Talk:Anne Spoerry

Kapo?

I have removed category Kapo here (ping User:Icewhiz). Anne seems to have been a friend of a kapo (Carmen Mory) but not a kapo herself. See added source (if you press stop loading page before it finishes, paywall should not trigger...). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:07, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

@Piotrus: - then Anne Spoerry#Personal life needs to be corrected as it reads She once had been known as “Dr. Claude,” a notoriously brutal kapo during her time as an inmate at Ravensbrück, a women-only Nazi concentration camp.. I'll note this seems to be coming from a WSJ review - "Few life stories are as confounding as that of Anne Spoerry ... known as “Dr. Claude,” a notoriously brutal kapo during her time as an inmate at ...". This open review - - reads "But her campaign was cut short within weeks of its inauguration. Captured by the Gestapo in 1943, she was transferred to Ravensbruck. There she effectively functioned as a kapo under the command of a sociopathic inmate called Carmen Mory, a Blockova or block elder, and was assigned to supervise tubercular prisoners." - so "effectively functioned as a kapo" (which reads like a maybe yes, maybe no) - in short the body of the article here needs to be updated as well per whatever we decide this status is.Icewhiz (talk) 06:32, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

@Icewhiz: Feel free to update the article further, but I think we need to be careful with regards to the part of whether she was a kapo or not. My reading of the sources suggests she was likely a kapo's unofficial assistant, but that doesn't make her a kapo. A collaborator category of some sorts could be considered, but there's also the matter of the post-war trials, at least one of which ruled her to be not guilty. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:15, 18 December 2018 (UTC)