Angelika Grass was a female overseer at three concentration camps during World War II.
Grass (or Gras or Graß) was born in Berlin, Germany on February 10, 1922. In 1944 she volunteered for camp duty, so the SS sent her to Flossenbürg concentration camp to undergo guard training. Her immediate role was an Aufseherin, or a low ranking female guard.
In the summer of 1944 she was selected to be a guard at the newly opened Helmstedt Beendorf III subcamp. There she oversaw 3,000 female prisoners, many of them Jewish women from Auschwitz, Flossenbürg, Neuengamme, and Ravensbrück.
In 1945, Grass was one of several guards to be assigned to Neuengamme camp. There she served as overseer until its evacuation in April 1945. It is unknown if she was one of the thirteen female overseers who guarded on three ships full of prisoners in Lübeck, Germany.
The British bombed those ships (Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland IV) on May 3, 1945, killing 7 to 8,000 inmates, and half of the SS guards on board. It is not known if Grass survived this and if she's still alive. Like many former Nazis some believe they have spotted her in Argentina.
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