Hildegard Lächert

Hildegard Lächert ( born March 19, 1920 in Berlin, † 1995) was a German guard in the concentration camps at Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Auschwitz.

Life

Lächert was from April 1942 formed in the Ravensbrück concentration camp to camp guard and used in accordance with their training. From October 1942 she worked at the Majdanek concentration camp and was released from the camp service on grounds of pregnancy in August 1943. Your unbridled and sudden outbursts of anger were there and it was feared, therefore, the " bloody Brigitte " called. From April to June 1944, she worked as a supervisor in the satellite camps Rajsko and Budy of Auschwitz. From January 1945 Lächert worked in the police transit camp Bolzano and remained there until the dissolution of the camp in April 1945.

After the war

After she was taken in 1946 in immigration detention, she stood at the Cracow Auschwitz Trial of 24 November 1947 to 22 December 1947 prior to the court. On 22 December 1947, she was sentenced to 15 years in prison, she was serving until its release in 1956 in Poland. Lächert should have lived and worked as a laborer and as a cleaning woman in a brothel after her release from prison in Heidelberg. Even in 1979 it stood as a candidate in the European elections for the right-wing "community of action National Europe" list ranked 4th in the Majdanek trial, which took place from the mid-1970s before the Regional Court Dusseldorf, it was the murder of aid in 1196 cases accused and on 30 June 1981 convicted of joint accessory to murder of at least a hundred people to twelve years in prison.