From Danzig to the Gallows: The Crimes of Stutthof Guard Wanda Klaff
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Born in the Free City of Danzig in 1922, Wanda Klaff lived an unremarkable early life — until war transformed Europe. In September 1939, Nazi Germany established Stutthof concentration camp near her hometown. Within years, it would become a site of forced labor, gassing, epidemics, and mass death.
In 1944, Klaff joined the camp guard system. Survivors described beatings, selections, and merciless treatment under her supervision. As the Third Reich collapsed, Stutthof prisoners were forced on deadly evacuations in which thousands died.
Arrested after the war, Klaff stood trial in 1946. Convicted of crimes against humanity, she faced public justice in one of postwar Poland’s most dramatic executions of Nazi camp personnel. Her life traces the path from indoctrination and cruelty to accountability — a chilling chapter in the history of the Holocaust.
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