My grandmother was born in 1925 in the Netherlands. In 1944 she got engaged to a German soldier stationed in The Hague, who was sent to the Eastern front not long after. He was wounded there and sent to a hospital in Munich. My grandmother desperately tried to find a way to visit him and ended up joining a "fog batallion" (Nebelabteilung). According to my source this batallion was part of the Luftwaffe but online I can only find references to SS-Nebelabteilungen. She did receive her salary through the Fürsorgekommando des Höheren SS- und Polizeiführers Nordwest - so was she a member of the SS?
From 24 December 1944 until about a month later she was stationed in Christianstadt/Bober (present-day Krzystkowice, Poland). In this town the Christianstadt concentration camp was located. This was a satellite camp of KZ Groß-Rosen where women were forced to work for a chemical factory.
My grandmother never spoke about her experiences during the war and died in 1998. She was arrested after the war but not sentenced to any jail time - maybe she wasn't put on trial at all. Her court records show she went to Germany but not what she actually did there.
So my question is: Is there any change my grandmother worked at the Christianstadt concentration camp? If so, what did she do there? If not, what did she do in Christianstadt?
Edit: spelling.
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