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2 February 1943. After the German surrender at Stalingrad, the tide of war turns. As Soviet forces advance westward, they uncover concentration camps, gas chambers, and mass graves — exposing the scale of Nazi crimes.
One of those who served within this system was Alice Orlowski.
Born in Berlin in 1903, Orlowski became an SS guard during the Second World War. After serving at Ravensbrück, she was transferred to Majdanek in 1942, where survivors described her as one of the camp’s most brutal guards. Beatings, torture, and selections for death marked her record. She later served at Płaszów and Auschwitz, where prisoners feared her violence.
As the Third Reich collapsed, she took part in the death marches of 1945. Captured after the war, she was tried during the Auschwitz Trial and sentenced to prison. Years later, she was arrested again in West Germany for crimes committed at Majdanek.
This is the story of a brutal Nazi female guard — and the long pursuit of accountability in the aftermath of the Third Reich.

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00:00Shortly after Orlovsky arrived at the camp, she gained a reputation as one of the most feared
00:04guards. She wore an SS men's uniform and a big pistol fixed to her hip. Orlovsky also carried
00:11on her a powerful whip with a hard handle, flexible at the end, with which she beat prisoners.
00:17According to Jan Wozniak, a political prisoner who served at the camp from February 1942
00:22till January 1943, Orlovsky would often approach her victims from the back by surprise. When she
00:29noticed someone break off work, even for a second, she immediately beat and tortured the victim.
00:34Wozniak witnessed firsthand as Orlovsky in some cases tortured prisoners to the point that they
00:39died from the blows that she dealt them. There were around 150 such cases over the said period.
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