Anna Klein (camp warden)
Anna Friederike Mathilde Klein was a Nazi German concentration camp guard and chief warden at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was tried for her role in the Holocaust, but acquitted due to lack of evidence.
Atrocities in Nazi concentration camps
On 14 September 1939, she arrived in Ravensbrück. In August 1943, she was promoted to the highest rank of Chef Oberaufseherin, with control and the responsibility of monitoring all of Ravensbrück camp, including [Slave Labor in Nazi Party|Nazi Concentration Camps|slave labor], medical experiments, and death of inmates, the majority of whom were female political prisoners.Klein reached the highest rank that the Nazis allowed a woman in a camp; she received a higher salary, better housing, better food, the best clothes, more power, and this hierarchical title of honour. She oversaw all guards at Ravensbrück until the SS assigned her to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in September 1944. There, she served as a supervisor, with the same rank until the liberation of the camp by the Allies in April 1945.