The SS Commandant of the Biggest Women’s Camp: Fritz Suhren
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On April 30, 1945, Soviet forces liberated Ravensbrück, the largest Nazi concentration camp for women — a place that had become a symbol of unimaginable suffering and endurance. Behind its barbed wire, over 130,000 women from across Europe — Poles, Russians, Jews, Roma, and political prisoners — were enslaved, starved, beaten, and subjected to brutal medical experiments.
At the center of this nightmare stood Fritz Suhren, the SS commandant who ruled Ravensbrück with cold cruelty. Under his command, women were forced to work until they collapsed, and many were killed through hunger, disease, or execution. Yet even in this darkness, countless women showed extraordinary courage, defying their captors, protecting one another, and keeping hope alive.
When liberation finally came, the survivors were barely alive — but their strength and dignity endured. Suhren tried to flee justice, but the truth of his crimes could not be buried.
This is the story of the women of Ravensbrück, their unimaginable suffering, and the man who brought terror upon them.
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