[3] At her trial, Bormann said she had joined the Auxiliary SS, on 1 March 1938, as a civilian employee[4][page needed] "to earn more money".

In March 1942, Bormann was one of a handful of women selected for guard duty at Auschwitz in occupied Poland.

[citation needed] In 1944, as German losses mounted, Bormann was transferred to the auxiliary camp at Hindenburg (present-day Zabrze, Poland) in Silesia.

[citation needed] Bormann was later incarcerated and interrogated by the British, then prosecuted at the Belsen Trial, which lasted from 17 September 1945 to 17 November 1945.

The court heard testimony relating to murders she had committed at Auschwitz and Belsen,[5] sometimes unleashing her "big bad wolfhound" German shepherd on helpless prisoners.