By Keyword:   Chapter PROLOGUE 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 EPILOGUE Or, Page Number: Click on an image to see a larger, more detailed picture.		1945: Liberation and Rebuilding  pg. 601    Known as "the SS woman without uniform," Hilde Lobauer embodied evil to the prisoners of Bergen-Belsen. A political prisoner of the Nazis, Lobauer chose to side with her captors, indulging her penchant for cruelty with a leather whip and a cane. Her sadism earned her a promotion to internee in charge of a section of the camp. Following the war, she was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to ten years in prison, though she was released in July 1950. Photo: AP/Wide World This survivor of Bergen-Belsen was found in agony at liberation. Internment in Hitler's camps had long-term--often calamitous--psychological and physical effects upon survivors. Photo: Yad Vashem By April 1945 the camp system at Bergen-Belsen had broken down completely beneath a flood of new inmates (for example, 28,000 arrivals in just ten days, April 3-14). Food rations were cut off, roll ceased to be called, and prisoners were left to their own devices. And yet some staff members remained at Bergen-Belsen to the end, such as these female SS guards, who had earned reputations for being as cruel as their male counterparts. Thousands of average Germans became active perpetrators of the Holocaust. Photo: AP/Wide World   1945: Liberation and Rebuilding  pg. 601  The Holocaust Chronicle © 2009 Publications International, Ltd.