Capture and Execution
In late April 1945, she fled from the camp, was later captured and detained in prison while the British Army investigated the allegations against her. In April 1948, she stood accused at the third Ravensbrück Trial, along with other SS women. The twenty-eight-year-old former SS supervisor confessed to all the accusations of murder and maltreatment in her deposition.
The British court found her guilty of war crimes. She was executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at Hamelin Prison on July 29, 1948, aged 28 years.
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