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Irma Grese: The 22-Year-Old Nazi Guard Who Terrorized Women at Auschwitz and Belsen
Irma Grese became one of the most notorious female perpetrators of the Holocaust. Serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became infamous among prisoners for her brutality and sadism within the Nazi concentration camp system.
Born in Germany in 1923, Grese grew up during the rise of Nazism and entered concentration camp service while still a teenager. After training at Ravensbrück, she was transferred in 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination complex. There, she supervised female prisoner labour details, participated in…
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