Page "Natzweiler-Struthof" Paragraph 9

Strenuous work, medical experiments, poor nutrition and mistreatment by the SS guards resulted in a documented 4, 431 deaths.

Among those who died here were four female SOE agents executed together on July 6, 1944: Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Andrée Borrel and Sonya Olschanezky.

Since the female prisoner population in the camp was small, only seven SS women served in Natzweiler Struthof camp ( compared to more than 600 SS men ), and 15 in the Natzweiler complex of subcamps.

The main duty of the female supervisors in Natzweiler was to guard the few women who came to the camp for medical experiments or to be executed.

The camp also trained several female guards who went to the Geisenheim and Geislingen subcamps in western Germany.