[7] At Lichtenburg, Mandl worked under Kommandant Max Kögl, who influenced her sadistic behavior,[8] and Oberaufseherin Johanna Langefeld.

[10] This is in addition to an incident in which Mandl repeatedly struck a prisoner with a key until they were unconscious, then dragged her by her knees across the camp and into a solitary cell.

In response to the survivor's assertion that she is "too pretty to play supervisor", Mandl replied, "No, I swore the oath to the Führer, I'm staying.

[14] Mandl became known among Ravensbrück prisoners for targeting women with curly hair, beating them in the head, kicking them to the ground, or shaving off their curls.

Survivor Maria Bielicka [pl] has described in an incident in which Mandl kicked a Jewish woman to death during roll-call—one of the many fatal beatings that took place at the camp.

[20] Mandl promoted Irma Grese to head of the Hungarian women's camp at Birkenau[21] and appointed Therese Brandl as her private secretary.

[22] According to survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Mandl would often stand at the gate into Birkenau, waiting for an inmate to turn and look at her; those who did were taken out of the lines and never heard from again.

She signed inmate lists, sending thousands of women and children to their deaths in the gas chambers at Auschwitz I and II.

[24] Regina Lebensfeldová-Hofstädterová, a typist in Auschwitz's Political Department, stated in her testimony that Mandl called prisoners mistbienen (dung bees).

In April 1943, Mandl and Hauptsturmführer Franz Hössler formed the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz to accompany roll calls, executions, selections, and transports.

Mandl personally selected the first conductor, Polish music teacher Zofia Czajkowska, and later arranged for an accomplished Austrian violinist named Alma Rosé to be transferred into Auschwitz so that she could lead the women’s orchestra.

Around this time, she was assigned to the Mühldorf subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp, and Elisabeth Volkenrath was appointed head of Auschwitz, which was liberated in late January 1945.

The woman who condemned female prisoners to death with a single gesture now cannot control her accelerated breathing, unnatural blush and nervous twitching of her entire face.

[22] On 22 December 1947, Mandl was tried by Poland's Supreme National Tribunal in the Auschwitz trial, found guilty of crimes against humanity[a] and sentenced to death by hanging.

She stated that the last time she saw the two German war criminals, after they had been sentenced to death and shortly before their executions took place, they both asked her for forgiveness.