3009]

Something doesn't ring quite right about this case - and that's not just me trying to find excuses because it's a woman; I'm usually the first to moan about how often women escape the gallows compared to men! The part that really jumped out at me was the way the male prisoners gave her the disguise and hid her among themselves disguised as a male prisoner until the end of the war. That really doesn't sound like something prisoners would agree to do for someone who had a reputation as a monster. Records show that gossip and rumour were rife in the camp, so it's doubtful the men would've been ignorant of her reputation as a monster if indeed she had such a reputation. If anything, she seems to have been liked and trusted by the male and female prisoners. Testimony shows that she was only able to give the lethal shots to the prisoners because they trusted her. And then you have her record of being jailed twice for having Jewish boyfriends, and then jailed a third time for helping 5 imprisoned officers to escape. Again, this really doesn't sound like a monster. But the really interesting part is that what ultimately signed her death warrant was testimony that she had given lethal injections to people who were destined for the gas chambers. This testimony came from a female former inmate that Salvequart had called in her own defence. Basically the testimony backfired and went against Salvequart, but it seems clear that she had called this witness - knowing she had told the witness about the injections - because she thought the former inmate's testimony would help her rather than damn her. This seems to support what other commenters are suggesting, i.e. that it may have been "mercy killings" of the already-condemned rather than straight-up murder.

[@skrayraja]

Yes. I also feel the same way

[@JohnJones-ct9pr]

Thank you for writing that. My sentiments exactly. I am not against the hanging of the people like Irma Greese who were justly convicted with tons of evidence against them. But the evidence against Vera Salvequart was really paper thin. And even that paper has more holes in it than paper. This is the ONE ( and only that i have ever comes across ) injustice of the war crimes trails. Someone wanted her dead. And so she was killed.

[@markjamison9677]

Yes well said I myself know of ex nazi lived a productive life in South America never to be charged and where guilty of a lot of war crimes I’m thinking of two such people now wealthy families in Bolivia .

[@redtobertshateshandles]

@@markjamison9677 there are millions of people of mostly German and Italian descent who are pro Nazi today. Many English people too.

[@jonathannixon8652]

I have heard that many prisoners would ask for lethal medicine so yes if anything she should have had a separate trial outside of the mass trials and given a 5- 10 years of house arrest

[@ralphe5842]

I do find it interesting yes she probably did deserve punishment but so many men who were always evil got off scot free being in such a place can make anyone break down to the lowest level of humanity but the ones that created it are much more evil and when you look at the bios so many died of old age

[@43sunray]

Great research and presentation.

[@Eric-qk3bk]

How Evil ? "Towards the end of the trial, she claimed that she took a young prisoner home (to feed him) and that she COULDN'T be sentenced to the gas chamber, for fear of the poor child going hungry." That Evil.

[@Johnnycdrums]

I don’t know about this one.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Euthanasia and murder are pretty close. If she saved prisoners from a death by neglect or untreated cancer etc etc she was doing the right thing.

[@jchew0267]

Here I am, looking at this video clip on the Nazi's horror during the Nuremberg Trials of World War II. It is unbelievable but true, that man is capable of such horrific evil on fellow man. O Lord, forgive us for these transgressions.

[@derekstocker6661]

I actually wonder how these people took these trials seriously with the judges wearing ridiculous wigs and at the same time condemning people to death, strange image for justice. Thanks for this, very interesting as always.

[@stevefox8605]

Pretty shocking this one! Thank you, subbed to your new channel 👍🏻👍🏻

[@jamesstorey2476]

Absolutely justified. The distressing fact of the matter is, not all Nazi war criminals were found and prosecuted.

[@brunokirchensittenbach9294]

...Most of them were shipped to Central and South America to " Improve Human Rights and Freedoms in Chile, Argentina Paraguay Bolivia Guatemala, Brazil, under the CIA payroll like " Klaus Barbie, Eduard Roschmann, Walther Rauff, Erich Priebke, Gleim, to mention just few " Freedom Fighters" according to the US Government " Lexicon". ..

[@sobbyhasselhoff]

They're only war crimes if you lose the war.

[@tomflendodo7297]

Very few were !!! A Lot of German War Criminals escaped to South America Helped out by the " Roman Catholic Church " !! The so called " Monastery or Rat 🐀 Line " Encouraged by Pope Pius Xll !! HITLER'S Pope !!!!!!

[@brunokirchensittenbach9294]

@@sobbyhasselhoff ...Who financed Hitler y his Nazi Party during the early 20's until 1933 and helped with it's " Rearmament" guess who???...

