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A Second Marriage That Was as Slimy as the First

Stella Kubler after the war, during her trial. Spiegel

Despite her services, the Nazis broke their promises to Stella Kubler, and deported her parents to their death in a camp. Soon thereafter, in 1943, her husband and his family were also sent to Auschwitz. Stella tied the knot once again, and her second marriage was to yet another Jew Catcher. She continued to work enthusiastically for the Gestapo. She bet on a Nazi victory in WWII, and obtained a promise from a high-ranking Gestapo official in 1944 that she would get declared an Aryan after the war. Throughout her career as a Jew Catcher, Stella was responsible for the arrest and subsequent murder of hundreds of Jews.

The number of her victims ranged from at least 600 to possibly as high as 3000. They included many of her personal friends, former schoolmates and their families, and even some of her own relatives. After the war, she got off light. Captured by the Soviets, she was sentenced to only ten years imprisonment. After her release, she moved to West Berlin, where she was tried again and sentenced to ten years, but served none of them. She then converted to Christianity, and became a lifelong anti-Semite. She committed suicide in 1994, and jumped to her death from window of her Berlin apartment.

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