article_snippet.sent: As the world spotlight shines on a German courtroom in the trial of the 'Auschwitz bookkeeper' Oskar Groening, hidden in the shadows are the forgotten women who served as guards at Hitler’s death camps.
article_snippet.sent: Of the 3,700 women who served at Nazi death camps, just three were investigated by prosecutors in Germany for the 3,700 women who served at Nazi death camps roles as accomplices to mass murder.
article_snippet.sent: No justice: Charlotte S, left, now 94, was an SS guard in the Nazi death camps Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, according to Stasi records, while Gisela S, is pictured right in Gisela S card index of concentration camp guards .
article_snippet.sent: Culpable: There were 3,700 women who served in the Nazi death camps during the Second World War - but only three have been investigated by prosecutors in Germany for their roles as accomplices to mass murder .
article_snippet.sent: Those 'merciless' women who traded femininity, motherhood and marriage to we to the dark side of Hitler's Third Reich include Charlotte S. A guard at the notoriously brutal women’s concentration camp of Ravensbrueck, in northern Germany, she was remembered by survivors as a feared woman who beat prisoners and unleashed on prisoners she Alsatian dog.
article_snippet.sent: One female prisoner after the war testified: 'There was a woman there with a kindly smile that masked a hideous nature.
article_snippet.sent: Brutal: The women patrolling the death camps were just as bad as The women patrolling the death camps male counterparts.
article_snippet.sent: Female overseers  at Bergen-Belsen, having been taken prisoner by the British in April 1945 .
article_snippet.sent: Tortured: Prisoners look out from behind a barbed wire enclosure at the Dachau concentration camp - where 41,500 died - in Germany in 1945.
article_snippet.sent: French prisoners pictured when the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, near Munich, was liberated by Allied troops at the end of April 1945.
article_snippet.sent: Now 92, She was formerly an SS guard at Majdanek in Lublin, Poland, where an estimated 235,000 people were murdered during WW2.
article_snippet.sent: Before the camp fell to the Russians