The Faces of SS Feminine Compassion (b/w photo)

Female guards, including Herta Bothe (right) who was sentenced to 10 years, served 6 and Irma Grese (second right) who was hanged are seen after capture by British troops who liberated the camp. The Aufseherinnen were female guards in Nazi concentration camps during The Holocaust. Of the 55,000 guards who served in Nazi concentration camps, about 3,700 were women. In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbruck. The year after, the Nazis began conscripting women because of a guard shortage. The German title for this position, Aufseherinnen (plural Aufseherinnen) means female overseer or attendant.