Luise Brunner
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Luise Brunner was one of only two women to have ever reached the rank of Chief Senior Overseer (Chef Oberaufseherin), a high-ranking officer designation for SS guards in concentration camps.
She was among several dozen women who guarded Auschwitz-Birkenau camps. After the war, she was sentenced to three years in prison as a result of the Ravensbrück Trials.