Elisabeth Marshal

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Elisabeth Marschall (born May 27, 1886 in Meiningen , † May 2, 1947 in Hameln ) was head nurse in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

Elisabeth Marschall, a trained nurse and active in her profession since 1909, joined the NSDAP in 1931 . Before she was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in April 1943 , she worked as a head nurse at a hospital of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring near Braunschweig. After the end of the war, she stated in court that she had given food to two French prisoners of war who were also working in this hospital in mid-1942. In addition, she spoke to the prisoners in French, which she mastered in 1914 due to a stay abroad in Lausanne . She was then denounced and interrogated by the Gestapo and accused of withholding food from the German people.

On April 13, 1943, Marschall became head nurse in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp and remained so until the camp was evacuated in April 1945. Marshal, who refused to provide assistance to sick and pregnant women prisoners, was tried in Hamburg's " Curiohaus " before a British military tribunal in Ravensbrück after the war ended - Trial charged with ill-treatment of Allied nationals. Her judgment of February 3, 1947 was " death by hanging ".

The sentence was confirmed on March 31, 1947 and carried out on May 2, 1947 in the morning at 9.31 a.m. in the Hameln prison .

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SURNAME Marshal, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head nurse in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1947
Place of death Hamelin