Irma Grese, SS Nazi, Sadist Guard At Auschwitz, 'Beast of Belsen,' Death Sentenced

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- 'The Real 'Beast of Belsen'? Irma Grese and Female Concentration Camp Guards.' The female guards at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück are less well known than their male counterparts, but they were no less brutal.

> The Real 'Beast of Belsen'? Irma Grese was, according to the charges brought against her at the Belsen Trial in 1945, one of the 'most sinister and hated figures' of the camps. Witnesses claimed that she used to beat women until they collapsed.
Of the 37,000 SS guards who actively participated in the daily suffering, torture and death of the internees, approximately 10 per cent were female overseers. Some of these overseers, including Irma Grese, were sentenced to death along with their male colleagues for ‘murder’ and ‘crimes and atrocities against the laws of humanity’. Others were sentenced to between one year to life imprisonment. Few were acquitted.

Their role in the Third Reich was a far cry from the Kinder, Küche, Kirche (children, kitchen, church) propaganda embedded in Nazi philosophy; they too were cogs in the killing machine of the Holocaust that led to the death of at least 1.5 million Jews...
https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/real-beast-belsen-irma-grese-and-female-concentration-camp-guards



- Irma Grese in prison awaiting trial, 'one of the most sinister and hated figures' of the camps, prisoners said.

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1. Jos. Kramer, No.1 ('Beast of Beslen') Nazi Commandant of Bergen-Belsen

concentration camp, assistant Irma Grese and Dr. Fritz Klein, No. 2 and 40 other criminals arrive to stand trial, 1945.

- THE BELSEN TRIAL, Josef Kramer (aka 'The Beast of Belsen'), Nazi commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and 44 other war criminals arrive at Lüneburg, Germany to stand trial at 'The Belsen Trial' in this Pathé gazette footage from 1945. Long shot of the entrance to Luneberg courtroom. Various shots of the Belsen war criminals including the Commandant of Belsen Concentration Camp Joseph Kramer (Beast of Belsen) and his assistant Irma Grese, arriving for trial.

Various shots of courtroom during trial of the Belsen criminals. Seated next to Kramer (number 1) is Dr Fritz Klein (number 2), German medical officer in Belsen. Pan along the line of the accused, Irma Grese is number 9. More shots of the trial.
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- Anne Frank in 1940.

Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank died in Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, a few weeks before the British forces arrived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
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-(USHMM) Approximately 50,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen camp complex. Among them was *ANNE FRANK*, the most well known child diarist of the Holocaust era. Background: German military authorities established the Bergen-Belsen camp in 1940. It was in a location south of the small towns of Bergen and Belsen, about 11 miles north of Celle, Germany. Until 1943, Bergen-Belsen was exclusively a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp.
In April 1943 the SS Economic-Administration Main Office (SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt; WVHA) which administered the concentration camp system, took over a portion of Bergen-Belsen and converted it first into a civilian residence camp and, later, into a concentration camp. Thus, while the German government placed the Bergen-Belsen camp complex within the concentration camp system, the WVHA initially gave it a special designation.

- The Bergen-Belsen Camp Complex: The Bergen-Belsen camp complex was composed of numerous camps, established at various times during its existence. There were three main components of the camp complex: the POW camp, the "residence camp" (Aufenthaltslager), and the "prisoners' camp" (Häftlingslager)..- Prisoners in the Camp: Over the course of its existence, the Bergen-Belsen camp complex held Jews, prisoners of war, political prisoners, Roma (Gypsies), "asocials," criminals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.

As Allied and Soviet forces advanced into Germany in late 1944 and early 1945, Bergen-Belsen became a collection camp for thousands of Jewish prisoners evacuated from camps closer to the front. The arrival of thousands of new prisoners, many of them survivors of forced evacuations on foot, overwhelmed the meager resources of the camp.

With an increasing number of transports of female prisoners, the SS dissolved the northern portion of the camp complex, which was still in use as a POW camp, and established the so-called "large women's camp" (Grosses Frauenlager) in its place in January 1945. This camp housed women evacuated from Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Ravensbrück, Neuengamme, Mauthausen, and Buchenwald concentration camps, as well as various subcamps and labor camps...https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/bergen-belsen

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2. Rest in hell.

Kind of an odd dramatic music piece, like a tv show... any idea if this was shown as part of the news in movie theatres back then?

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3. The music is like a suspense-thriller and seems more

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contemporary than c. 1945 because that style is atypical. And the film, except for the period clip sections looks too clear to be older vintage to me.

Start the film and then click on the 'You Tube' image at the lower right, it shows more info. like attribution and dates usually. For this though all there is is a name, 'Leah Snobrich' animoto.com. but when I googled that, it came up empty, very strange.

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4. Thank you for this.

Also, thank you for the plethora of other posts in the same vein. I mistakenly "thanked" another poster, and now I am correcting the mistake.

It is nice to have other allies who see this and the like as important enough to post.

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6. Nazi Gestapo Torture Chamber Horrors In Paris, 1944