SS-Gefolge was the designation for the group of female civilian employees of the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany. SS-Gefolge members were only allowed to...

to join the SS[citation needed] but were allowed into the SS-Gefolge and many served within the concentration camps. Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally...

women to show their love for the Reich and join the SS-Gefolge ("SS-Retinue", a Schutzstaffel (SS) support and service organisation for women). Additionally...

father the same year, as he had been vehemently opposed to her joining the SS-Gefolge. He expelled her from his house. Grese participated in prisoner selections...

the Holocaust. On 15 November 1939, Ehlert was called for Schutzstaffel (SS) work by the Labor Exchange, and began working at Ravensbrück concentration...

until 1941, when she became an agriculture assistant in Danzig. In 1944, the SS needed more guards at the nearby Stutthof concentration camp, and Becker was...

female SS members and 16 male SS members. Although the SS was an all-male organisation, women were able to enlist as members of the SS-Gefolge, a form...

German Red Cross or other voluntary organizations The SS-Gefolge was the women's wing of the men's SS, but in contrast it was only confined to voluntary...

at Ravensbrück. At Auschwitz, she met SS-Rottenführer Heinz Volkenrath, who had worked there since 1941 as SS-Blockführer. The couple married in 1943...

maint: location missing publisher (link) Erpel, Simone (2007). "Im Gefolge der SS": Aufseherinnen des Frauen-Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrück. Berlin...