Carmen Mory
Carmen Maria Mory (born July 2, 1906 in Bern , Switzerland ; † April 9, 1947 in Hamburg , Germany ) was a Swiss Gestapo agent. During the Second World War she was a prisoner and block elder in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .
Life
Carmen Mory was born in Bern in 1906 and grew up in Adelboden . Her father was a doctor, her mother was Filipino and died under mysterious circumstances when Carmen was four years old. Mory claims to have lived in Switzerland, France, England and the Netherlands. From 1924 she toured European countries.
She took up singing and music studies in Munich in 1928, which she broke off in 1932. She had to give up her original career aspiration as a singer after an almond operation . Then she went to Berlin to work as a journalist . She felt drawn to the glamor and power of the National Socialists and in 1934 became an agent of the Gestapo , for whom she spied on German emigrants in Paris, among other places .
She was arrested in Paris in November 1938 and sentenced to death by the French for espionage in April 1940 , but pardoned to prison by the French President on June 6, 1940. During the German invasion, she managed to escape back to the German Reich. There she was again working for the Gestapo, but after a while she was arrested on the charge that she was a double agent and in February 1941 was sent to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp .
In Ravensbrück she was promoted to block elder and was employed as a prisoner nurse in block 10 ( tuberculosis patients and confused women). The testimonies about their behavior as block elders are contradicting. On the one hand she was called the “most feared woman in Ravensbrück”, on the other hand she is said to have used her influence to ease the situation of the prisoners. She was at times close friends with Anne Spoerry , who was also a prisoner . In Ravensbruck they should for the members of the camp Gestapo Ludwig Ramdohr informers have done.
After the war, Mory was accused by former inmates of participating in selections and of having himself murdered in 60 cases. In the first Hamburg Ravensbrück Trial , she was sentenced to death on February 3, 1947. She prevented the execution by suicide by cutting open both arteries with a razor blade.
literature
- Marco Jorio: Mory, Carmen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Caterina Abbati: Me, Carmen Mory. The life of a Bern doctor's daughter and Gestapo agent (1906–1947) . Chronos, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-905313-03-0 .
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Lukas Hartmann : woman in fur. Life and death of Carmen Mory . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-312-00250-8 .
- as paperback: S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14709-3 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Irina Nowak: "Prosecution is not expedient at the moment ..." Gestapo agent Carmen Mory between the concentration camp and the judicial prison. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , vol. 59 (2011), no. 4, pp. 312–332.
- Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002 (dissertation TU Berlin), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-4303 , doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-528 .
Movie
- The angel of death from Adelboden . 4th episode of the DOK series Criminal Cases - When Women Kill . Director: Michael Hegglin. First broadcast: SF 1 , July 28, 2008
- Carmen Mory: Hands off that woman . Director: Michael Hegglin. SF 1 , 2000
Web links
- Literature by and about Carmen Mory in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ravensbrücker Mory deeds . In: Der Spiegel , issue 4/1947 from January 25, 1947, p. 4.
- Eleven death sentences . In: Der Spiegel , edition 6/1947 of February 8, 1947, p. 3.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A legendary flying doctors dark secret - report on Mory's relationship with Spoerry in the Ravensbrück concentration camp in the Financial Times, engl.
- ↑ Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary for the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 417.
- ^ Escape to death in: Der Spiegel 16/1947
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mory, Carmen |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mory, Carmen Maria (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Gestapo agent, block elder in the Ravensbrück concentration camp |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Adelboden , Switzerland |
DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1947 |
PLACE OF DEATH | Hamburg , Germany |