Ravensbruck: The Concentration Camp for Women
Inside Ravensbrück, the Nazi concentration camp for women where tens of thousands lost their lives. Ravensbrück might not be as well-known as Auschwitz or Dachau, but it was the Nazis' main concentration camp built specifically for women.
Barbed wire, watchtowers, long roll-call squares, and physical abuse turned it into the backdrop for one of the bleakest chapters of the war. The camp opened in May 1939, just months before the outbreak of war.
The Nazis wanted a central site to hold women they branded asocial or politically dangerous, including:
- Communists
- Social democrats
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Jews
- Roma and Sinti
- Sex workers
Later in the war, it became a prison for female resistance fighters from across occupied Europe. The compound was run by the SS and staffed with female guards, hundreds of whom trained there before being sent to other camps.
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Author's summary: Ravensbrück was a Nazi concentration camp for women.
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