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Irmtraut was a special SS woman at two concentration camps during the last year of World War II.
Irmtraut Sell was born on May 20, 1923 in Kyritz, Germany. She later married and became Irmtraut Marbach. In the summer of 1944 Irmtraut applied to be a member of the SS. Sometime in Septmeber 1944 she was accepted into a branch of the SS called the Totenkopfverbande (Death Head's Units) and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. There she was known in the camp for her unyielding abuse to he women prisoners. In late 1944, Irmtraut was assigned as an Aufseherin, and a member of the Death Head's Units to the Allendorf subcamp located near Magdeburg, Germany. There she forced the camps women to work in horrid conditions and under heavy abuse. In April 1945 Irmtraut fled the camp and went to her hometown, Kyritz. She was never apprehended or prosecuted for her crimes in the two camps in which she worked.
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