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Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard and Nazi war criminal.
1919 - Born on the 16th of July in Vienna, Austria.
1939 - Picked from her job at a Heinkel aircraft plant in Berlin and sent to be trained at Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin.
1942-1944 - She was transferred to the Majdanek death and concentration camp outside Lublin, Poland.
- Promoted to assistant wardress under Oberaufseherin Elsa Erich along with five other women.
Killed many further women by stomping on them, earning her the nickname "The Stomping Mare."
1944 - Ordered back to Ravensbrück as Majdanek began evacuations and was promoted to head of a work detail and in late 1944 she was promoted to supervising wardress at the Genthin subcamp of Ravensbrück, located outside Berlin.
1945 - Braunsteiner fled the camp ahead of the Soviet Red Army.
1946 - Arrested by an Austrian court.
1947 - Imprisoned until 18th of April.
1848 - She was again arrested on 7th of April for assassination, infanticide and manslaughter at Ravensbrück.
1949 - Once again released on 22nd of November.
1963 - Immigrated to US (naturalized US citizen 1963).
1971 - Stripped of US citizenship for concealing criminal record from immigration authorities.
1973 - Expelled from US to West Germany (1st current or former US citizen extradited for war crimes).
1980 - Given a life sentence for her sadistic acts at the Majdanek camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
1999 - Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan died on 19th of April due to the complications of diabetes.
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