Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
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Jenny Wanda Barkmann was an SS-official at Nazi concentration camps. She is believed to have been born in 1921 and may have spent her childhood in Hamburg, Germany.
In 1944 she became an Aufseherin in the Stutthof SK-III women's camp. She brutalized prisoners, some to death. She also selected women and children for the gas chambers. She was so severe the women prisoners nicknamed her the Beautiful Specter.
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Barkmann fled Stutthof as the Soviets approached. She was arrested in May 1945 while trying to leave a train station in Gdansk. She was incarcerated and was a defendant in the Stutthof Trial. She is said to have flirted with her prison guards and was apparently seen arranging her hair while hearing testimony. She was found guilty, after which she declared, "Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short." She was publicly hanged on July 4, 1946, on Biskupia Gorka Hill near Gdansk.Template:Lived