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Dark History of Irma Grese: The Hyena of Auschwitz.
The life of Irma Grese is a genuine blot to the history of the World War II. She showed that being young does not always make one innocent.
Her Early Life
Irma was born in 1923. At a tender age of 12, her life went black. Her mother found out that Irma had a cheating father and killed herself. Irma dropped out of school after this tragedy and much later on, she joined the Nazi SS.
A Career Built on Cruelty
She was employed in 1942 as a guard in Ravensbruck. Her employers soon understood that she was very rough and vicious in nature. By 1943, she was moved to Auschwitz.
She also rose and became a Senior SS Supervisor within a very short time. At one point, she was the head of 30,000 other female prisoners. This put her in a situation entirely free to mistreat other people with no laws to limit her.
Why She Was Called the "Hyena"
She was a nightmare with heavy boots and this is what people who survived do not forget. She had a woven whip and struck prisoners on the chest.
Among the physicians who happened to be prisoners, one named Dr. Gisella Perl called Grese the most evil woman she had ever encountered. She found Grese take pleasure in seeing people undergo torturous medical procedures. Grese could have looked like a normal human being but her actions were not human.
The Trial and Execution
Grese worked with these men as Josif Mengele who chooses how many people will go to gas chambers. She had a part to make life and death.
The war reached an end and she was taken hostage by the British army. She was brought to trial in the trial of war crimes in Bergen-Belsen trial. She was later found guilty and was hanged on December 13, 1945.
Even in 22 years of age she did not regret having done so. Her story is a terrifying depiction of what may happen when the power is in the wrong hands.
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