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SS-Gefolge (Women's SS Division)

SS-Gefolge members (from left to right: Hildegard Kanbach, Magdalene Kessel, Lisbeth Fritzner, Irene Haschke, Herta Ehlert, Herta Bothe) being paraded for burying victims at Bergen-Belsen. Photographed by Sergeant Harry Oakes on 17 April 1945, the camp was liberated two days later and the women were arrested on 15 May.

SS-Gefolge was the designation for the group of female civilian employees of the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany. SS-Gefolge members served the Schutzstaffel in a limited capacity, as the organisation was not formally a part of the SS. Members of the Gefolge worked in the Nazi concentration camps as guards and nurses.[1]

  1. ^ Schäfer, Silke (21 October 2002). "Zum Selbstverständnis von Frauen im Konzentrationslager: Das Lager Ravensbrück" [The Self-image of Women in the Concentration Camp: The Ravensbrück Camp]. Fakultät I: Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften (in German). Technische Universität Berlin. doi:10.14279/depositonce-528. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 18 November 2024.

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