[@sobbyhasselhoff]

@@brunokirchensittenbach9294 what does that have to do with my statement?

[@pagey1950]

Very interesting and thorough research.

[@WillyEckaslike]

hahahaha...really...anyone with a brain can see that this is all lies from J inmates who obviously didnt like her for some reason

[@HZ-qc2qu]

I watch this channel because history has a tendency to repeat itself. I’m seeing a startling amount of parallels between today’s America and yesterday’s Germany.

[@guitarjunkie2065]

Churchill wrote a 6-volume history of the war. Volume I is mostly prewar, as he's laying out its causes - which, in fact, really begin with the Armistice of 1918. Anyway I just coincidentally happened to be reading that during the campaign in 2016. Pretty remarkable. I'd highly recommend it given what you've just said here.

[@HZ-qc2qu]

@@guitarjunkie2065 thank you I’ll definitely check that out

[@ecuadorexpat8558]

No earthly punishment was Justice for the crimes these devils committed..They are now facing the wrath of the living God

[@ronaldfinkelstein6335]

Interesting, that this transformation into murderous monster happened in the span of only 5 months[December 1944- April, 1945]

[@felicitypasquill9194]

It supposedly only took "The Blond Beast" of Bergen Nelson, Irma Geese, a matter of days to go from apologising to a prisoner for accidentally stepping In front of her, to exercising her sadistic pleasures on a daily basis.

[@reneedennis2011]

Isn't the character in The Reader based on her?

[@felicitypasquill9194]

I can't recall her name off hand, but I'm pretty sure the guard the movie is based upon went on to die an old lady, whereas Grease was only about 21 or 22 when she was hanged

[@felicitypasquill9194]

Sorry for spelling errors but my dam pH has taken on a mind of its own

[@ElleCee62978]

@@reneedennis2011 I think she’s a combination of Ilse Koch and Herta Bothe. Both did jail time and were released. Ilse later killed herself when she went to jail again.

[@blondie944]

You mean Bergen Belsen?

[@iangarner8857]

FFS she was a prisoner herself in these awful camps yet she helped the camp administration commit these crimes.

[@Alan_GA]

At times victims become the worst perpetrators of crimes.

[@kennethpontin2506]

I could live a thousand years and never understand the depravities of man and it's reasoning to do such a barbaric act causing so much death on a so much scale. This is not war but hell on innocent people. It does not matter wether it was Jewish, Political, soldiers or other wise, it matters that they are people who had a right to thier own views or religion. I can never forget this carnage of human lives thinking that Nazi ideas were for the best to them. Those who escaped these crimes, I doubt have a conciounce but would have and will have a judgement one day when they pass. God love all the innocent lives lost and lest we shall ever remember them and their families who live today. KLP Swindon UK

[@joemacinnis1972]

You reap what you sow

[@anthonyparisella7224]

I've always thought salvequart and elisabeth becker were unlucky to cop the death penalty. There were many far more deserving monsters at these concentration camps who got away either scotfree or very lightly.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Interesting and worthwhile video.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks!

[@AmberPearcy]

This was definitely an interesting one to me for some reason. After watching this I want to find out more about this lady. Not saying I disagree with your title, just that I want to know more. Thank you, as always!

[@TheUntoldPast]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lisilucyinski9455]

Yep. Sounds like there's more to this story. Like maybe she thought it was kinder to put them out of their misery?

[@AmberPearcy]

@@lisilucyinski9455 exactly! I wanted to say that but I know that it’s still murder so I couldn’t find the right words. Thank you.

[@claudiarice9008]

This does seem like a case which could be argued from different viewpoints.

[@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.]

these trials were a show. nothing less, a miserable show

[@nilnil8411]

This clearly sounds like a sham trial, she was clearly trusted by the inmates as she saved several of their lives risking her own, she was clearly a victim here.

[@tonyantoniou9271]

I would have shown some clemency towards her after all her victims would have been gassed in any case. Also she did not have a choice in being at the camp. Not that I condone her actions.

[@gordonbryson7475]

Funny you never hear of the psychiatrist s being taken to justice just there nurse s etc

[@hazeldmello5800]

May Almighty God grant Eternal Rest to the unfortunate victims of those dreadful days. May Almighty God give justice to the evil-doers.

