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RAVENSBRUCK WARDRESS ATTEMPTS AT EVASIVENESS LONDON, Jan. 6. Blonde, puffy-faced Dorothea Binz, 27, “ the woman who taught Irma Griese,” nervously tried to sidestep questions about her treatment of prisoners in Ravensbruck women’s concentration camp when the trial of staff members was resumed, says the British United Press correspondent at Hamburg. Binz, who had been a voluntary member of the S.S. since she was 19, became chief wardress of Ravensbruck. She admitted that prisoners were beaten, “but never with straps or whips,” and that she often boxed prisoners’ ears. “But I was often attacked by prisoners,” she said. She also admitted that she regularly kept some prisoners without food for three days. She could not recall how many women she had struck in the camp.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26354, 8 January 1947, Page 5
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