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Gerda Steinhoff

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Military Personnel

The Resume

    (January 29, 1922-July 4, 1946)
    Born in Danzig-Langfuhr, Germany (now Wrzeszcz, Poland)
    Guard at Stutthof concentration camp
    Promoted to camp overseer
    Arrested by Polish officials and tried for war crimes
    Sentenced to death by hanging

Why she might be annoying:

    She had a reputation for ruthlessness.
    She selected prisoners to be sent to the gas chambers.
    She and several other defendants spent much of the trial joking with each other.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She worked as a cook before answering a call by the Nazis for new guards.
    She and other camp guards sentenced to death were executed publicly by being placed with nooses around their necks on the back of military trucks which then drove off to leave them hanging.
    Due to the short drop, she and the other condemned guards strangled to death.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 20 Votes: 95.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 86 Votes: 54.65% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 21 Votes: 38.10% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 40 Votes: 47.50% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 40 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 78 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 27 Votes: 51.85% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 1002 Votes: 88.72% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 283 Votes: 81.63% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 92 Votes: 68.48% Annoying