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Elisabeth Lupka was a female guard in the Nazi concentration camp system who became notorious for her brutality at Auschwitz-Birkenau. After training at Ravensbrück, she arrived at Auschwitz in 1943, where she served as a block overseer and took part in the selection of prisoners for the gas chambers.
Survivors described Lupka as a cruel and sadistic guard who frequently beat women and children and used her position to terrorize inmates. During the final months of the war, she accompanied prisoners on the deadly evacuations from Auschwitz known as the Death Marches.
Following Germany's defeat, Lupka was arrested and brought before a court in Kraków. Found guilty of war crimes for her treatment of prisoners and her role in selections for extermination, she was sentenced to death and executed in January 1949.

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00:00Elisabeth Lupka also took part in selections of the female prisoners to be sent to the
00:04gas chambers.
00:05These selections occurred every week during general assemblies, when the female inmates
00:10had to strip naked, regardless of the weather.
00:12Lupka personally chose who was to stay and who was to be exterminated, and thus became
00:17the master of life and death of the Auschwitz prisoners.
00:21Whilst at Auschwitz-Birkenau, she had a reputation of a twisted sadist, famous for beating both
00:26females and children, often for no reason.
00:28Elisabeth Lupka was known for her cruelty, and she enjoyed torturing prisoners with a whip
00:34and then sending them to the gas chambers.
00:38Discover the full story on worldhistory.tv

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