exhaustion alone. Capture and trials for war crimes At the end of the war in May 1945, Danz tried to slip into obscurity, but was discovered, captured and arrested on 1 June 1945 in Lützow and tried by Poland at the Auschwitz Trial for crimes she had committed while on duty in the vast German camp system. At her 1947 trial, she was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released early in 1957 after serving 10 years. In 1947, survivor Mirosława Odi stated in the Municipal Court of Oświęcim that "As regards the defendant Luise Danz, I can state that the defendant was an SS woman and that she was very good, because she helped the prisoners and was punished for doing so three times with a 14-day long incarceration in the bunker. I know that this defendant used to turn a blind eye to all transgressions on the part of the prisoners. That SS woman worked for some time in the kitchen and later in the clothes sorting room." In 1996, she was tried before a German court for the alleged murder of a teenager in the Malchow concentration camp. German doctors said the defendant was too old to be able to withstand court proceedings, so the charge was dropped. See also Female guards in Nazi concentration camps References 1917 births 2009 deaths Auschwitz concentration camp personnel Female guards in Nazi concentration camps German prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment Holocaust perpetrators in Poland Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp personnel Majdanek concentration camp personnel People convicted in the Auschwitz trial Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Poland German people convicted of crimes against humanity People extradited to Poland