Editing Violette Szabo (section)

===Execution===
Szabo was killed in the execution alley at Ravensbrück, aged 23, on or before 5 February 1945. She was shot in the back of the head while kneeling down, by SS-Rottenführer Schult in the presence of camp commandant [[Fritz Suhren]] (who pronounced the death penalty), camp overseer and deputy commandant [[Johann Schwarzhuber]], SS-Scharführer Zappe, SS-Rottenführer Walter Schenk (responsible for the crematorium), chief camp doctor Dr. Richard Trommer and dentist Dr. [[Martin Hellinger]], from the deposition of Schwarzhuber recorded by Vera Atkins 13 March 1946.{{sfn|Ottaway|2003|pp=152–154}} Denise Bloch and Lilian Rolfe – neither of whom could walk and were carried on stretchers – were shot at the same time, by order of the highest Nazi authorities; the bodies were disposed of in the camp [[crematorium]]. Their clothes were not returned to the camp ''Effektenkammer'' (property store) as usually happened after executions.{{efn|Mary Lindell, an escape line organiser also imprisoned in Ravensbrück, believed the three women agents were hanged, as was the usual practice in the camp and their clothes distributed to other prisoners.{{sfn|Wynne|1961|p=253}} Vera Atkins's detailed investigations, including interrogations of Suhren, Schwatzhuber and others who were involved in the killings, established the official version of execution by shooting in the back of the neck.{{sfn|Binney|2002|pp=243–244}}{{sfn|Helm|2005|pp=314–315}} In 2015, Helm cast doubt on Schwarzhuber's account, suggesting he was trying to give a veneer of dignity to the killings in his interrogations and pointing out that several French agents transported to Ravensbrück along with the three SOE agents, had been executed by hanging shortly before.{{sfn|Helm|2015|pp=525–528}}}}