Arriving now at Lichtenburg was Gertrud Kröffges, a woman Langefeld probably even remembered from the workhouse. Kröffges had first been imprisoned at Brauweiler for failing to keep up payments to support her children. Now she had been sent on to Lichtenburg because she was ‘incapable of improvement’, as her police report noted, and because ‘due to her immoral and asocial way of life, the Volksgemeinschaft [the racially pure community] must be protected from her’. Even
