Herta Ehlert

Herta Ehlert (née Liess; 26 March 1905 – 4 April 1997) was a female guard at many Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.

During the war Ehlert was working as a bakery assistant until she was called for Schutzstaffel (SS) work by the Labor Exchange on 15 November 1939. She maintained that she was a conscript when she began working as a "novice" at Ravensbrück concentration camp. SS officers there noticed she was too lenient, polite and helpful to the prisoners, so the SS returned her to Ravensbrück to undergo another training course, this time by Dorothea Binz. During this time, Ehlert divorced her husband.

Ehlert was later moved to the Auschwitz concentration camp as an Aufseherin, where she oversaw women in Kommandos (slave labor groups). Ehlert later served as a guard at the Auschwitz subcamp in Rajsko, Poland,

Trials When the British Army liberated the Belsen camp, Ehlert was arrested and tried at the Belsen Trial. She was defendant #8 during the trial. While on trial, Ehlert was asked if she had committed theft, witnessed severe beatings, had committed murder and so on, to which she had denied most accusations. Ehlert was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Her sentence was reduced to 12 years, and Ehlert was released early on 7 May 1953.

After the war After the war, she remarried and lived under the name Herta Naumann. She died in April 1997, aged 92.