First Belsen Trial Aufseherin Herta Bothe/Lange

Also Known As : Sadist of Stutthof
Date Of Birth : 03/01/1921
Place Of Birth : Teterow
Died : 16/03/2000
Comments :
Trial : First Belsen Trial
Trial Location : 30 Lindenstraße, Lüneburg 17 September - 17 November 1945
Trial Defendent Number : 37
   
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Brief History

Nurse in a hospital when she was conscripted into the SS in September 1942.

Sent to Ravensbrück for four weeks training as an Aufseherin.

21 November 1942 - Arrived Stutthof from Ravensbrück.

27 March 1944 or July 1944 transferred to Bromberg Ost.

21 January 1945 she accompanied a death march of prisoners being evacuated to Bergen-Belsen.

Arrived Bergen-Belsen between 20 - 26 February 1945.

17 September 1945. Stands trial at the 'Trial of Josef Kramer and Forty Four others' at 30 Lindenstraße, Lüneburg. Charged with Count 1.

17 November 1945. Sentenced to 10 Years Imprisonment with an earliest release date of 16 July 1952.

Released 21 December 1951.

Marries and her name changed to Herta Lange.

Died 16 March 2000

Many thanks to Ricky Jarstad for supplying some of the above information.

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