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Edda Scheer
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Edda Scheer was a female guard at a Nazi concentration camp from October 1944 until May 1945. Personal life Scheer was born in Graz, Austria in 1900. She had one male child and during World War II she worked at a factory in Hirtenberg, Austria. Camp work Recruited in September 1944 by the factory, she was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp in October 1944 to undergo Aufseherin guard training. It is listed in her file that indoctrination began at the camp on 1 October 1944. In November, after completing her training the SS sent Scheer as an Aufseherin to the Mauthausen subcamp located in Hirtenberg. She stayed at her post until the evacuation of the camp in April 1945. Soon after she was sent to the Hirtenberg sub-camp near Vienna, Austria. When the SS evacuated the camp in April 1945 Scheer went to Mauthausen. Later life After the war she talked about the main camp at Mauthausen, and said, "Every now and then drove the prisoners to the crematorium because one always had to die somewhere". She fled her post in late April or early May 1945. She was never prosecuted. 
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