| Jenny-Wanda Barkmann | |
|---|---|
 Barkmann at the Stutthof trials in 1946 | |
| Born | 30 May 1922 Hamburg, Weimar Republic |
| Died | 4 July 1946(1946-07-04) (aged 24) Biskupia Górka, Gdańsk, Republic of Poland |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Other names | "Beautiful Spectre" |
| Occupation | Guard of the Stutthof concentration camp |
| Political party | Nazi Party |
| Conviction(s) | Crime against humanity |
| Trial | Stutthof trials |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (30 May 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a German overseer in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war.
Biography
Barkmann was born in 1922 and is believed to have spent her childhood in Hamburg.
In 1944, she volunteered with the SS as an Aufseherin, a concentration camp overseer, in the Stutthof SK-III women's subcamp in Poland, where she brutalized prisoners, sometimes to death. She also selected women and children for the gas chambers. She was so merciless that the women prisoners nicknamed her the Beautiful Spectre.
Barkmann fled Stutthof and hid out in Gdańsk, where she was arrested at a train station in May 1945 for her criminal wartime acts. In 1946, she became a defendant in the first Stutthof Trial, where she and other defendants were convicted for their crimes at the camp. After she was found guilty she declared, "Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short."
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Barkmann was publicly executed by short-drop hanging along with 10 other defendants from the trial on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk on 4 July 1946. Former Stutthof prisoners volunteered to conduct the executions. She was 24 years old.
See also
References
- ^ "Modellnek készült, az egyik legrettegettebb náci fegyőr lett a gyönyörű kísértetnek nevezett nőből". www.evamagazin.hu (in Hungarian). 17 November 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
- ^ "Jenny-Wanda Barkmann Biography". Liberation Route Europe. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- Stutthof Concentration Camp — Fold3.com – Historical Military Records. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- Wynn, Stephen (19 April 2020). Holocaust: The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-5267-2822-7.
- "1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp". Executed today. 4 July 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
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