The most cruel women in the history of the world, one of which is also associated with Lithuania: their torture methods are hard to comprehend
No one minds if we say that those who served in concentration camps lacked a moral compass, but some of the workers at this camp could make ordinary camp guards look like angels. Irma Grese was one of them.
Irma was born in 1923. October 7 In the family of Berta and Alfredo Grese. 13 years later, her mother, after learning about her husband’s infidelity, committed suicide by drinking hydrochloric acid. Irma had a sister, Helen, who testified at trial that Irma never got into fights at school and always ran away when in danger. Irma was well at 14 and worked on a farm and well while studying nursing at an SS (Nazi German paramilitary organization) convalescent hospital. Here she saw the brutality for the first time, the grotesquely torturous experiments performed on the patient.
in 1942 she was employed as a guard at the Ravensbrück camp, which was exclusively for female prisoners.
in 1943 she went through to Auschwitz, where she rose to the rank of senior SS supervisor, the second highest rank for women members of the SS. This rank gave her almost unlimited freedom to brutally abuse the prisoners. Before the transfer, however, she visited her father, who already had an open hatred of anything to do with the Nazis. She wore her SS uniform to provoke him, and after a heated argument she beat him and told him never to come back. This affected Irma deeply, and her hatred of her father fueled her violent temper.
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