Every day, Irma Grese would strut across the concentration camp courtyard wielding her three weapons of choice: a pistol, a horse whip and her polished jackboots.
Famed for her 'Hollywood filmstar' looks, history remembers the Nazi 'Hyena of Auschwitz' for her callous, arbitrary use of these weapons on emaciated prisoners at the death camp.
The Hyena also had a penchant for depraved, sexual violence, and seemingly chose partners who were as twisted as she was. She is reported to have been a lover of Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who commissioned countless barbaric human experiments.Grese, pictured with Auschwitz commandant Josef Kramer, was known for her crueltyGrese made her way up the food chain at Auschwitz
She was also a timid girl, according to her family. Her sister, Helene, told the Belsen Trials: 'In our schooldays when, as it sometimes happens, girls were quarrelling and fighting, my sister had never the courage to fight, but on the contrary she ran away.' Victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp stand on the platform in Birkenau station, awaiting selection for either the gas chambers or forced labourCountless prisoners were starved to death at concentration camps
Read More He'd lost 2 million votes. The Nazis were bankrupt. Now a forensic new book reveals how Hitler still went from doomed to dictator in just six days According to testimony shared at Nuremberg, 'She beat some of the women to death and whipped others mercilessly using a plaited whip.' It wasn't just the act of committing violence that got her off. Grese was said to have derived near-sexual pleasure from watching prisoners in agony.
'She did this on multiple occasions so she could relive this sadistic moment repeatedly. She always came to watch the operations of these women whose breasts had been slashed open and had become infected with the lice and dirt which pervaded the women’s camp.
The man was forced to watch his lover, one of his few comforts in the wretched camp, get tortured because he had refused Grese's advances. Read More Shocking moment Warwick University Tory students 'dance to Nazi song Erika' She also made them hold heavy rocks over their heads, punishing them if they did not stand up straight.
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