Female Fascist Guards and Camp Auxiliaries
From Housekeeper to Killer: Hermine Braunsteiner’s Path to Hell
16m
She was called “The Stomping Mare.”
Hermine Braunsteiner, an Austrian woman who dreamed of being a nurse, instead became one of the most feared female guards in the Nazi camps. At Ravensbrück and Majdanek, she beat, whipped, and trampled prisoners to death — including women and children. Survivors remembered her boots, her cruelty, and her cold indifference. After the war she fled to America under a new name, but justice would find her decades later. Her story reveals how ordinary ambition turned into monstrous evil.
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