EXECUTION of Therese Brandl - Extremely Cruel NAZI Guard at Auschwitz & Ravensbrück Conc. Camps

Execution of Therese Brandl - Extremely Cruel NAZI Guard at Auschwitz & Ravensbrück Conc. Camps. Therese Brandl was born on the 1st of February, 1909, in Bavarian Staudach-Egerndach, then part of the German Empire and was a waitress by profession. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came into power in January 1933 and one year later Brandl became a member of The German Labour Front or the DAF which was the national labour organisation of the Nazi Party, which replaced the various independent trade unions in Germany.
The Second World War began on the 1st of September, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Therese Brandl’s criminal career in concentration camps began the following year when she arrived in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp to be trained as a guard.
Ravensbrück, opened in May 1939, was the only major women's camp established by the Nazis. Ravensbrück camp was staffed both by SS men, who served as guards and administrators, and by 150 women, who served as supervisors. These female supervisors were either SS volunteers or women who had taken the job for the good pay and working conditions. Ravensbrück also housed a training camp for female SS guards who were taught by Maria Mandl - the sadistically cruel German Nazi officer and supervisor - who instructed trainees on how to handle the prisoners that they were going to supervise.
These prisoners would have to work until they died and the task of their supervisors, such as Therese Brandl, was to get a maximum amount of work out of them whilst they were still alive. Ravensbrück thus also became a training center or “a school of violence “ for about 3,500 female guards who went on to serve either there or at other concentration camps.
In total, some 132,000 women from all over Europe passed through the camp, including Poles, Russians, Jews, Gypsies, and others. Of that number, over 92,000 women perished.
In March 1942 Brandl was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp located in German occupied Poland where at first, she worked in the laundry.
The Germans established Auschwitz in May 1940. The direct reason for the establishment of the camp, which was located around 60 km west of Krakow, was the fact that mass arrests of Poles were increasing beyond the capacity of existing "local" prisons.
The first 30 prisoners, the German criminals with green badges, arrived in Auschwitz on the 20th of May 1940 from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
In the beginning, as with most German concentration camps, Auschwitz I served three purposes: to incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime; to provide a supply of forced laborers for deployment in SS-owned construction-related enterprises and to kill small, targeted groups of the population.
During the Holocaust, Auschwitz was the only location where concentration camp prisoners received tattoos.
Incoming prisoners were assigned a camp serial number which was sewn into their uniforms. However, only those prisoners selected for work were issued with serial numbers. Those prisoners who were sent directly to the gas chambers were not registered and received no tattoos.

Numerous testimonies from survivors and witnesses attest to Brandl's cruelty and sadistic behavior. She took pleasure in physically abusing prisoners and was known for her particularly harsh treatment of women and children. She would harass the prisoners in such a way that in the summer she would give out warm winter underwear and shoes, while in the winter she would issue summer underwear and clogs, besides which she would beat the prisoners personally. In her capacity, she harassed female prisoners, refusing to issue them with clothing or underwear from the inventory, and when she did issue these items, they were riddled with lice.
According to Antonina Piątkowska, a prisoner who served at the Auschwitz from the 27th of April 1942 until the liquidation of the camp on the 18th of January 1945, Brandl displayed a particularly hostile attitude toward Polish female prisoners. She carried out block inspections, alone or with other SS women, in the course of which she beat and insulted the prisoners, calling them “Polish pigs”. Piatkowska

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