Jenny-Wanda Barkmann | |
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 Barkmann at theStutthof trials in 1946 | |
| Born | 30 May 1922 |
| Died | 4 July 1946(1946-07-04) (aged 24) |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Other names | "Beautiful Spectre" |
| Occupation | Guard of theStutthof concentration camp |
| Political party | Nazi Party |
| Conviction | Crime against humanity |
| Trial | Stutthof trials |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann(30 May 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a German overseer inNazi concentration camps duringWorld War II. She was tried and executed forcrimes against humanity after the war.
Barkmann was born in 1922 and is believed to have spent her childhood inHamburg.
In 1944, Barkmann volunteered with theSchutzstaffel as anAufseherin,[1] a concentration camp overseer, in theStutthof SK-III women's subcamp inPoland, where she brutalized prisoners, sometimes to death. She alsoselected women and children for thegas chambers.[2] Women prisoners nicknamed her the Beautiful Spectre.[2]
Barkmann fled Stutthof and hid inGdańsk, where she was arrested at a train station[1] in May 1945 for her criminal wartime acts. In 1946, she became a defendant in the firstStutthof trial, where she and other defendants were convicted for their crimes at the camp.[2] After she was found guilty she declared, "Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short."[3]
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Barkmann was publicly executed byshort-drop hanging along with ten other defendants from the trial onBiskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk on 4 July 1946.[4] Former Stutthof prisoners volunteered to conduct the executions. She was 24 years old at the time of her death.[5]
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