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Hermine Braunsteiner on trial for war crimes, Düsseldorf, West Germany, 1975. Braunsteiner (1919-1999) was a female guard at the Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps. After the end of the Second World War an Austrian court convicted her of torture, maltreatment of prisoners and crimes against humanity and against human dignity at Ravensbrück and sentenced to three years imprisonment. She was released a year early and granted immunity against further prosecution in Austria. In 1958 she married an American and emigrated to Canada and then the US. She was tracked down by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and in 1973 became the first war crimes suspect to be extradited from the US to Europe to stand trial. Alongside 15 other defendants, Braunsteiner was tried for crimes at Majdanek in what became Germany's longest and most expensive trial. When the trial ended in 1981 she was found guilty and received a life sentence, but was released in 1996 due to poor health. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/Keystone Archives)