Kaethe Becker

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Kaethe Becker was a female guard at several Nazi concentration camps during the last months of World War II.

[edit] Life

She was born as Kaethe Becker in Saarbruecken or Herrensohr, Germany on May 25, 1923.

[edit] Guarding

On August 9, 1944, she began her training as a camp guard at Flossenburg near Bayreuth, Germany. Soon after she was assigned to the Baendorf subcamp of Neuengamme, and later she arrived at Neuengamme.

In December 1944, Becker guarded a transport of women prisoners to the Zwodau subcamp of Flossenbürg in Czechoslovakia. As the camp was evacuated she went to another subcamp in Holleischen as an Aufseherin.

[edit] Escape

She fled the camp in early May 1945 and was never captured.