Execution
Salvequart appealed for clemency on the basis of having stolen schematics for the V-2 rockets being produced at the camp prior to 1944, hoping to smuggle it to the British; she was granted a temporary reprieve while this was taken into consideration. However, clemency was denied and on June 26, 1947, she was hanged by Albert Pierrepoint on the gallows at Hamelin Prison, aged 27 years. Shortly afterwards, her body was buried with the other executed war criminals at Wehl Cemetery in Hameln.
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| Name | Salvequart, Vera |
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| Date of birth | November 26, 1919 |
| Place of birth | Czechoslovakia |
| Date of death | June 26, 1947 |
| Place of death | Germany |
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