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Anna Fest
Anna Fest was a little known member of the Nazi Regime.
Anna Fest was born sometime in 1920 in Sonnenfeld , Germany. In 1944 she began her training as an Aufseherin in Ravensbruck. In November 1944, Anna was one of the few guards who was selected to serve at the Allendorf subcamp of Buchenwald, near Leipzig, Germany. Soon after, Anna Fest was assigned to the Soemmerda subcamp of Buchenwald. She fled there in April 1945. In 1947, a US War Crimes Tribunal placed Anna Fest on trial for crimes in the three camps. She was later acquitted of all charges and released. She later wrote a portion of the book, "Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich" recalling her story as a camp guard, and as a woman under the Nazi Regime.
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