Female Nazis and racist Swiss women
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
It is a shocking fact but ten percent of the guards in Nazi concentration camps were women.
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The Conversation is one of many publishers to write a feature article about these sadistic women.
When we see nazis in the news or in the movies, we typically see pictures of the male leaders and their male soldiers.
In 1957, American engineer Russell Ryan met Braunsteiner while holidaying in Austria. She did not tell him about her past. They fell in love, married and moved to New York, where they lived quiet lives until she was tracked down by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Russell could not believe she had been a Nazi concentration camp guard. His wife, he said, “would not hurt a fly”.
The BBC web site has their own article about women torturing Nazi victims.
The fascist regime promoted a world-view of women in traditional mothering roles. Many German women were able to use this philosophy as an opportunity to deny any personal involvement in the Holocaust and most claimed they didn't even know it was happening.
Nonetheless, given that so many women were in fact willing to work in the concentration camps, should we be more skeptical of those German women who claim they knew nothing?
News has recently emerged about young women in Switzerland today openly wearing the swastika tattoo and performing the Nazi salute.
Multiple Swiss women including Caroline Kuhnlein-Hofmann and Melanie Bron in Vaud and Pascale Köster and Albane die Ziegler at Walder Wyss in Zurich signed a document about excluding foreign software developers and obfuscating who really did the work. This is totally analogous to the behavior of the Nazis who plagiarised the work of Jewish authors in textbooks.
Here is another photo from Polymanga 2023 in Montreux, the young Swiss woman is sitting on the edge of Lake Geneva. The lake is the border with France. █
