Ida Bertha Gertrud Schreiter (12 December 1912 – 20 September 1948) was from 1939 to 1945 an ''Aufseherin'' (labor department warden) in

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. After the

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, Schreiter was brought to justice by the British occupation forces in Germany. She was accused of having taken part in the "selections" of prisoners who were subsequently murdered or died as a result of deliberate overwork or neglect. At the Seventh Ravensbrück Trial she was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death. Schreiter was subsequently

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on the

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by British executioner

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External links

* Silke Schäfer:
Zum Selbstverständnis von Frauen im Konzentrationslager. Das Lager Ravensbrück.
'. Berlin 2002 (Dissertation als PDF-Datei; 741 kB)

References

{{authoritycontrol 1912 births 1948 deaths Executed German mass murderers Executed German women Female guards in Nazi concentration camps Hamburg Ravensbrück trials executions Holocaust perpetrators in Germany