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Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (born 1919)

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Hermine Braunsteiner

Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard (1919–1999)

Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was an Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps. She was the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States to face trial in West Germany. Braunsteiner was known to prisoners of Majdanek…
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Schutzstaffel

Nazi paramilitary organisation (1925–1945)

The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
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