Full name: Bathild Ludwig Born (Born Ludwig Bathild) Year of birth and death: 1904 – 1972 Biography: In 1942, the Panzerschreck rocket launcher was put into combat practice for the first time. At this time, the Dienstmädchen-SS unit also received a small number of these new weapons, so it needed specialized people to operate them and Bathild Ludwig Born was the person assigned to that task. Born in 1904 into a small family specializing in mechanics near the German-Austrian border, Bathild had a strong passion for machinery from an early age, any type of machinery that was within her reach. being destroyed gave her father a 'headache'. When Bathild was 12 years old, World War I broke out. Her father, with his talent, was not sent to war, but he had to move to work in a local weapons factory to serve the war. Whenever she brought lunch to her father, Bathild paid attention to getting to know the workers and even the soldiers protecting the factory. Over time, they got used to this lovely girl and Bathild was free to go in and out of the factory. gas. During the war, she became familiar with almost all personal weapons and how to maintain them. This knowledge was very useful to her later. In 1918, the world war ended, Bathild's father returned and continued his daily life. Bathild gradually grew up and took over her father's work when he died in 1927. In 1929, the great depression around the world made her lose her life. To take care of her mother and younger siblings, Bathild joined the German defense force (Reichswehr) when they were in dire need of mechanical experts to maintain technological equipment. Impressed by her knowledge of weapons, Bathild was involved in the maintenance of important heavy weapons and she also learned how to operate such advanced equipment. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Bathild was employed in the Panzer maintenance unit of the Third Reich. In 1936, after taking the entrance exam for Dienstmädchen-SS at Arilda's request, she was assigned by Arilda to be the captain of the logistics unit for the newly established Dienstmädchen battalion. Later, when she was assigned to the Panzerschreck and assigned to protect German generals on the Western front, she improved it to become lighter, shoot faster and more accurately, making it difficult for the Allies. During Germany's failed final counterattack in the Ardennes (1945), Bathild was wounded in the leg while retreating and was captured by American troops, and she was held captive by them until the end of the war. At the Nürnberger trial, in response to accusations of war crimes committed by other SS units, she simply said: ”Ich glaube nicht, dass Sieger wie Sie die Worte ‘Holocaus’ oder ‘Völkermord’ verwenden können, um die Einheit zu beschreiben, die eingerichtet wurde, um die Leute zurückzuhalten, die Sie geschickt haben, um unsere Anführer zu töten, wenn es bei Ihnen um ‘Völkermord’ und ‘Holocaust’ geht. Vielleicht sollte das Gericht mehr Gerichte in Washington und Moskau eröffnen”. At the end of the trial, Bathild was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but due to the Cold War and the impression of NATO and US leaders about the improved version of the Panzerschreck weapon of the Dienstmädchen-SS unit, she was released early and continued. continuing to invent weapons at a secret research laboratory in West Germany when he was just sentenced to 3 years. In 1949, she married John Williams, a 40-year-old man assigned to protect a laboratory with similar interests in mechanics, who was also the US soldier who captured her in the Ardennes forest. have 3 children together. In 1968, Bathild's family moved to the USA to live in California. In 1972, after 2 years of treatment for tuberculosis, Bathild Ludwig Born died at the age of 68. Her remains were buried in a cemetery on the outskirts of the city. Viewpoint: “Napoleon Bonaparte hatte Unrecht. Gott ist nicht nur ‘auf der Seite derer, die viel Artillerie haben’, sondern es ist ihm auch egal, wie verzweifelt diejenigen sind, die wenig Artillerie haben.”