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About Hildegard Mende
- Hildegard Mende (born 24 November 1922) was a female guard (Aufseherin, in German) in two concentration camps during World War II.
- She was employed in Ravensbrück and then in the small fortress of Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto in Czechoslovakia.
- About 88,000 Jews were deported from Theresienstadt; over 33,000 are known to have been murdered or died in the camp itself.
- She gained the nickname "The Beast" for her alleged sadism.Her husband was Herbert Mende (1 February 1919 – 1997), a "Polish German, a boxer, a member of the Prague Gestapo, from prison in June 1940 who was appointed guard in Terezin, and was known for his harsh interrogations.
- On September 24, 1948, he was sentenced in absentia to death.
- However, he lived in the GDR and with impunity since 1969 in Germany, where he died in 1997.
- As an overseer, he worked in Theresienstadt with his wife Hildegard, who was allegedly able to kill prisoners with their bare hands."
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