Marschall, Elisabeth, born 27-05-1886 in Meiningsen, Kreis Soest, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 
Germany, received her nursing education in Meiningen, passing the state exam in 1910. She joined the Nazi party 
because “ Adolf Hitler could save Germany from its misery”.
Marschall worked as Oberschwester/Head nurse at Ravensbrück concentration camp 
from April 1943 until the camps liberation, where her duties included selecting prisoners for execution, overseeing medical experiments, and selecting around 800 prisoners to be shipped to Auschwitz 
. She worked with Dr. Adolf Ludwig Winkelmann and Dr. Percival SS Hauptsturmführer Adolf “Percy”Treite, 
assisting in torture of prisoners and providing postoperative care to the subjects of their experimental operations. Adolf Winkelmann died on 01-02-1947, age 59, of the consequences of a heart attack during the first of the seven Ravensbrück trials in Hamburg. Despite some doubts, the court found him guilty, but no death sentence was passed.
SS Obersturmführer Percival Treife, on 03-02-1947, was sentenced to death by a British military court in Hamburg for his crimes during the first of seven Ravensbrück trials. He preempted the scheduled execution of his sentence in Hamelin on 08-04-1947, age 35, by committing suicide with poison. At 12:50 p.m., he was found dying in the Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel penitentiary, and his death was pronounced at 1:35 p.m.
A survivor who worked as a prisoner-nurse testified that Marschall had loaded a group of 50 women with new-born infants onto a cart and did not provide them with food, milk or water. All of the prisoners passed away. Another witness testified that “I have seen schwester (nurse) Lisa beating sick women without any reason at all.]
Mil Le Coq, a French trained nurse, reported an incident with Marschall, recounted in The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of Nazi War Crimes:
She “passed through the hospital courtyard one day on her way to the laboratory and saw five wheelbarrows containing … five Jewesses – the triangle on their dresses indicated that… Mil Le Coq went to the barrows and touched the bodies to see if whether they were alive and if anything could be done for them. They were alive. At that moment Marschall came on to the scene and, shouting across the yard, forbade the French girl to do anything to help the women. She returned to her block and bought two friends … but Marshcall appeared and drove them away. The barrows remained there all night and by the morning the three survivors were dead.”
During World War II, Ravensbrück 
was a concentration camp for women, located near Fürstenberg/Havel, eighty-five kilometers north of Berlin. Ravensbrück is number 1202 on the official German list of concentration camps.Between 1939 and 1945, 132,000 women and children, 20,000 men, and 1,000 teenage girls were registered as prisoners.The prisoners, including Roma, Sinti, political prisoners, resistance fighters, and Jews, came from forty countries. Nine hundred Dutch women were imprisoned, including seventy-five of Jewish descent. The women were used as forced laborers.Between 20,000 and 30,000 prisoners died. Other sources mention 90,000 to 92,000 victims. They died from execution, starvation, disease, or as a result of medical experiments.
On April 27 and 28, 1945, the SS marched all men and women still able to walk northwest on the infamous death marches. 
Three thousand sick and weakened women and three hundred men remained behind in the camp. As the death march approached the Red Army, several prisoners managed to escape, while the SS shot others. Thousands of bodies lay along the route.On 30-04-1945, the camp was liberated by the Soviet army. 
That same day, the Russians found and liberated the survivors of the death march. After the liberation, the suffering was still ongoing for many; countless sick people died in the weeks that followed; others suffered the consequences of their stay in this camp for the rest of their lives.
Death and burial ground of Marschall, Elisabeth.
Marschall was arrested when the camp was liberated. At the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials, 
she was found guilty and sentenced to death. On 02-05-1947, age 60, Marschall was hanged by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint 
on the gallows in Hamelin Prison. 
Albert Pierrepoint, 87 (30-03-1905 – 10-07-1992) was a long-serving hangman in England. He executed at least 400 people, including William Joyce (“Lord Haw-Haw”) Lord Haw Haw, American and Propagandist for the Germans in WW II. 
and John Amery. 
John Amery (14-03-1912 – 19-12- 1945) was a British fascist and Nazi collaborator during World War II. He was the originator of the British Free Corps, a volunteer Waffen-SS unit composed of former British and Dominion prisoners of war.
In Germany and Austria, after the Second World War, Pierrepoint executed some 200 people who had been convicted of war crimes. In England, Pierrepoint hanged Timothy John Evans 
for a crime committed by his neighbour John Reginald Halliday Christie, 
who was also hanged by Pierrepoint. Timothy John Evans (20-11-1924 – 09-03-1950) was a Welsh lorry driver who was wrongfully accused of murdering his wife Beryl and infant daughter Geraldine at their residence in Notting Hill, London. In January 1950, Evans was tried and convicted of the murder of his daughter, and on 9 March he was executed by hanging.
Christie was a British serial killer who strangled and murdered all of his female victims at his residence at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London, England. He even sent an innocent mentally impaired man, Timothy Evans, to his own execution on 09-03-1950 for killing his pregnant wife, Beryl and their infant daughter, Geraldine Evans. Timothy falsely confessed to the crimes himself. He was convicted and executed for his crimes. John Christie murdered 8 women including his own wife, Ethel.
Nearly 61 when Elisabeth Marschall died, Marschall was the oldest female Nazi war criminal to be executed by the British occupation authorities. Elisabeth Marschall is first buried in the prison courtyard in Hameln until 1954 when all were moved to the Am Wehl Cemetery nearby in 1986 and is now a grass field, with markers.
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