[@cainmathewson1857]

You, unknown 5's, and Mark Felton need to get together take over the history channel coup d'etat style ! I'm tired of Ancient Aliens and Government Conspiracies. It's like they think we're an eighth grade classroom, just bored as can be of real history and need it 'spiced up' to keep our attention. Thank God these KZbin channels exist. Otherwise I don't know how id get my history fix.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks mate! :)

[@cainmathewson1857]

@PennyCandy It's a farce of what it used to be. The only time I tune in is when they do a rerun of WW2 in colour

[@jazzyb4656]

The channels you mentioned are great! Some other channels I would recommend are:- World War Two, Today I Found Out, Biographics and Geographics. The last three channels are all part of the same network on KZbin.

[@cainmathewson1857]

@@jazzyb4656 I actually just discovered 'Today I Found Out' the other day! I'm hooked on it. If the other two you mentioned are part of the same network I'll have to give them a look. Thanks for the advice on that!

[@ronaldfinkelstein6335]

@@jazzyb4656 The Simon Whisler Network...he also has Brain Blaze, Side Projects, Megaprojects...and he narrates all of them!

[@markchevalier3572]

Justice served. What comes around goes around.

[@Glory_inthe_3rd77]

I'm telling you man anytime you put a insecure person in a position of power it's going to go bad I have seen it too many times I can almost guarantee you that it will always be like that with a insecure power-hungry person no matter how significant or insignificant The Authority is they are going to be on the negative side

[@tonymcdonnly6492]

Interesting case of prisoner who dated Jewish men would become a victimizer herself. I never knew about this case. Keep bringing more of this content.

[@felicitypasquill9194]

There's actually a few of them, Maria Mandel for example is another one, she had been engaged to a Jew before the war.

[@tonymcdonnly6492]

@@felicitypasquill9194 Wow! Maria Mandl was one of the worst female overseers at Auschwitz. She was hanged for her crimes and rightfully so. To think of all the good she could have done to ease the prisoner's suffering having been involved with a Jewish man. Thanks for sharing this unknown fact.

[@felicitypasquill9194]

Welcome!

[@tonymcdonnly6492]

@@felicitypasquill9194 👍

[@felicitypasquill9194]

Back at cha

[@jocelynorrego1579]

E visto mucho de tus videos, lastima que no estén en español, algunos tiene subtitulos excelente trabajo

[@donhancock332]

Look at that Woman! Fur coat no less!

[@baddoopey]

They where very common in Europe till the eighties. (I mean the fur, not the woman)

[@bernirmurray4965]

Think this may have been a case of survival on her part , no one really knows how they would have reacted to the horrors there , a really interesting case this given she was once a " rebel " 🤔

[@DrFrankensteam]

Anyone know what the big X painted on the jackets at about 4:30 means?

[@philstothard8333]

Aiming mark ?

[@pickle_soup160]

I love this series. These murderers carried themselves with such hubris. They saw lives of people as trivial pleasures at their disposal. They murdered millions of my people. They called us sub-humans. Yet at the end, it was my granduncle who were there to seal Berlin from German reinforcements. Nothing pleases me more than see this filth pay for their crimes .

[@davidhat2446]

Pickle Palestinians might have a different opinion of you and your race......

[@colinbeckles2811]

She is proof that with some people absolute power corrupts absolutely

[@oceanhome2023]

I have a hard time thinking that this case is completely investigated and it appears that she was turned evil by the prisons she was put in . This has to be the most questionable execution

[@TheMrBennito]

Yes

[@bobknob5819]

Calling her a nurse is a stretch.

[@MrLeo2A6]

Gotta say I'm really hating the double ads now

[@vleldaddio210]

Pay for U Tube PREMIUM THEN NO ADS CHEAPSKATE WHINER !! COVFEFE

[@sarahjames927]

When you live long enough to become a monster … sigh. A victim who became a villain.

[@obsidiandwarf]

Dear TUP, would it be possible to superimpose an arrow over the head of the person we are supposed to be looking at? In some cases I can guess because, having watched many of your vids, I recognise the surrounding people. In some cases though, it is more difficult.

[@TheUntoldPast]

No problem, will try to identify them a little better :)

[@obsidiandwarf]

@@TheUntoldPast Thanks, matey!

[@berenlevia8486]

Perriepoint when in the 'Zone' , didn't waste time pulling that lever ; they barely had time to take the next breath after having the hood put over their head before 'the drop'.

[@johncitizen3927]

Sad, less than 5%, were punished....

[@davebarrowcliffe1289]

So did she get a fair trial or what? Were those who testified against her credible witnesses? Really?

[@jaybee9269]

I have to wonder if Pierpoint ever made small talk with the condemned: “And how are you this lovely afternoon? Dreadful sultry weather we’re having…”

[@tiffanybiscuit7587]

I read his autobiography. The only words he spoke to the condemned were 'Follow me ' in the prison cell, as he led them to the gallows. and ten seconds later they were dead. I doubt he even said anything to the war criminals he executed as they were bought to the gallows by guards .

[@jaybee9269]

@@tiffanybiscuit7587 >> Ah, thanks. I’d no idea he’d even had an autobiography!

[@bobarmstrong4403]

@@jaybee9269 HE did write his auto biography, and it was eventually made into a film starring Timothy Spall. His usual words were 'Follow me' or for someone he had a degree of sympathy for 'Come on, you are going to be OK' then it was all over in seconds. The absolute professional.

[@grettagirl2884]

You'd have thought she would have had some empathy for those who were imprisoned there as her boyfriend was Jewish ✡ 🤔...

[@muskokamike127]

More than one....which leads me to question: was her method of giving them a lethal dose of a sedative her way of preventing them the anguish of dying by poison gas? This case is quite a bit different than the others where she was literally being forced to be a part of it. See, if her intention was to spare them the agony of a gas death, and was hung for it, then even if a guard helped prisoners escape during the winter, the guard could be hung because they would most likely die of exposure since they didn't have proper clothes. I'd like to learn more about this case.

[@grettagirl2884]

@@muskokamike127 could have been, but according to the story, she seemed to relish in her cruel treatment of the other prisoners.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

@@grettagirl2884 gossip.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

@@muskokamike127 image being shot with a pistol, thrown in a icy cold mass grave and taking a few days to die. Inject me.

[@AspieGirlArianaHale]

I’ve seen so many documentaries & read so many stories about the death camps & it’s truly horrific the things that have happened there. Although I don’t personally know how awful it would’ve been to be imprisoned there, I feel like I would’ve rather died than be made to help them kill innocent people. I suppose that’s easy to say, but the idea of being responsible for someone’s death is just too horrible to think about... 😥💔💭

[@brunokirchensittenbach9294]

... Just in Central and South America ( Chile, Argentina Paraguay Brazil Guatemala, Bolivia) Concentration Camps were running by those Governments during the 70's 80s-thanks to the US interventions and Regime change by " Henry Kissinger during the early 70's under the Nixon- Ford Administration" along Latin America...

[@VictorLepanto]

@@brunokirchensittenbach9294 You're an idiot & a leftist equivocator. The Communists trying to take over South America then were part of the worst mass murderers in history. Those South American Communists were colluding w/ the Soviet Union to subjugate those nations to the evil Soviet Empire. Your Soviet Empire began WWII as Adolf Hitler's one & only ally when they invaded Poland together, murdering many 10s of thousands of Poles & especially Jews TOGETHER. AS ALLIES. You beloved South American Communists would have set up Soviet style GULAGs, just as Mao did w/ HIS Lao Gai concentration camps & Castro did on his Isle of Pines. I'm calling BS on your pathetic attempt @ leftist propaganda.

[@zenodotusofathens2122]

Here's another book for you to read: "Soldiers and Slaves" by Roger Cohen It tells of the little known story of American Jewish soldiers [my uncle was one] captured and sent to POW camps. The SS came to these POW camps and looked for the Jews who they sent to death camps.

[@christbdx]

@@zenodotusofathens2122 Never heard of this episode. Where were these POW's camp located ? I would suppose your uncle died in all this ?

[@zenodotusofathens2122]

@@christbdx To further clarify the comment I just wrote... Stalag 9B was a POW camp near Frankfurt...it was not a death camp. Most POWs survived as it was not the aim of the Nazis to murder them... at least not the Americans and British. My uncle was removed from Stalag 9B and sent to Berga which was a death camp. Yes my uncle was murdered on April 23, 1945. He was 21 years old.

[@blackvulcan100]

Interesting but a lot of film clips of nothing to do with Vera Salvequart or Ravensbruck.

[@peterpan7201]

When you Start a fight you have to win.

[@mrmarcus4123]

Imagine if that was you, what would you have done to survive???

[@billymule961]

This is peculiar. Was she administering a peaceful death to those people who were destined to the gas chamber, or to those who were suffering through a slow painful death from a disease? More information is needed.

[@muskokamike127]

I thought the same thing......

[@WillyEckaslike]

u dont have to be einstein to see what a load of Dueish baloney the testimony against her was....she was probably not well liked in the camp by some so was the perfect candidate to become part of the retribution by the allies to justify to the allied mothers why their children had died in a futile war that was Germanee v Russia and nothing to do with the west

[@mongo2022]

Sad nostalgic Nazi...

[@billymule961]

@@mongo2022 Sorry you're so sad Jorge, but the Nazis had to be destroyed. You need to examine your values.

[@mongo2022]

@@billymule961 "the Nazis had to be destroyed". That´s exactly what I believe...

[@allenhonaker4107]

It's almost 2022. I wonder if the Mossad is still looking or have finally acknowledged the fact that they couldn't get them all

[@madgary5827]

She was a nurse? I like this video

[@felicitypasquill9194]

Does anybody know why concentration camps are called concentration camps? I'm particularly interested in why the word "concentration". Does it have a different meaning in German prehaps? I tried googling it but to no avail.

[@wildnfrantic1015]

The only thing I can think of is that all the 'enemies of the state' were gathered and placed in a single area so concentrated together so the guards could concentrate on them easily? Just a wild guess but I'd like to know the answer too

[@PrinceKCKitchen]

Can you please provide rights to use these videos and photos, i want to use in my channel

[@ozdavemcgee2079]

I suspect many ppl did similar ie kapos just werent prosecuted or made it to the end of the war. Too many stories of kapos beating prisoners to death.

[@ritadokus2874]

We will see Nuremberg 2 soon from the evil in Washington

[@jimmieallen5096]

They had it coming to them!!

[@johnhanson5943]

Difficult case. Not sure. Still considering this one.

[@nicholasb5901]

Something tells me that every single one of those people who were tried and ended up dead, I don't know if that's a fact or not but if you were there you're probably going to die.

[@RobertJonesWightpaint]

Slightly less use of the word "rather" would be a good idea....

[@thomaskeil1437]

Lots of small fish got away because the target was bigger fish. Plenty of the small fish did tremendous damage and death to innocent lives.

[@mfabanwy]

Life in prison should have been appropriate in her case not the death penalty. She was coarsed to do what she did. She was not a willing/enthusiastic participant in the killings 🌿.

[@homefront3162]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️from 🇺🇸

[@suet.r.4815]

I understand the absolutely righteous anger of victims in all of this, as well as the military men who had to walk into the aftermath of those horrible camps... I understand the search for punishment and the ache for retribution against all who caused pain. But her poison powders and injections were preferable death to the gas chamber. The assertion that she was too lazy to take prisoners to the gas chamber sounds over-dramatic to me. Death in the gas chamber was excruciating. - Children lasted longer in gassing because they were closer to the floor and had fresh air longer... such would have been the same of an infirm person laid on the floor. She spared those patients that horror, giving them the prescribed death in a stretcher or bed without the screams of the dying all around. I think prison for life should have been enough.

[@nealhurwitz]

TY

[@thunderK5]

She was one of those people who, finding herself in Hell on Earth, decided to act like a demon.

[@nomdeplume7537]

I'm paused at 6:39 ... Here's my conundrum First she started out as a prisoner due to her relationship with Jewish boy friends, as well as helping officers held prisoners escape. Those are not the actiona of an ideological antisemite, or a NAZI Then, due to staffing shortages and her background, she is selected to work as a nurse, doing what she has to do to survive, just like any other Jewish prisoner that were pressed into service by their captors. So she was attempting to save her own life. Similar to a prisoner who would rat out another to curry favor, or gain something else, food, a "bed" anything, that humans will do when your humanity is stripped away. Many Jewish prisoners were tasked with working as guards as Kapos, others as SonderKommando. Eventually the sadistic ways of the Germans, would start to rub off onto those prisoners, as a case of Stockholm Syndrome. Fight or flight instincts "I need to do anything and everything I can, to show them I'm useful, otherwise I'm next' watched like hawks, every action under a microscope. Ask yourself this. You're about to be sent to the gas chamber, you ARE going to die. The "shower" ruse doesn't work anymore, all of the prisoners know the reality. That walk to the GC, is one hell of a long agonizing, terrifying ordeal. Filled with fear, panic and the agonizing knowledge your life is about to end. Some will vomit, or piss and shit themselves, while begging for their lives. There is nothing taht will change the inevitable. On the other hand, your in an infirmary, and there's a nurse who tells you you're going on a trip, and gives you a powder to drink, under a false pretext. The fear this will induce if any, is nowhere near the torturous psychological terror that walk would induce.. You're not petrified or pissing and shitting yourself. Then as it kicks in, you get sleepy, then fall asleep, never to wake up. She didn't give them anything that would cause them distress. Honestly, which way would you choose? I know which I would. Was it compassion that was confused with sadistic barbarism? Her way was a much easier way to be killed. Let's say she did become more like the Germans after starting to work for the camp. There's now evidence that she wasn't able to control that spiral. The Stanford Prison experiment in '70s demonstrates exactly how the sadistic side of human nature. As college student volunteers, some playing prisoners others playing guards. It turned those acting as guards, they began to torture the others acting as prisoners. So unless anything pops up later in video, I may amend my comment. As for now, I'm not convinced she should have been executed. Far from it.

[@halibut1249]

Were most guards helpful and considerate, or at least not harmful toward the inmates? Did Nazi overseers punish them for that? I'm just wondering if any guards escaped prosecution after the war? Seems most of them did, because as guards they didn't commit crimes.

[@janee7995]

Vera, thank you for your service.

[@123animit]

This one was interesting, havent heard it before. Most of the stories about camp guards you hear and two sentences in, you say, ok, I hope he/she got justice and was hanged for their evil ways. But this was the first one that gave me a pause. From what I hear she was not a Jew hater or even a Nazi. She was a prisoner herself and the other prisoners didnt seem to hate or fear her as much as the other brutal guards, and even her lethal injections sounded like mercy killings. Not saying she didnt deserve some form of punishment, but we have all heard much worse stories of people who got off with much less or almost no retribution.

[@Allyourbase1990]

Unlike most of the other women , she didn’t seem like she had much of a choice . She probably got PTSD , then started acting the way she did .definitely not excusing her , she was definitely evil

[@abusubhi311]

Can you do one on Palestine. Occupation of Palestine by the British and now the Israeli's? Thank you

[@valmid5069]

*Real life Nurse Rachet*

[@rubengutierrez5102]

This could easily happen again!

[@jugsmasterson3313]

Lol no it can't

[@rubengutierrez5102]

@@jugsmasterson3313 Yes, it can! It's happening in Western China right now! Communist Chinese have Muslims locked up in concentration camps! What are you talking about?

[@khelom]

Killing anyone can never be justified.

[@grantross2609]

gotta feel a bit for vera caught up in circumstances in which she likely had next to no control....... ps. do those british female guards look real scary or what !

[@lwalker8785]

She was a victim first and a villain second. You should change the title.

[@kevinrichards9898]

Sh may have thought that if I do not kill I may be killed

[@williesnyder2899]

There are a lot of bad nurses, but THIS ONE!!!!

[@jaybee9269]

Have to be that guy and say it’s “barbed” wire, not “barb.” Sorry; great episode!

[@necroslair]

Pierrepointe was *way* to merciful to these people.

[@deneshbhaskar3944]

Vera got it. I'm happy

[@martinmarsola6477]

👍🇺🇸

[@kimmccabe1422]

Not justified at all! A fascist doctor leaning over her shoulder. Imagine having no choice...omg she did the lil she cld do. Remember, all the other horrible nazi women asked for the job.. not her.. she was also a prisont. In another time, I bet she'd be a philanthropist! This one is a sad hanging!

[@garymunro7561]

I thought that Belsen didn't have any gas chambers?

[@leebowens2631]

Well I think she was between a rock and a hard place .

[@violette4841]

She liked the boys, not so much the girls. And she always seemed to be on the wrong side of the law.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

There is not one thing about Nat. socialism that is not either a lie or just criminal.

[@alexbowman7582]

My uncle Sammy as a teenage soldier in the HLI worked as a guard in a concentration camp, don’t know which one but presumably in western Germany, but he said they couldn’t release the inmates immediately because half of them were criminals and they were all suffering from diseases.

[@lunartears6761]

It is interesting that they executed her, but we let Japan get away with a sh*t ton of war crimes. Nanking was only a portion of what the imperial army did, and we the Americans payed a known leader of a chemical bio-weopon division for the results of his reasearch, and also looked the other away for how he came upon those findings. I’m not defending Vera, as she deserved to to die if she did indeed take creative liberties in killing other prisoners, it’s just amazing what the allies picked and chose to prosecute after WWII.😔

[@guitarjunkie2065]

And we wonder why the Chinese have hated us ever since. We were on the same side, and were hailed as heroes and saviors by the Chinese just as we were by the French, etc. And then...

[@isthereanybodyoutthere9397]

Good riddance to bad blood.

[@williammcdorman6426]

She was a victim

[@pamreynolds6812]

Interesting so many women were executed but so many men got away with nothing