Women guards of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp, including Herta Bothe (right) and Irma Grese (second right) are seen after capture by British troops who liberated the camp, April 1945.

Prosecutors in Hamburg are investigating a 93-year-old woman who has been accused of having supervised a “death march” away from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

These jail mugshots, seen for the first time in colour, are of the women who helped run Bergen-Belsen, the German concentration camp where 50,000 perished during the Second World War ...

George Rodger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Female SS soldiers fill a mass grave with corpses while under guard by British soldiers at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945.

The German Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British troops 70 years ago. ... Female guards, including Herta Bothe (right) – who was sentenced to 10 years, ...

Upon arriving at Bergen-Belsen, the Allies found a group of 77 SS men and women, who administered it, as well as some 2,000 Hungarian guards. They all answered to the commandant, Josef Kramer.

Female guards, like these with the SS at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, constituted up to 10 percent of concentration camps’ personnel.

-Bergen-Belsen had started life as a prisoner of war camp in 1940, ... Next come the loathsome trope of female guards. Irma Grese, whose fiendish cruelty was notorious, ...

Historians estimate that at least 50,000 people died in Bergen-Belsen — most of them Jewish prisoners, including 16-year-old Anne Frank and her older sister, Margot, as well as members of the ...

Prosecutors in Hamburg are investigating a 93-year-old woman who has been accused of having supervised a “death march” away from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.