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Dorothea Binz

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Military Personnel

The Resume

    (March 16, 1920-May 2, 1947)
    Born in Forsterei Dusterlake, Germany
    SS Supervisor at Ravensbruck concentration camp (1943-45)

Why she might be annoying:

    She joined the SS because she disliked her previous job as a maid.
    She would beat, whip and shoot the women inmates of the concentration camp.
    After she spotted a female inmate on a work detail who she felt was slacking off, she bludgeoned the prisoner to death with a pickaxe, then cleaned off her boots with the dead woman's skirt.
    A camp survivor said, 'Her eyes shone when she beat people.'
    She trained over a hundred other female concentration camp guards, instilling in many a similar degree of sadism.
    She and her boyfriend, a married SS officer, would go on romantic walks around the camp to watch women being flogged.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was described as poorly educated and 'highly susceptible' to Nazi propaganda.
    She was so terrified upon being arrested by the Allies that she had to be carried into prison because her legs shook too much for her to walk.
    She was convicted of war crimes and hanged.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 200 Votes: 22.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 90.91% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 101 Votes: 49.50% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 30 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 51 Votes: 52.94% Annoying