Antonina Makarova was a nurse-turned-executioner in the Nazi-sponsored Lokot Autonomy during World War II, responsible for as much as 1,500 murders. She evaded the Red Army’s counterattack when her habit of sleeping with German officers caused her to get sent to a hospital in Bryansk for syphilis.
Following the war, she settled down and married a Jewish war veteran who lost his family in the Holocaust, posing as a veteran herself and becoming a respected member of the community. The KGB finally discovered her when it turned out that she was born under a different name and went by “Makarova” because on her first day of school, she was too shy to mention her actual last name, so the school used her father’s name Makar.
After more than a year of monitoring and corroborating with witnesses, she was arrested in 1978, convicted of 168 known murders and executed.
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Antonina Makarova was a nurse-turned-executioner in the Nazi-sponsored Lokot Autonomy during World War II, responsible for as much as 1,500 murders. She evaded the Red Army’s counterattack when her habit of sleeping with German officers caused her to get sent to a hospital in Bryansk for syphilis.
Following the war, she settled down and married a Jewish war veteran who lost his family in the Holocaust, posing as a veteran herself and becoming a respected member of the community. The KGB finally discovered her when it turned out that she was born under a different name and went by “Makarova” because on her first day of school, she was too shy to mention her actual last name, so the school used her father’s name Makar.
After more than a year of monitoring and corroborating with witnesses, she was arrested in 1978, convicted of 168 known murders and executed.