Editing Dorothea Binz (section)

==Capture and execution==
Binz fled Ravensbrück during the [[Death marches during the Holocaust|death march]], but was captured on 3 May 1945 by the British in [[Hamburg]],<ref name=":4" /> and incarcerated in the [[Recklinghausen]] camp (formerly a [[Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald]] subcamp). She was tried for war crimes with other SS personnel by a British court in the [[Hamburg Ravensbrück trials|Ravensbrück trial]] in 1947.<ref name=":5" /> Binz was found guilty and sentenced to death.<ref name=":4" /> Hours after her death sentence was confirmed in April 1947, she attempted to kill herself by slashing her wrists. However, officials intervened before she could bleed to death.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1947-04-18 |title=Flucht in den Tod |language=de |magazine=[[Der Spiegel]] |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/flucht-in-den-tod-a-db1b3c03-0002-0001-0000-000041121764 |access-date=2022-09-08 |issn=2195-1349}}</ref>

Binz was subsequently [[Hanging#Long drop|hanged]] at [[Hamelin Prison]] by British executioner [[Albert Pierrepoint]] on 2 May 1947.<ref name=":2" /> Her last words were to Pierrepoint, and she supposedly said to him: "I hope you will not think we are all evil people" just before her death.<ref name=":4" />