Execution of Maria Mandl - Sadistic Nazi Guard at Auschwitz & Ravensbrück - Nazi Germany -Holocaust

Execution of Maria Mandl - Sadistic Nazi Guard at Auschwitz & Ravensbrück - Nazi Germany -Holocaust. Maria Mandl was 26 years old when Adolf Hitler annexed the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich. The Anschluss, as it became known, took place over three days between the 11th and 13th of March 1938. In September 1938 Mandl moved to Munich and one month later she was deployed as a guard in Lichtenburg concentration camp. On the 15th of May 1939, Mandl was sent with the other guards to the newly opened Ravensbrück concentration camp. Ravensbrück, opened in May 1939, was the only major women’s camp established by the Nazis. In total, some 132,000 women from all over Europe passed through the camp, including Poles, Russians, Jews, Gypsies, and others. Of that number, over 92,000 women perished. Ravensbrück camp was staffed both by SS men, who served as guards and administrators, and by 150 women, who served as supervisors. . In April 1941, Mandl joined the Nazi