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Between autumn 1941 and the end of April 1942, 1,450 to 1,700 women and roughly 300 men were selected from the prisoners at the Ravensbrück concentration camp.This article examines the social dynamics of the process over time, from the first selections at the camp, to those made by the T4 expert Friedrich Mennecke up until the last ones carried out by the staff at the Ravensbrück women’s camp. The author studies the amount of leeway and decision-making power that the staff at the women’s camp had with regards to these murders. He describes the criteria used in the selection process and also the groups of prisoners from which the victims were selected. The author tries to answer the question of how it was possible for these murders to take place, which is to say, how they became an “ordinary and everyday” task for the Nazis. He studies this issue by looking at the actions of individuals in their everyday lives at the camp. The author’s thesis is that the murders were only made possible because of the active, physical participation of many actors working at different levels of the hierarchy.