Editing Dorothea Binz (section)

{{Short description|Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp (1920–1947)}}
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{{Infobox criminal
| name              = Dorothea Binz
| image             = Dorothea Binz.jpg
| alt               = "Dorothea Binz"
| caption           = 
| birth_name        = 
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1920|03|16|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Templin|Försterei Dusterlake]], [[Province of Brandenburg]], [[Weimar Republic]]
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1947|05|02|1920|03|16|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Hamelin Prison]], [[Hamelin]], [[Allied-occupied Germany]]
| death_cause       = [[Execution by hanging]]
| conviction_penalty = [[Capital punishment|Death]]
| conviction        = [[War crimes]]
| nationality       = German
| other_names       = 
| occupation        = Supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp
| years_active      = 
| known_for         = 
| notable_works     = 
| criminal_status   = [[Executed]]
| trial             = Hamburg Ravensbrück trials
| motive            = [[Nazism]]<br>[[Sadomasochism|Sadism]]
}}

'''Dorothea "Theodora" Binz''' (16 March 1920 – 2 May 1947)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Daniel Patrick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N_QkAQAAMAAJ |title=The Camp Women: The Female Auxiliaries who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System |date=2002 |publisher=Schiffer Pub. |isbn=978-0-7643-1444-5 |language=en}}</ref> was a [[Nazi]] German officer and supervisor at [[Ravensbrück concentration camp]] during the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]. She was known as one of the most brutal, ruthless and sadistic overseers in the Nazi system.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last1=Bartrop |first1=Paul R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PwTHEAAAQBAJ&dq=dorothea+binz&pg=PA1923 |title=Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators |last2=Grimm |first2=Eve E. |date=2019-01-11 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=979-8-216-12767-3 |pages=1923 |language=en}}</ref> She was executed for [[war crime]]s on 2 May 1947.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herbermann |first=Nanda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3JM3AdnmE18C&dq=dorothea+binz&pg=PA141 |title=The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women |date=2000 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-2920-7 |pages=141 |language=en}}</ref>