Dorothea Binz tours the grounds on her bicycle, her black cape aflutter. The prisoners know she arrived at Ravensbrück just a few years ago, when she was nineteen, and worked briefly as a maid. Her sadism was especially valued, and she was swiftly promoted to her current position. One of the prisoners at Ravensbrück writes a poem: “A beautiful blonde” You are so beautiful, With shining eyes and locks of hair, But if we could, we would tear the insides of your soul And strangle your bloodthirsty heart. Do you remember the girl you were whipping, Jacqueline? How you stomped on Wanda, the Polish
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