She consorted with fighter pilots Colonel General Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force, Major General Adolf Galland, etc.
Carmen Maria Mory (July 2, 1906 in Bern, Switzerland; died April 9, 1947 in Hamburg, Germany) was a Swiss Gestapo agent. During World War II, she was a prisoner and block elder at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Carmen Mory was born in Bern in 1906 and grew up in Adelboden. Her father was a doctor, her mother had Filipino roots and died under mysterious circumstances when Carmen was four years old. By her own account, Mory lived in Switzerland, France, England and the Netherlands. From 1924, she traveled to European countries.
She began studying singing and music in Munich in 1928, but dropped out in 1932. She had to give up her original career aspirations as a singer after a tonsil operation. She then went to Berlin to work as a journalist. She was attracted by the glamour and power of the National Socialists and in 1934 became an agent for the Gestapo, for whom she spied on German emigrants in Paris, among other places.
She was arrested in Paris in November 1938 and sentenced to death by the French for espionage in April 1940, but was pardoned to prison by French President Lebrun on June 6, 1940. During the German invasion, she managed to escape back to the German Reich. There she again worked for the Gestapo, but after some time she was arrested under the accusation that she was a double agent, and in February 1941 she was sent to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp.
At Ravensbrück, she rose to the position of block elder and was assigned as a prisoner nurse in Block 10 (TB patients and confused women). The testimonies about her behavior as a block elder are contradictory. On the one hand, she was described as the "most feared woman in Ravensbrück," on the other hand, she is said to have used her influence to ease the situation of the prisoners. She was at times close friends with Anne Spoerry, who was also a prisoner. In Ravensbrück, she provided informer services for Ludwig Ramdohr, a member of the camp Gestapo. She was also referred to as the "Black Angel of Ravensbrück."
After the war, Mory was accused by former fellow prisoners of having participated in selections and of having committed murder herself in 60 cases. In the first Ravensbrück trial in Hamburg, she was sentenced to death on February 3, 1947. She avoided execution by committing suicide, cutting both of her arteries with a razor blade.
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