HORRIBLY Brutal EXECUTION of Elisabeth Becker – Sadistic NAZI Guard at Stutthof Camp during WW2
Execution of Elisabeth Becker – Sadistic NAZI Guard at Stutthof Camp during WW2. The 6th of June 1944. Elisabeth Becker was born on the 20 July 1923 in Neuteich, then part of a city state named “The Free City of Danzig” which was created following World War I. From 1936, Elisabeth was a member of the League of German Girls which was the female section of the Hitler Youth. These organizations, led by Baldur von Schirach, were the primary tools that the Nazis used to indoctrinate young people with Nazi ideology, thus shaping the beliefs, thinking and actions of German youth. She was 16 years old when the Second world war began on the 1st of September, 1939. The same month, the Germans established the Stutthof camp in a wooded area west of Stutthof, a town about 22 miles east of Danzig. The original camp, known as the old camp, was surrounded by barbed-wire fences and 8 barracks for the inmates built by prisoners in 1940.
The camp was established in connection with the ethnic cleansing project that included the liquidation of Polish elites such as members of the intelligentsia as well as religious and political leaders.
Even before the war, the Germans had created lists of people to be arrested, and the Nazi authorities were secretly reviewing suitable places to set up concentration camps in their area.
Originally, Stutthof was a civilian internment camp under the Danzig police chief, before its subsequent massive expansion. In November 1941, it became a “labor education” camp for political prisoners and persons accused of violating labor discipline, administered by the SD – the German Security Police. Finally, in January 1942, Stutthof became a regular concentration camp under the jurisdiction of the SS.
In 1943, the camp was enlarged and a new camp was constructed alongside the earlier one. It contained 30 new barracks and was surrounded by electrified barbed-wire fences. A crematorium and gas chamber were added in 1943, just in time to start mass executions when Stutthof was included in the “Final Solution” in June 1944. The maximum capacity of the gas chamber was 150 people per execution.
Eventually, the Stutthof camp system became a vast network of forced-labor camps. 105 Stutthof subcamps were established throughout northern and central German-occupied Poland.
Tens of thousands of people, perhaps as many as 100,000, were deported to the Stutthof camp. The prisoners were mainly non-Jewish Poles. Conditions in the camp were brutal. Many prisoners died in typhus epidemics that swept the camp in the winter of 1942 and again in 1944. Those whom the SS guards judged too weak or sick to work were gassed in the gas chamber. Gassing with Zyklon B gas began in June 1944. 4,000 prisoners, including Jewish women and children, were killed in a gas chamber before the evacuation of the camp.
Camp doctors also killed sick or injured prisoners in the infirmary with lethal injections of phenol. More than 60,000 people died in Stutthof concentration camp and its subcamps.
Until 1942, nearly all of the prisoners were Polish. The number of inmates increased considerably in 1944, with Jews forming a significant proportion of the newcomers. The first contingent of 2,500 Jewish prisoners arrived from Auschwitz in July 1944. In total, 23,566 Jews including 21,817 women were transferred to Stutthof from Auschwitz.
The camp staff consisted of SS guards and, after 1943, Ukrainian auxiliaries.
The SS in Stutthof began conscripting women from Danzig and the surrounding cities in June 1944, to train as camp guards because of their severe shortage after the women’s subcamp of Stutthof called Bromberg-Ost was set up in the city of Bydgoszcz. One such woman became Elisabeth Becker who at the time worked as an agriculture assistant in Danzig.
On the 5 September 1944 she became a guard in Stutthof “SK-III ” women’s camp.
In the camp, Becker, then 21 year old woman indoctrinated with the Nazi ideology, was devoted to her job and become known as a ruthless overseer.
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