Margarete Rabe
Margarete Rabe (born October 2, 1923 in Neustadt-Glewe ) was a guard in two German concentration camps between November 1944 and April 1945 .
Life
Margarete Rabe applied for a position as a supervisor in 1944. Since November 7, 1944, she was used in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . There she abused female prisoners from the very beginning and was notorious among the prisoners for her brutality.
Rabe was later transferred to the death and selection camp on the grounds of the Uckermark concentration camp , where she was subordinate to Ruth Closius-Neudeck . There she took part in the selection of around 3,000 women and children for the gas chambers . In April 1945 Rabe fled the camp and hid with an uncle in Schwerin .
In the third Ravensbrück Trial of the British occupying forces in Germany, Rabe was sentenced to life imprisonment, which was converted into a 21-year prison term in 1950. On February 26, 1954 (according to other sources on June 16, 1959) Margarete Rabe was released early from prison.
literature
- 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 .
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| SURNAME | Raven, Margarete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German guard in the Ravensbrück and Uckermark concentration camps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadt-Glewe |