WAR 'WITCHES' Female Nazi guards tortured and killed thousands, beat naked women to death & ‘made lampshades from human skin’

RIDING through the grounds of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, Ilse Koch spotted a tattooed prisoner and pointed him out to a nearby guard - sealing his gruesome fate.

Like many of his fellow inmates, the man would be murdered and stripped of his skin - which would be used to make a lampshade in Koch’s home.

Sadistic Koch - known as the “Witch of Buchenwald” - was just one of many women who murdered, maimed and tortured Jewish prisoners in the Holocaust.

Among the 55,000 guards at the concentration camps, 10,000 were women and they were trained to be every bit as vicious as their male counterparts.

Often low paid workers who took the roles to earn more cash, they were trained at the all-women Ravensbruck camp, in Northern Germany, where they became hardened to the cruel torture of inmates and learned to administer punishments with boots, truncheons, whips and riding crops.

Some went on to be involved in administering lethal sterilisation experiments, others helped select victims of the gas chambers, set dogs on young girls and murdered inmates before incinerating their bodies.

This week, a 95-year-old woman was arrested in Germany and charged with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people - the first such case in recent years.

The former secretary, who lives in a care home and is unnamed, had worked at the Stutthof camp near Danzig, in Nazi-occupied Poland. She is “accused of having assisted those responsible at the camp in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet Russian prisoners of war” between June 1943 and April 1945.

Here we look at the horrendous role these guards - known as Aufseherins, or female overseers - played during the War.

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