Exterminating angel. She “She has been described as the worst woman on the entire field. There was no cruelty that was not related to her. She regularly participated in the selections for the gas chamber, torturing at will. In Belsen, she continued with the same behavior, equally public.
Research points to a daily average of thirty crimes by the cruel Irma Ilse Ida Grese
Irma Ilse Ida Grese He was born in the German town of Wrechen on October 7, 1923. in the bosom of a destructured family. His father, Alfred Grese, a dissident milkman from the Nazi Party he had been left a widower after his wife committed suicide in 1936.
It was after her time as a cleaner in a clinic in Hohenlychen that its director, doctor Karl Gebhardt – accused of carrying out surgical experiments on prisoners of the Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps and tried in the Doctor’s Trial de Nuremberg– who encouraged her not to falter.
Nothing was to come between Grese and his future in the SS quarters., not even being a mother and starting a family. When Irma got pregnant ordered another inmate to perform an abortion on her. She is she was so afraid of Grese that she helped her.
Perhaps that coldness was the reason why in March 1942 and at the age of 18, finally Irma Grese managed to enter the Ravensbrück camp as a volunteer, after a previous failed attempt. There he would begin his training.
After his apprenticeship period, in March 1943 Grese was transferred to Auschwitz and assigned to concentration camp (KL) of Birkenau, where at first he carried out tasks of control of provisions, handling of mail and the Strassenbaukommandothe command of the highway unit.
He was not yet twenty years old and his career was still on the rise. In the autumn of that same year, Grese was named SS Superintendent (supervisor) with a salary of 54 marks a month, about 28 euros.
THE MOST IMPORTANT WOMAN
the german she was the second highest ranking woman in the camp after of Mary Mandel which meant that it was in charge of some 30,000 inmates of Jewish origin, mostly Polish and Hungarian.
The angel, according to the survivors, He walked through the pavilions. During her journey she was accompanied by her dogs, always hungry and furious, which Irma used to her liking. One of their diversions was to launch these beasts against the inmates so that they would be devoured.
another of his mode of operation it consisted of murdering the inmates by shooting them in cold blood. Also used a braided whip to smash the breasts of women, preferably Jewish and with a good figure, until causing their death.
The captives were treated as mere guinea pigs, any medical trial was worth it if it was managed to impart extreme suffering. Everything was legal, especially if it was for the use and enjoyment of the Nazi guardian. “She went so far as to gouge out a girl’s eyes when she found her talking to an acquaintance through the wire fence,” said a Técsö survivor.
Currently, the exact number of murders that the Beast could have inflicted in shed C of the Birkenau camp is not known exactly, investigations point to a daily average of thirty crimes. The capacity of its pavilion was 30,000 inmates.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was not the only concentration camp to suffer the fury of Irma Grese. For a brief period of time -from January to March 1945-, the young woman returned to the Ravensbrück camp to later be sent to Bergen-Belsen, near Hannover, Germany.
SHOOT WITHOUT PITY
During the dawn of the surrender, from April 14 to 15, 1945, Commander Josef Kramer negotiated the surrender with the British. Meanwhile, and with the Bergen-Belsen compound still in German hands, the guards fired on several prisoners who were trying to escape.
Early in the morning, the Allies arrived to find Teutonic personnel lined up, neatly uniformed, impeccable and relentless, and among them, an icy Irma Grese with an arrogant gaze.
After his arrest, Grese was tried together with the commander of Bergen-Belsen, Josef Kramer and forty other officers in September 1945. They were accused of committing war crimes and had various charges of murder and ill-treatment of prisoners from the concentration camps of Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz.
Despite being convicted, Grese denied all murder charges against her, He never renounced the Nazi ideology and even came to sing the martial songs of the SS on the eve of his execution.
On the 54th day of the trial, the Nazi was found guilty of committing war crimes in the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz camps. According to the Court, she is still responsible for the well-being of the prisoners violated the laws and customs in times of war and participated in the mistreatment of some people, even causing their death. The verdict: die by hanging.
On Friday, December 13, 1945 at 9:34 in the morning, Irma Grese headed to the execution room in the company of his executioner, the British Albert Pierrepoint. Entering, she gazed at the officials standing there for a moment, then climbed the steps to the hatch as diligently as he could. His last words were: “Schnell!” (fast!). I was 22 years old.
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