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OCR: During PlitM War IT, there were more than 000 uniformed women guards in the German concentration camp system. While some of these women were volunteers, most of them had been drafted by the government as laborers and involuntarily ass gned concentration camps or death camps guard and supervise the rapidiy-expanding numbers of female inmates Ravensbrueck concentration camp for women where Silvia was held, empioyed 550 female SS officers It became a training facility where SS women were taught to be harsh and merciless toward the prisoners in their care Some of the most infamous female guards at Auschwitz and the other camps received their training at Ravensi brueck. Female officers in the SS were themselves discriminated against and mistreated. They received iess compensation than the and t ...