Meet Maria Mandl a small town girl lured by the Nazi party’s promise of stable, well-paid work and upward mobility, who rose to the highest position a woman could hold as an SS officer in a concentration camp. A classical-music lover since childhood, Maria Mandl wielded art as a method of torture and earned herself the nickname “The Beast.” After watching the video, the prompts below can be used to engage students in thought-provoking discussion about what they have learned.
