Amalie Payrleitner

Amalie Payrleitner was a guard at the Mauthausen and Ravensbruck camps during the last years of World War II.

Amalie Payrleitner was born in Vienna, Austria on June 16, 1922. In 1944, as the call for guards became more desperate, Amalie was forced to become a camp guard for the Nazis. On October 1, 1944, she reported to the Mauthausen camp in near Linz to be trained as an SS elite guard. Eventually, Amalie, as well as Albine Pallaoro oversaw a transport of female prisoners to Ravensbruck camp. There she continued out her duties until the camps liberation. Amalie has never been charged with war crimes.