March 5, 1900 - Johanna Langefeld
Langefeld rose to become one of the most senior female figures in the SS concentration camp system, serving as chief supervisor at Ravensbrück and later holding authority over female prisoners at Auschwitz. Her career spanned the expansion of the camp network from its early years through the height of the Holocaust, placing her in positions of direct administrative control over the conditions under which thousands of women were held. That she faced arrest after the war but escaped custody and died without ever standing trial marks her as one of the more significant figures from that system to have evaded legal accountability.
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Johanna Langefeld (née May; 5 March 1900, Kupferdreh, Germany – 26 January 1974) was a Nazi German guard and supervisor at three Nazi concentration camps: Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, and Auschwitz. She was arrested and imprisoned for her role in the Holocaust, but she escaped prison and was never tried.
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