Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann | |
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 Barkmann at the Stutthof trials in 1946 | |
| Born | 30 May 1922 |
| Died | 4 July 1946 (aged 24) |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Other names | "Beautiful Spectre" |
| Occupation | Guard of the Stutthof concentration camp |
| Organization | 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[edit]
Barkmann is believed to have spent her childhood in Hamburg. In 1944, she became an Aufseherin, or overseer, in the Stutthof SK-III women's subcamp, where she brutalized prisoners, some to death. She also selected women and children for the gas chambers.[citation needed] She was so merciless that the women prisoners nicknamed her the "Beautiful Specter".[1]
Barkmann fled Stutthof as the Soviet Red Army approached. She was arrested in May 1945 while trying to leave a train station in Gdańsk. She became a defendant in the first Stutthof Trial, where she and other defendants were convicted for their crimes at the camp. Barkmann is said[by whom?] to have giggled through the trial, flirted with her prison guards; she was apparently seen arranging her hair while hearing testimony. She was found guilty, after which she declared, "Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short."[1][2]
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. She was 24 years old, and the first to be hanged.[3]
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Jenny-Wanda Barkmann Biography Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ Stutthof Concentration Camp — Fold3.com – Historical Military Records. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ "1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp". Retrieved 22 July 2012.
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