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Born to a middle class German family in Dusterlake, Germany (near Fürstenberg and Ravensbrück itself) Binz attended school until she was fifteen. Afterwards she spent time as a maid but disliked the job, applied at a local SS office and was sent to Ravensbrück on September 1, 1939 to undergo training as a guard. The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... Jump to: navigation, search September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Binz served as an Aufseherin under Oberaufseherin Johanna Langefeld, Maria Mandel, and Erna Rose. She worked in various parts of the camp including the kitchen and laundry. Later she is said to have supervised the bunker where women prisoners were tortured and killed. Aufseherin (female overseer or attendant - german plural Aufseherinnen) is the term for a female guard in the Nazi concentration camps. ... Johanna Langefeld was a female supervisor at two concentration camps during the Nazi Regime. ... Maria Mandel (January 10, 1912 - January 24, 1948) was infamous for her key role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where she is believed to have been directly responsible for orders to kill over 500,000 female Jews, Gypsies, and political prisoners. ... Erna Rose was an SS supervisor at the Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin. ... A bunker is a defensive warfare fortification to protect oneself. ...

In August 1943 Binz was promoted to Stellvertretende Oberaufseherin (Deputy Chief Wardress). Her abuse was later described as unyielding. As a member of the command staff between 1943 and 1945 she directed training and assigned duties to over 1,000 female guards. Binz reportedly trained some of the cruelest female guards in the system, including Ruth Closius. These SS Aufseherinnen went on to over 200 women's camps across Poland, Germany, Austria and eastern France. Eventually she was responsible for over 100,000 female and underage prisoners. Her superiors were Lagerleiterin Erna Rose, Oberaufseherin Johanna Langefeld and the commandant, Max Kögel. In 1944 Ravensbrück received vast numbers of women and children from Auschwitz Birkenau, Majdanek, Plaszow, Stutthof and various slave labor camps in Poland. Binz supervised mass shootings and killings in the gas chambers as well as mass deaths by starvation, neglect, severe abuse and cold. Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Ruth Closius was an SS supervisor at a death camp complex from December 1944 until March 1945. ... Erna Rose was an SS supervisor at the Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin. ... Johanna Langefeld was a female supervisor at two concentration camps during the Nazi Regime. ... Max Kögel (1895-1946) was a concentration camp officer during World War II. He was camp commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp and Flossenbürg concentration camp. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... Monument at Majdanek Memorial. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Stutthof, commonly refers to the Stutthof concentration camp complex built near the town of Sztutowo, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Sztutowo (called by the Germans Stutthof) itself. ... A gas chamber is a means of execution whereby a poisonous gas is introduced into a hermetically sealed chamber. ... Starvation is a severe reduction in vitamin, nutrient, and energy intake, and is the most extreme form of malnutrition. ...

At Ravensbrück, the young Binz is said to have beaten, slapped, kicked, shot, whipped, stomped and abused women continuously. Witnesses testified that when she appeared at roll call, "silence fell." She reportedly carried a whip in hand along with a leashed German Shepherd and at a moment's notice would kick a woman to death or select her to be killed. French prisoners nicknamed her La Binz. A whip is a tapered flexible length of either a single cord or plaited (braided) leather or other material, commonly with a stiff handle. ... Country of origin Germany Classification Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC, CKC KC(UK), NZKC, UKC The German Shepherd Dog (known also as the Alsatian or Schäfer(hund)) is an intelligent breed of dog. ...

Binz had a boyfriend in the camp, SS officer Edmund Bräuning. The two are said to have gone on romantic walks around the camp to watch women being flogged, after which they would stroll away laughing. They lived together in a house outside the camp walls until late 1944 when Edmund was transferred to Buchenwald. There is one report Binz used an axe to chop a Polish prisoner to death during a wood chopping kommando (forced labour assignment). Firefighter with a fire-axe An axe (also spelt as ax in American English) is a tool with a metal blade that is securely fastened at a 90° angle to a handle (the helve}, usually of wood, while a blade fastened horizontally is called an adze. ...

Binz fled Ravensbrück during the death march, was captured on 3 May 1945 by the British and incarcerated in the Recklinghausen camp (formerly a Buchenwald subcamp). She was tried with other SS personnel by a British court at the Ravensbrück Trial and was hanged at Hameln, Germany on 2 May 1947 for war crimes. Jump to: navigation, search May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Elie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). ... The Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials were a series of seven trials for war crimes against camp officials from the Ravensbrück concentration camp that the British authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Hamburg after the end of World War II. These trials were heard before a military... Hanging is a form of execution, or a method for suicide. ... Map of Germany showing Hamelin Watershed of the River Weser Hamelin (German: Hameln) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search A war crime is a punishable offense, under international (criminal) law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ...

Sources

Most of the information in this article comes from two sources:

• The Camp Women: The Female Auxiliaries Who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System, page 42
• http://www.geocities.com/biskupia/dorotheabinz.htm (which has a few pictures of Dorothea Binz, Eugenia von Skene, Margarete Mewes and Greta Boesel in it. Binz is number 5. Mewes is number 6. Boesel is number 7.)
• Other information was told by survivors after the war.