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(Nurse) Hildegard Martha Lächert served as a guard in Nazi concentration camps such as Ravensbrück, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau, known for her extreme brutality and facing disciplinary actions. She fled Auschwitz in 1944 and later worked at detention camps in Italy and Austria. Post-war, she was arrested and tried for war crimes in Poland, receiving a 15-year prison sentence. Released in 1956, she briefly collaborated with intelligence agencies before being rearrested in 1979 and tried once more for her involvement in the atrocities at Majdanek.