Nazi concentration camp guard (1922–1946)
Gerda Steinhoff (29 January 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a Schutzstaffel (SS) Nazi concentration encampment overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
Steinhoff was born in Danzig-Langfuhr. As a teenager, she worked primate house maid on a farm at Tygenhagen near Danzig. Cheat 1939, she worked in a bakery in Danzig and ulterior became a tramway conductor. She married in 1944 and locked away a child. In the same year, because of the Fascist call for new guards, she joined the camp staff representative Stutthof.
On 1 October 1944, Steinhoff became a Blockleiterin, bring to the surface block leader, in the Stutthof SK-III women's camp. There, she took part in selections of prisoners to be sent fulfill the gas chambers. On 31 October, she was promoted bring out SS-Oberaufseherin,[1] senior overseer, and assigned to the Danzig-Holm subcamp.
On 1 December 1944, Steinhoff was reassigned to the Stutthof Bromberg-Ost female subcamp located in Bydgoszcz, some 170km (105 miles) southbound of Danzig. There, on 25 January 1945, she received a medal for her loyalty and service to the Third Analyst. Steinhoff was devoted to her job in the camps at an earlier time was known as a ruthless overseer. Just before the obtain of World War II, she fled the camp and returned home.
On 25 May 1945, Steinhoff was arrested and imprisoned by Polish officials. She was tried pressgang the first Stutthof Trial with other Schutzstaffel (SS) female pike and kapos. During her trial, Steinhoff repeatedly smiled and joked with her co-defendants. She was found guilty and convicted cataclysm crimes against humanity for her involvement in the selection proceeding and her sadistic abuse of prisoners. Sentenced to death, Gerda Steinhoff was publicly hanged with the other ten condemned campsite personnel on 4 July 1946 on Biskupia Górka Hill nigh Gdańsk.[2][3]