Capture and Execution
Binz fled Ravensbrück during the death march, was captured on May 3, 1945, by the British in Hamburg and incarcerated in the Recklinghausen camp (formerly a Buchenwald subcamp).
Binz was tried with other SS personnel by a British court at the Ravensbrück Trial war crimes. She was convicted, sentenced to death and subsequently hanged at Hameln prison by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint on May 2, 1947.
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