Elisabeth Marschall

Elisabeth Marschall (May 27, 1886 – May 3, 1947) was the head nurse (Oberschwester) at the Nazi Ravensbrück concentration camp and was executed after the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials.

Early life Marschall was born in 1886 and received her nursing education in Meiningen, passing the state exam in 1910. She joined the Nazi party because "Hitler could save Germany from its misery". overseeing medical experiments, and selecting around 800 prisoners to be shipped to Auschwitz. She worked with Adolf Winkelmann and Percival Treite, assisting in torture of prisoners and providing postoperative care to the subjects of their experimental operations.

Mil Le Coq, a French trained nurse, reported an incident with Marschall, recounted in The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of Nazi War Crimes:

Trial Marschall was arrested when the camp was liberated. At the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. On 2 May 1947, she was hanged by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint on the gallows in Hamelin Prison. Nearly 61 when she died, Marschall was the oldest female Nazi war criminal to be executed by the British occupation authorities.