Vera Salvequart – for war crimes.
Vera Salvequart – for war crimes. 28 year old Vera Salvequart had not been an SS guard, but rather a prisoner herself in Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was born on the 26th of November 1919 in Czechoslovakia of Czech and German parents and had trained as a nurse. According to her she served 10 months in Flossenberg for refusing to reveal to the Gestapo the identity of her Jewish boyfriend in 1941 and then two years commencing in 1942 for a similar offence, being released in April 1944. She was sent to Ravensbrück on the 6th of December 1944 after being arrested for helping five detained officers escape. Here she became a Kapo and worked as a nurse in the camp's hospital wing. In February 1945, she was said to have administered poison in the form of a sleeping powder to some 50 of the patients, of whom 12 died. Salvequart was among 16 members of the staff who were arrested and were tried between the 5th of December 1946 and the 3rd of February 1947 by a British military ...