Erika Bergmann
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Erika Bergmann (born on January 3, 1915 in an unknown German city) was a Nazi guard in at least three slave labor camps during World War II. In 1943 Bergmann arrived at Ravensbruck where she received her initial training and first assignment. In late 1944 she went to the Neu Rohlau subcamp of Flossenburg located near Chemnitz, Germany.
The middle aged Bergmann soon moved on to the Oederan subcamp of Flossenburg where she served out the rest of the war, after which an East German court found her guilty of murder and sentenced her to life imprisonment. Her trial was held in former East Germany in Neubrandenburg in November 1955.
She was accused of cruelty towards prisoners using a whip and to have set a dog on prisoners (killing 6 of them) amongst other things. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Bergmann was still in prison in Hoheneck alongside Ulla Jürß, another female Nazi guard. They both petitioned for mercy and were released on probation in May 1991.
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