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Jenny-Wanda Barkmann

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Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
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Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (30 May 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a German overseer in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war.

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Barkmann was born in 1922 and is believed to have spent her childhood in Hamburg.

In 1944, Barkmann volunteered with the Schutzstaffel as an Aufseherin,[1] a concentration camp overseer, in the Stutthof SK-III women's subcamp in Poland, where she brutalized prisoners, sometimes to death. She also selected women and children for the gas chambers.[2] Women prisoners nicknamed her the Beautiful Spectre.[2]

Barkmann fled Stutthof and hid in Gdańsk, 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 first Stutthof 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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Public execution of Stutthof concentration camp personnel on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging. In the foreground, from left to right, are female camp overseers Barkmann, Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, and Gerda Steinhoff.

Barkmann was publicly executed by short-drop hanging along with ten other defendants from the trial on Biskupia 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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