Irma Grese was the blonde, blue-eyed daughter of a German farmer. Her mother committed suicide as age 13 and she was raised by a strict, violent father. Indoctrinated in the greatness of Nazism at school, she joined the League of German Girls when she left home at age 14. She became a nurse at an S.S. hospital, but failed at it. At age 18, she joined the S.S. and was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. There she gained a reputation for beating inmates and sleeping with her fellow guards. In 1943, she was transferred to Auschwitz. A doctor there described her as the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, but “the most depraved, cruel, imaginative pervert I ever came across.” By 1944, she was in charge of the female inmates. She had two vicious dogs that she would sic on any woman who displeased her. She carried a whip which she used frequently, sometimes killing women with it. If you survived and went to the hospital for an infection, she would attend the surgery to enjoy the screaming. If they did not scream enough, she would kick them. She did not confine her sexual trysts to just men. Josef Mengele broke it off with her because of her female affairs. She ended up in Bergen-Belsen where she earned the name “The Beast of Belsen”. She would have the women stand at roll call for up to six hours. Anyone who couldn’t stay on their feet was beaten to death. She was captured by the British and tried for war crimes. Unrepentant, she went to the gallows with a smile on her face. At age 22, she was the youngest war criminal to be executed. It is estimated that around 3,600 women worked in concentration camps. 60 were put on trial and 21 were hanged.
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myyellowbike · January 15, 2021 at 9:16 pm
Someone named Ilse Koch was another very evil person. I guess, she was ultimately not executed but killed herself in her prison cell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch