Execution of Dorothea Binz - Extremely Brutal Nazi Guard at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Dorothea Binz, the second daughter of a forest worker, was born on the 16th of March 1920 in Dusterlake, a town near Ravensbrück, then part of the Weimar Republic which was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933.
In August 1939, when Dorothea Binz was only 19 years old, allegedly in order to avoid being forced to work in a factory, she applied for a position as kitchen manager in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. However, since this position had already been taken, she was hired as a guard.
In November Binz was already guarding ten female prisoners who were sawing and driving wood. Until May 1940, she also supervised prisoners carrying coke, unloading bricks, driving rubble, unloading straw sacks, cleaning the floor, working in construction management, gardening and personnel development. In August or September 1940, she was promoted to deputy head of the cell block. In this so called “bunker” the prisoners who violated the camp regulations were punished and often tortured to death. Binz together with her superior Maria Mandl, was responsible for carrying out the caning there.
In April 1941 Binz joined the Nazi Party. When Mandl was promoted to Oberaufseherin – a chief senior overseer - in April 1942, Binz became head of the cell block.
In addition, Binz assisted Mandl in selecting women for human experiments.
In July 1943, Binz was unofficially promoted to Deputy Chief Overseeer. The promotion was made official in February 1944. As a member of the command staff between 1943 and 1945, she directed training and assigned duties to over 100 female guards at one time. Binz trained some of the cruelest female guards in the Nazi concentration camp system such as Irma Grese.
She used indoctrination techniques to brainwash the new recruits and turned them into ruthless psychopaths like her.
Also thanks to Dorothea Binz, Ravensbrück become 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, Binz’ behavior towards female prisoners became increasingly sadistic. She targeted the weakest and most fearful inmates and without any reason, she would beat, slap, kick, shoot, whip, or stomp and abuse the women.
The Holocaust survivors later testified that she aroused such terror that when she appeared at roll call, “silence fell”.
She ordered the female inmates to stand at roll calls for hours and sometimes she either set a dog on them or would kick the women to death without any sign of mercy. During interrogations she slapped the prisoners and participated in almost all executions.
Binz also made sure that the prisoners suffered from hunger and cold, and that the female SS guards that she supervised, treated the prisoners with similar brutality.
On one occasion, Binz observed a woman in a work detail who, she felt, was not working hard enough. She walked over to the woman, knocked her down to the ground, and then took a pickaxe and proceeded to chop the prisoner with it until the lifeless body was little more than a bloody lump. Once she finished, Binz cleaned her shiny boots with the dry portion of the corpses’ skirt, then mounted her bicycle and leisurely peddled her way back to Ravensbrück, all as if nothing had happened.
In 1944, when gas chambers were built in Ravensbrück, she made numerous selections among the prisoners. Those who could no longer work, were murdered.
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.
When the camp was liberated by the Red Army on the 30th of April 1945, there were about 3,500 sick women, men and children in the camp.
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