ELEVEN TO DIE

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 February 1947, Page 5

ELEVEN TO DIE

SENTENCES ON NAZIS ' FIVE WOMEN INCLUDED IN CONDEMNED ravensbruck atrocities (Rec. 9.50 a.m.) HAMBURG, February 3. Five women and six men were this afternoon sentenced to death by hanging for atrocities at the Nazis’ Ravensbruck women s concentration camp. . The women who will die are Theodora Binz, Vera Salvequart, Elizabeth Marschall, Greta Boesel and Carmen Mory. The men sentenced to death are Johann Schwarzhuber, Ludwig Ramdour, Gustav Binder, Dr. Gerhard Schidlausky, Dr. Percy Triete and Dr. Rolf Rosenthal. The other sentences were : Hemrich Peters,. 15 years’ imprisonment; Dr. Marten Hellenger, 15 years; Elizabeth Mewes’, 10 years; Eugehia von Skena, 10 years. The pronouncement of the sentences took 14 minutes, the prisoners filing sileptly into the dock . Most of the women closed their eyes as sentence was passed. Von Skena, a cripple, leaned on a stick as he stood in the dock. Most of the condemned men showed little emotion, but the faces of those sentenced to imprisonment showed relief. The Russian officer observers attending the trial stated that they were pleased with the decisions, but had expected that Mewes and Peters would also be hanged. Carmen Mory, known as the “black angel of Ravensbruck,” swayed in the dock, and then with her head bent crossed herself as she was sentenced to death for the second time in nine years. A French, court first sentenced her in 1938 for espionage on the Maginot Line. Mory, who repeatedly during the trial claimed that she is engaged to a British officer, gave a farewell message to him: “I would like him to know that I was handcuffed to Bjnz, after I had her for 15 months as my torturer in solitary confinement.” Mory said she last saw her fiance when she was in British custody charged with Ravensbruck war crimes. “He is a dear and charming,” she added.

Mory also claimed that she worked in the British zone of Germany with a London intelligence sergeant, hunting Nazi war criminals.