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Nazi Germany: the terrible story of the women who became torturers of the SS

“They are looking for healthy workers from among 27 Y 40 years for a military location ”, it read in a job advertisement in a German newspaper at 1944. It promised the selected women good wages and free food, lodging and clothing. What is not mentioned is that the clothing is a SS uniform . And that the “military site” was the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. The precarious wooden barracks for female prisoners disappeared a long time ago. All that's left is an eerily empty rocky field about 86 kilometers north of Berlin. What does follow in foot are eight attractive villas of solid construction with wooden shutters and balconies. They are a Nazi version of the decade of 1940 of the medieval German huts. View of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp in 19...