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Mistress of life and death the dark journey of Maria Mandl, head overseer of the womens camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

This gripping account of the highest-ranked woman in the Third Reich who, as Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was personally responsible for the murder, torture and suffering of countless prisoners, explores how she became to embody the very worst of humanity.

Main Author: Eischeid, Susan J. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2024]
Subjects:
Mandl, Maria.
Women Nazis > Germany > Biography.
Nazi concentration camps > Poland > Officials and employees > Biography.
Women > Political activity > Germany > History > 20th century > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities.
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Maria, September 1946
  • Hometown
  • Childhood
  • Coming of age
  • Anschluss
  • Aufseherin
  • KZ Lichtenburg
  • A good, orderly life
  • "Rein kommt Ihr alle, aber niemals wieder lebend raus!"
  • The transformation
  • Ravensbrück
  • Daily life
  • The visit
  • "To work!"
  • Leisure time
  • Christmas in Ravensbrück
  • The prisoners
  • The bunker
  • In charge
  • The mistress of life and death
  • The hunt of the curly-heads
  • The biggest cruelty
  • Lab rabbits
  • The transfer
  • Antefoom to Hell
  • Hell
  • Order and discipline
  • Appell was torture
  • A normal life
  • Oberaufseherin
  • The lover
  • The "ladies"
  • "Mandelka"
  • The embodiment of Satan
  • "We ALLOW you to work for us!"
  • Humiliated, appalled, helpless
  • A pause, to acknowledge courage
  • The whip
  • Selections
  • All begging was in vain
  • "I often cried"
  • The orchestra
  • Hope
  • Alma
  • At the gate
  • "She would look beautiful"
  • The men
  • "The orchestra means life!"
  • Christmas in Auschwitz
  • The paradox
  • The children
  • The child was eaten by rats
  • An untimely death
  • Mala
  • Summer of '44/Homecoming
  • The living Hell
  • Dissolution
  • Mühldorf
  • Escape and capture
  • Dachau
  • Margit
  • Treated with respect
  • Extradition
  • Selbstmord
  • The beater becomes the beaten
  • Cieszyn
  • Montelupich
  • Arrival in prison
  • Harsh, but better
  • The escape
  • Time passed slowly
  • Cellmates
  • "Pani Jadzia"
  • Always full of ideas
  • Personal encounters
  • The dirties
  • "Virgin mother of my God, let me be fully your own"
  • The tribunal
  • The lawyers
  • Rymar
  • Deposition
  • The trial
  • In session
  • Opening
  • The case against Mandl
  • The evidence
  • Defense
  • The game is lost (final innings)
  • The press
  • Challenge of the orchestra women
  • Closing arguments
  • Guilty
  • Sentence
  • The waiting
  • Christmas Eve 1947
  • Zaba
  • Father Stark
  • Rachwalowa and the shower room
  • Si non è vero
  • Remorse
  • Hanging, by rope, until dead
  • Site of execution
  • EGZEKUCJA
  • It begins
  • The death of Maria
  • Sentence complete
  • Aftermath
  • Certificate of death
  • The accounting
  • The family
  • The father
  • What might have been
  • Coda.

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