Erna petri biography

Horst Petri (March 18, – December 12, ) and Erna Petri (May 30, – July ) were married Nazi war criminals during World War II.

Horst Petri and Erna Petri were married Nazi war criminals during World War II.

Examine how Nazi Germany's army targeted both the Polish army and the people of Poland as it waged war.

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Erna Petri

Surname	Petri
Given Name	Erna
Country	Germany
Category	Other
Gender	Female

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseErna Kürbs Petri was married to SS officer Horst Petri. Her husband was posted to L'viv (German: Lemberg), Ukraine during the German occupation of Ukraine. As the manager of the family's estate of Grzenda, she mistreated the forced laborers working on the farm and had delivered several kvinna Ukrainian workers to a concentration camp. In , she killed four Jewish men who escaped from a nearby forced labor camp onto her property. Later, she discovered six Jewish boys aged 6 to 12 on her estate and found that they had escaped from a utbildning heading for Sobibor koncentration Camp; she took them home, fed them, and then executed them in the back of the neck with a pistol in nearby woods. In , the couple was found skyldig by the government of East Germany; Horst Petri was sentenced to death and Erna Petri was given a

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More than Accomplices: The Crimes of Hitler’s Female SS

I did not want to stand behind the SS men. I wanted to show them that I, as a woman could conduct myself like a man &#; So I shot four Jews and six Jewish children. I wanted to prove myself to the men.
&#; Excerpt from the interrogation of Erna Petri

The names most commonly associated with the Holocaust are undoubtedly Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Eichmann, and, of course, Adolph Hitler himself. Modern society tends to attribute the worst crimes of Nazi Germany to the murderous SS and their collaborators. The notoriety of these famous faces makes it seem that men were solely responsible for the Holocaust. Although an elite group of men may have orchestrated the Holocaust, regular women were also essential in implementing and carrying out its murderous policies. Yet, the names Pauline Kneissler, Liselotte Meier, and Erna Petri do not instill the same level of anger, disdain, or even recognition de

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Erna Petri, homemaker and wife of a senior SS officer, returned home from shopping one day and saw six frightened children, nearly naked, huddled on the side of a country road. She had heard that a number of Jews had escaped from a train on the way to the death camps, and realized she had come across some of the lot: She gathered the frightened children, ages six to 12, took them into her home, reassured and fed them, then she led them into the woods, put them in a line and shot each one in the nape of the neck.

This phenomenon of female murderers who took an active part in the attempted annihilation of Jews is at the center of a new book, "Hitler’s Furies,” which was written by Holocaust researcher Professor Wendy Lower, and examines the stories of the tens of thousands of women who took part in the crimes of the Third Reich during the years of Nazi rule in Germany and Europe during World War II.

Some of the findings of the study by Professor Lower were