Bromberg-Ost

Bromberg-Ost or Konzentrationslager Bromberg-Ost , was the female subcamp of the German concentration camp Stutthof between 1944-1945, in the city of Bydgoszcz.

The direct order to set up subcamp Bromberg-Ost was issued on 12 September, 1944, by the superintendent of Stutthof concentration camp, Paul Werner Hoppe. The following day the first 300 women prisoners were sent there under the inspection of seven female overseers from Schutzstaffel (Defense Corps). From June 1944 until March 1945 the position of Oberaufseherin in Bromberg-Ost was held by Johanna Wisotzki, [] while among guards reassigned to Bromberg-Ost from Stutthof were the notoriously cruel aufseherinnen Ewa Paradies, Herta Bothe and Gerda Steinhoff who took part in selections of prisoners to be sent to the gas chambers.

A group of thirteen ex-officials and overseers of the Bromberg-Ost and Stutthof concentration camps were tried and convicted of crimes against humanity at the Stutthof Trial, the war crime tribunal held at Gdańsk, Poland, from April 25, 1946, to May 31, 1946. Eleven convicts were sentenced to death, while the remainder were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.

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* [http://journals.aol.com/rappcom/HERTABOTHEherlifeasafemaleNaziSS/entries/2004/03/16/herta-bothe-the-female-nazi-concentration-camp-guard-aufseherin-1st-part/197 Herta Bothe: the female Nazi concentration camp guard at Bromberg-Ost]
* [http://journals.aol.com/rappcom/HERTABOTHEherlifeasafemaleNaziSS/entries/2004/03/16/herta-bothe-the-female-nazi-concentration-camp-guard-aufseherin-1st-part/197 Herta Bothe, her life as an "SS" concentration camp guard]
* Benjamin B. Ferencz, [http://books.google.com/books?id=2T5CPGvAGB4C&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=bromberg+concentration+camp&source=web&ots=SuH5PN7DCd&sig=9hHKXv_ARKBio9djx2rGod45cP4 Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation]
* [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/WarCrime56.html Female guards in Nazi concentration camps. Gerda Steinhoff]