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Maria Aichele was a female guard at two Nazi camps during the Second World War .

Maria Aichele was born Maria Schweizer on September 19 , 1915 , in Geislingen , Germany , near the French border.

In 1944 she applied at the Geislingen subcamp office to become a female guard. The Nazis sent her to Natzweiler to be trained. (Only a handful of female guards served there). Maria was trained there and known in the camp for her abuse and sadism.

Later she was sent as an Aufseherin to Geislingen. There she continued her abuse towards the camp's female prisoners, most of them Hungarian Jewish women from Auschwitz - Birkenau . In late March 1945, with the arrival of the American Army, Geislingen was evacuated. Maria did not accompany the transports of women to other camps, but stayed in her hometown of Geislingen.

She was never arrested by the US Army, nor the French Army for her crimes in the two camps.