Erika Bergmann was a Nazi

Nazism

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 guard in at least three slave labor camps during World War II

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. She was born in Germany

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In 1943 Bergmann arrived at Ravensbrück

Ravensbrück concentration camp

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 where she received her initial training and first assignment. In late 1944 she went to the Neu Rohlau subcamp of Flossenbürg

Flossenbürg concentration camp

Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the Schutzstaffel Economic-Administrative Main Office at Flossenbürg, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Czechoslovakia. Until its liberation in April 1945, more than 96,000 prisoners...

 located near Chemnitz

Chemnitz

Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...

, Germany

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Bergmann soon moved on to the Oederan

Oederan

Oederan is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.- Geography :Oederan is situated 14 km southwest of Freiberg, 17 km east of Chemnitz and about 50km west of Dresden....

 subcamp of Flossenbürg where she served out the rest of the war, after which an East German court found her guilty of murder and sentenced her to life imprisonment. Her trial was held in Neubrandenburg

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 in November 1955. She was accused of cruelty towards prisoners using a whip and to have set a dog on prisoners (killing six of them) amongst other crimes. After the fall of the Berlin Wall

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 in 1989, Bergmann was still in prison in Hoheneck alongside Ulla Jürß, another female Nazi

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guard. They both petitioned for mercy and were released on probation in May 1991.