Greta Bösel

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Greta Bösel, née Mueller (May 9, 1908 – May 3, 1947) was a trained nurse.

Born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany, she became a camp guard at Ravensbrück some time between 1939 and 1943. She was executed for her crimes there.

Her rank at the camp was "Arbeitseinsatzführerin" (Work Escorting Overseer). In November 1944, Greta was supposed to have been one of the staff to select prisoners for the gas chamber, or transfer to Uckermark. She is known to have told another SS guard "If they [prisoners] cannot work, let them rot."

After the death march of prisoners out of Ravensbrück following the impending liberation by the Red Army of Soviet troops, Greta fled the camp with her husband.

She was later caught and arrested by British troops. Greta, along with other female guards including Margarete Mewes and Dorothea Binz stood accused at the Ravensbrück Trial which took place between December 1946 and February 1947 in Hamburg, Germany. The court found her guilty of maltreatment, murder and taking part in "selections". She was hanged along with Elisabeth Marschall at 9:55 am on May 3, 1947.