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Dorothea Binz
1947May, 2

Dorothea Binz

Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)
Dorothea Binz (16 March 1920 – 2 May 1947) was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust. She was executed for war crimes.

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