Blood-Sister Pia

[servusalle]

Here a OEIGINAL Foto Reichsparteitag Nürnberg 1938

This women was the highest decorated Woman with the Blood-Medal
she was believed to belong to the SS

[servusalle]

Here a OEIGINAL Foto Reichsparteitag Nürnberg 1938

This women was the highest decorated Woman with the Blood-Medal
she was believed to belong to the SS

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[Robin Lumsden]

Baur, Eleonore (Sister Pia)

Mother of the later Cdr. of NSDAP-Reichshauptamt, Wilhelm Baur. 1914-1918 nurse in the army medical service. Member of Freikorps "Oberland". 1919 joined DAP (No. 511). 14.10.1922-15.10.1922: Took part in "German Day" in Coburg. Nurse in the SA-sick bay. 09.11.1923: took part in Putsch in München. 09.11.1933: Blutorden (No. 25). 1934-1945 public welfare sister in the Reichsfuehrung-SS. Honorary senior sister of the NS-Nurses Organisation (NS-Schwesternschaft). 1945-1959: interned. Died 1981.

[Robin Lumsden]

Better photo..........

[max history]

I don't think Servusalle's photo shows Schwester Pia (Eleonore Baur). The woman in his photo is too young and is much prettier than Baur. Also, she has a totally different shaped nose.
Max.

[Robin Lumsden]

I don't think Servusalle's photo shows Schwester Pia (Eleonore Baur). The woman in his photo is too young and is much prettier than Baur. Also, she has a totally different shaped nose.
Max.

And no gongs either.

[DocumentsGuy]

Did she also receive the NSDAP Golden Party Badge? Seems like with a background like hers she would have been a recipient.

1945-1959: interned. Died 1981.[/quote]

Robin,
She was imprisoned for 14 years(!) For what?
Regards,
Fred

[Robin Lumsden]

Robin, She was imprisoned for 14 years(!) For what?
Regards,
Fred

During the war, she ran the Muenchen-Schwabing labour camp, a sub-camp of Dachau.

She was released from imprisonment in 1950, but spent the next few years in and out of detention because of various legal processes.

[max history]

During the war, she ran the Muenchen-Schwabing labour camp, a sub-camp of Dachau.

Robin,
That's news to me. Please expand on this with sources. Very interesting.
Max.

[Robin Lumsden]

Robin,
That's news to me. Please expand on this with sources. Very interesting.
Max.

Here you go, Max.

Happy New Year!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BC...ing_labor_camp

[max history]

Here you go, Max.

Happy New Year!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BC...ing_labor_camp

Robin,
Thanks....very interesting reading, but.......
Wikipedia is renowned for non-academic bull****, so I read with tongue in cheek. I'd like to see a more academic source. To suggest that Eleonore Baur was entrusted with the running of a sub-camp of Dachau is, to be honest, a little far fetched. I'm not saying it's crap (really!), but more acceptable academic evidence might be a help.
I was under the impression that Baur was interned (not imprisoned) for several years because she remained a dyed-in-the wool National Socialist until her death. Like her or not, one has to admire her tenacity.
Happy New Year to all in the "heathen" north!
Max.

[Wim Vangossum]

Nice to see a picture on a name I already have read about. I think she received the Golden party badge as well.

Regards, Theo

[Robin Lumsden]

.........but more acceptable academic evidence might be a help.

Here you go, Max.

These were the sources...............................

Sources
This subcamp is listed in ITS, Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter dem Reichsführer SS (1933-1945), 2 vols. (Arolsen, 1979), I: 87. Sabine Schalm published an article on the career of Eleonore Baur and her prisoner commando: “Schwester Pia: Karriere einer Strassenbahnbekanntschaft - Fürsorge der Waffen SS im Konzentrationslager Dachau,” in: Frauen als Täterinnen im Nationalsozialismus, Bd. 2, Protokollband der Fachtagung am 16. und 17. September 2005 in Bernburg, ed. V. Viola Schubert-Lenhardt, pp. 52-67. Hans Holzhaider published an article on Eleonore Baur's personality, entitled “Schwester Pia,” DaH 10 (1994): 101-114. There is also a contribution by the Geschichtswerkstatt Neuhausen, “Schwester Pia - Ein Leben für Deutschland?” Landeshauptstadt München, Frauenleben in München / Lesebuch zur Geschichte des Muenchner Alltags; Geschichtswettbewerb 1992 (München, 1993), pp. 125-130. An older contribution is Johann Hess, “Braune Schwester Pia,” Eugen Weiler (ed.), Die Geistlichkeit in Dachau (Mödling: Missionsdruckerei St. Gabriel, 1971).
The relevant archival sources on the München-Schwabing subcamp and Eleonore Baur are the denazification files in StA-M, Spruchkammerakten, Karton 75, Eleonore Baur, Vol. 1-5; and the investigation files of the Sta. München II, 34448, Vol. 1-2. These files contain detailed witnesses' statements both from Baur and the prisoners. Publications by prisoners are sparse but the following should be mentioned: Rudolf Kalmar, Zeit ohne Gnade (Wien, 1946), pp. 176-179. Other unpublished reports are in the AG-D, for example “Erinnerungen des österreichischen Häftlings Hans Schwarz,” AG-D Hängeordner SS/Schwester Pia. The most recent contribution is the monograph by Stanislav Zamecnik, Das war Dachau (Luxemburg, 2002), pp. 180-184.

[Robin Lumsden]

Robin,
Thanks....very interesting reading, but.......
Wikipedia is renowned for non-academic bull****, so I read with tongue in cheek. I'd like to see a more academic source. To suggest that Eleonore Baur was entrusted with the running of a sub-camp of Dachau is, to be honest, a little far fetched. I'm not saying it's crap (really!), but more acceptable academic evidence might be a help.
I was under the impression that Baur was interned (not imprisoned) for several years because she remained a dyed-in-the wool National Socialist until her death. Like her or not, one has to admire her tenacity.
Happy New Year to all in the "heathen" north!
Max.

Max.
The sources were collated by the USHMM.