Greta Bösel

Greta Boesel, according to other data also evil, Böseln or evil, ( born May 9, 1908 in Elberfeld, † May 2, 1947 in Hameln, executed ) was a guard at Ravensbrück concentration camp.

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The trained nurse took in 1940 to a position at the company Continental AG in Hanover. Your employer they sent in August 1944, Ravensbrück concentration camp to let them train there as a guard. Between September and December 1944 or January 1945, she worked in this capacity in Ravensbrück. Because infection with typhus she was not operational until mid-March 1945. After returning to work, she noticed that the conditions for the inmates of the concentration camp had deteriorated significantly.

The tasks Boesels to compile the work commandos belonged. They abused women. It is recognized to the following quote: "Let them die [ the prisoners ] if they can not work. "

In the first Hamburg Ravensbrück process Boesel was sentenced to death by hanging.

Boesels lawyer - he also defended Dorothea Binz in court - turned into a plea for clemency, that his client had come only through a forced obligation to Ravensbrück, where she had been employed for only three months in a limited circle task. But a pardon Bösels was rejected.

In prison Hameln the condemned man was hanged on May 2, 1947 in the morning at 9:55 clock by Albert Pierrepoint.