Margarete Rabe

Margarete Maria Rabe (born 2 October 1923) was a guard at two concentration camps from November 1944 until April 1945.

In late November or early December 1944, Rabe was one of several guards to be posted to the Uckermark camp under Ruth Closius.

There the young SS Aufseherin helped select women and children for the gas chambers, and also took part in murders and torture (one survivor commented that the SS women in Uckermark were the most brutal of any in the Ravensbrück complex).

At the third Ravensbrück Trial in April 1948, the British court handed her a sentence of life imprisonment.

Rabe was released from prison on 26 February 1954, having served five years and ten months in confinement.