Female Fascist Guards and Camp Auxiliaries
Cruel Beauty: Nazi Guard Jenny Wanda Barkmann and Stutthof Camp
16m
Beneath her beauty hid one of Stutthof’s most feared guards.
Jenny Wanda Barkmann, known by prisoners as “The Beautiful Spectre,” became a symbol of cruelty inside the Nazi concentration camp. She beat women and children, sent countless to the gas chambers, and watched them die without remorse. Her vanity matched her brutality—smiling through her trial, changing hairstyles daily, and showing no regret for the lives she destroyed. In 1946, justice came publicly on the gallows before a crowd of thousands.
This is the haunting story of Jenny Wanda Barkmann—the woman whose beauty masked unimaginable evil.
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