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Fritz Suhren: Nazi Commandant of Ravensbrück, the Largest Concentration Camp for Women
Fritz Suhren was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious concentration camp commandants. As commandant of Ravensbrück—the largest concentration camp for women in the Third Reich—he presided over systematic cruelty, forced labour, executions, and horrific medical experiments.
A high-ranking SS officer, Suhren began his concentration camp career at Sachsenhausen before taking command of Ravensbrück in 1942. More than 130,000 women passed through the camp system, and tens of thousands did not survive. Prisoners endured starvation, beatings, forced labour, executions, and pseudo-medical experiments…
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