The facts that you are reading are all true. It is an actual historical fact though hard to believe.
Following the World War 2, many of the Germany women who worked as guards in the Nazi concentration camps, who were referred to as Aufseherinnen, were tried and subsequently executed.
They were not even brought to trial at the notorious Nuremberg Trials. In its place, smaller courts were maintained by the Allied powers – Britain, the United States and the Polish government in the vicinity of the crime scenes, like in Auschwitz and in Bergen-Belsen.
The best evidence was the eyewitnesses of the camps who did not hesitate to give testimony to the judges and juries and described the atrocities.
The guards had not just gone by the order. They were sadistic, they tortured prisoners, beat them mercilessly, and even personally choose them to hang in the gas chambers.
The case was made, the worst of the guards were found guilty of war crimes and murder and hung to death.
Irma Grese was the youngest (then aged 22) to be executed after the Belsen Trial.
Maria Mandl a director of the camp of the women in Auschwitz had been executed by the Polish authorities to her crimes.
Therefore, it is a fact that the women in charge of the camps were punishable and given maximum punishment in terms of brutality and justice was served.