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Eleonore Polsleitner (born 2 October 1920) was a female guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 6 relations: Austria, Female guards in Nazi concentration camps, Jane Bernigau, Mauthausen concentration camp, Unterach am Attersee, War crime.

  2. Mauthausen concentration camp personnel
  3. People from Vöcklabruck District

Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Female guards in Nazi concentration camps

Aufseherin (pl. Aufseherinnen) was the position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps.

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Jane Bernigau

Gerda "Jane" Bernigau (5 October 1908 – 23 March 1992) was an SS Oberaufseherin in Nazi concentration camps before and during World War II. Eleonore Poelsleitner and Jane Bernigau are female guards in Nazi concentration camps and Mauthausen concentration camp personnel.

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Mauthausen concentration camp

Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria.

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Unterach am Attersee

Unterach is a village in the Austria state of Upper Austria on the southern shore of lake Attersee in the centre of the Salzkammergut region.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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See also

Mauthausen concentration camp personnel

People from Vöcklabruck District

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleonore_Poelsleitner