Jenny-Wanda Barkmann

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Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, back row right, at a war trial between April 25 and May 31, 1946, in Gdańsk

Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (c.1921 – July 4, 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp SS official.

[edit] Life

She is believed to have spent her childhood in Hamburg, Germany.

[edit] Camps

In 1944, she became an Aufseherin in the Stutthof SK-III women's camp, where she brutalized prisoners, some to death. She also selected women and children for the gas chambers. She was so severe the women prisoners nicknamed her the Beautiful Specter.

[edit] Arrest

Barkmann fled Stutthof as the Soviets approached. She was arrested in May 1945 while trying to leave a train station in Gdańsk, incarcerated and became a defendant in the Stutthof Trial.

She is said to have flirted with her prison guards and was apparently seen arranging her hair while hearing testimony. She was found guilty, after which she declared, "Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short."^{[citation needed]}

Barkmann was publicly hanged on July 4, 1946, on Biskupia Gorka Hill, near Gdańsk. She was around twenty-five years old.