Elfriede Rinkel

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Elfriede Lina Rinkel (née Huth, born July 14, 1922, Leipzig, Germany) was a guard at the Ravensbrück concentration camp from June 1944 until April 1945 handling an SS-trained guard dog. She claims that she did not use her dog as a weapon against prisoners, and that she did not join the Nazi party. However, other information contradicts this: "One prisoner reported that women were even worse than men in commanding their dogs to brutally attack inmates."^[1]

She left Germany for the United States and was admitted as an immigrant on or around September 21, 1959 in San Francisco, California. At a German-American club in San Francisco she met Fred William Rinkel and they married about 1962. He died in 2004. Rinkel stated she never told her husband of her past.^[2]

On September 1, 2006, Elfriede Rinkel was deported to Germany under a settlement agreement signed in June 2006 after being charged by a federal law requiring removal of aliens who took part in acts of Nazi-sponsored persecution filed by the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and the United States Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).^[2]

References

↑ Women Camp Guards
↑ 2.0 2.1 Blumenthal, Ralph (April 04, 2010). "The Last Nazi Hunter". Parade via The Virginian Pilot. pp. 4–5.

External links

"US widow deported over Nazi past". BBC News. 21 September 2006.
Serrano, Richard A. ""Sweet lady" surprise: Nazi prison-guard past". Los Angeles Times (The Seattle Times).
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Name	Rinkel, Elfriede Lina
Alternative names	Huth, Elfriede Lina
Short description	World War II German concentration camp guard deported from the United States
Date of birth	July 14, 1922
Place of birth	Leipzig, Germany
Date of death
Place of death

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