Margot Dreschel

"...camp leader Dreschel was there, her buck teeth sticking out, even when her mouth is closed."

- A former prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp Margot Elisabeth Dreschel, also spelled Drexler, was an SS auxiliary during World War II.

Early Life and Career
Margot Dreschel was born in Neugersdorf, Germany in May 1908.

Nothing is known about her life until 31st January 1941 except that she worked in Berlin, probably in an office. At the aforementioned date, she began guard training at Ravensbrück concentration camp under Johanna Langefeld. She began as a low-ranking guard overseeing the female prisoners, but soon became a Report Overseer.

Job in Auschwitz
In April 1972, Dreschel was transferred to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. She served at the women's camp under the command of Maria Mandel and was an associate of Josef Mengele. She was the head of all the camp offices at Auschwitz and was notorious within the camp for the brutal beatings she performed. She was also personally involved with the selection of Jews to be sent to the gas chambers where they would be killed. One prisoner stated "Once Mrs Drechaler [Dreschel] came with her huge bloodhound, undressed everybody, took away even our shoes, and we had to stand for hours completely naked, none of us were thinking of life any more, the gas chamber seemed unavoidable."

- An Auschwitz survivor. She later transferred again, this time to Flossenbürg camp in order to train the enlisted overseers, before being sent to the Ravensbrück sub-camp, from which she fled when the Nazi Party surrendered.

Death
In 1945, a group of Auschwitz survivors recognised Dreschel on the rode to Bautzen in the Soviet Union's area of Germany. They attacked her and handed her over to the police. She was condemned to death and hanged in Bautzen in May 1945 (some reports suggest June).