SS-Gefolge was the designation for the group of female civilian employees of the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany. SS-Gefolge members were only allowed to...
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to join the SS[citation needed] but were allowed into the SS-Gefolge and many served within the concentration camps. Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally...
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Female guards in Nazi concentration camps (redirect from SS-Oberaufseherin)
women to show their love for the Reich and join the SS-Gefolge ("SS-Retinue", a Schutzstaffel (SS) support and service organisation for women). Additionally...
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father the same year, as he had been vehemently opposed to her joining the SS-Gefolge. He expelled her from his house. Grese participated in prisoner selections...
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the Holocaust. On 15 November 1939, Ehlert was called for Schutzstaffel (SS) work by the Labor Exchange, and began working at Ravensbrück concentration...
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until 1941, when she became an agriculture assistant in Danzig. In 1944, the SS needed more guards at the nearby Stutthof concentration camp, and Becker was...
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at Ravensbrück. At Auschwitz, she met SS-Rottenführer Heinz Volkenrath, who had worked there since 1941 as SS-Blockführer. The couple married in 1943...
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Women in Nazi Germany (section In the SS)
German Red Cross or other voluntary organizations The SS-Gefolge was the women's wing of the men's SS, but in contrast it was only confined to voluntary...
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female SS members and 16 male SS members. Although the SS was an all-male organisation, women were able to enlist as members of the SS-Gefolge, a form...
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maint: location missing publisher (link) Erpel, Simone (2007). "Im Gefolge der SS": Aufseherinnen des Frauen-Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrück. Berlin...
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job in the Lebensborn of Munich. From that moment she belonged to the SS-Gefolge. She first worked as a stenographer. From September 1939, she oversaw...
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lasting 474 sessions. A number of former high ranking SS men, camp officials, camp guards, and SS staff were arraigned before the courts on charges of...
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Toberentz were indicted of being part of the SS female guardians, also called Wardresses (Aufseherinnen, SS-Gefolge) under British military penal code in the...
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"KZ-Aufseherinnen-Parteigängerinnen der NSDAP?", in: Simone Erpel (ed.), Im Gefolge der SS: Aufseherinnen des Frauen-KZ Ravensbrück. Begleitband zur Ausstellung...
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'KZ-Aufseherinnen-Parteigängerinnen der NSDAP?', in: Simone Erpel (ed.): Im Gefolge der SS: Aufseherinnen des Frauen-KZ Ravensbrück. Begleitband zur Ausstellung...
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addition, the losses of the paramilitary 'Wehrmacht entourage' (Wehrmacht Gefolge), which were attached to the 6th Army and supported it (members of O.T...
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