Execution of Irma Grese - The Hyena of Auschwitz - Nazi Guard at Auschwitz & Bergen-Belsen - WW2
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- Execution of Irma Grese - The Hyena of Auschwitz - Nazi Guard at Auschwitz & Bergen-Belsen - WW2. Irma Grese was born on the 7th of October 1923. In 1936, when Irma was 13 years old, her mother committed suicide following the discovery of her husband’s affair with a local pub owner's daughter. She was then raised only by her father Alfred Grese, a devout Christian, who was very stern and strict with his children and would often used physical violence to discipline them.
Her criminal career in concentration camps began in July 1942 when she arrived in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.
In March, 1943 Irma Grese was deployed in Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was located in German occupied Poland.
Birkenau was the largest of the more than 40 camps and sub-camps that made up the Auschwitz complex. It was divided into ten sections separated by electrified barbed-wire fences. It was patrolled by SS guards, including-after 1942-SS dog handlers.
During its three years of operation, it had a range of functions. When construction began in October 1941, it was supposed to be a camp for 125 thousand prisoners of war. It opened as a branch of Auschwitz in March 1942, and served at the same time as a center for the extermination of the Jews. In its final phase, from 1944, it also became a place where prisoners were concentrated before being transferred to labor in German industry in the depths of the Third Reich.
According to Irma’s sister Helene, when Irma was a little girl, she was frightened to stand up for herself, and would run away to avoid a fight. At Auschwitz however, Grese found herself for the first time in a position to strike people when they could not strike her back. And she enjoyed it.
Grese would become one of the most hated and feared guards in the camp and she owed her infamous nicknames "the Hyena of Auschwitz" and "the Beautiful Beast" to her cruelty and brutality. Grese was also reputed to be a sexual deviant, taking lovers from the male and female populace of Birkenau. She was also alleged to have had affairs with the infamous doctor Josef Mengele, as well as Josef Kramer, the commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Doctor Gisella Perl, former Auschwitz prisoner, said about Irma: “She was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Her body was perfect in every line, her face clear and angelic, and her blue eyes the gayest, the most innocent eyes one can imagine. And yet Irma Grese was the most depraved, cruel, imaginative pervert I ever came across.”
In her memoir Five Chimneys, Auschwitz survivor Olga Lengyel writes that Grese had affairs not only with doctor Mengele but with many other Nazis as well. When it came time to select women for the gas chamber, Lengyel noted that Irma Grese would purposely pick out the beautiful female prisoners due to jealousy and spite.
However, there were female prisoners that Irma Grese was fond of. Such was a case of Nina Kaleska, then 16 years old, whom Grese told her that she looked like her sister Helene. Kaleska was used by Irma as a messenger and lookout girl when Irma held lesbian orgies in barracks and watched out so that nobody would interrupt them.
Grese had numerous affairs with female inmates and when she grew bored of them, she would select them for gas chamber to be killed.
She also beat her sexual subjects.
When a handsome Georgian man refused Grese’s advances toward him, he had to watch Irma dragging his naked girlfriend around the camp by the hair and then whipping her. After Grese tortured the woman he loved, she had the man shot and the woman sent to the camp brothel.
Justice finally caught up with Grese when she was tried at the Belsen Trial which began on the 17th of September 1945.
On the 17th of November, The British Military tribunal sentenced Irma Grese to death by hanging. She was 22 years old when the British executioner Albert Pierrepoint carried out the sentence on the 13th of December,1945. Walking to the gallows her final and only word was "schnell" meaning quickly. Grese was the youngest woman to die judicially under British law in the 20th century.
There were no tears shed for Irma Grese.
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You know you’re a terrible monster when a higher up nazi is like “whoa, bro, you need to calm down”
i mean they're still people at the end of the day its off the top still but it was always off the top. The worst thing is they didnt even think each other as monsters and were talking as if a child accidentally hit a family dog too hard
@@BeeruzChrysler no because im literally a human myself
@@BeeruzChrysler🤦🏻♀️They didn’t say that they know exactly what they thought. The SS absolutely did treat it in that manner. There are first hand accounts of the incidents lol
@@BeeruzChrysler No. First hand accounts detail what physically happened and what was actually said. It’s simple to extrapolate certain details from there as scholars have done. They have not however spoken as though they ‘absolutely knows 100%’ and neither did the previous commenter.
I'm surprised that it's not ever mentioned, some of the ppl went crazy, violently retaliating back against the forces at hand!🤔...
What’s crazy to me is how, in this modern day, Irma would likely just end up being your average mean girl working in a 9-5 job. In the Holocaust, the amount of power she was given, coupled with her antisocial personality, created the conditions for her to be an infamous villain. I often think about how many people around us could be just like Grese or Mengele if the conditions were right. When you allow psychopathic people with poor childhoods and personality disturbances the ability to govern helpless people, that’s how mass murderers are formed.
The line between good and evil lies directly down the middle of each man's heart.
but you yourself hunt children for food
@@atonyathehun6639 wat?
@@atonyathehun6639 What did Trump do that was evil? Bet you can't come up with anything! If he was still president you would not have 13 year olds getting their breasts or penises cut off that's for sure. Talk about evil!
I don't know if it is true but I read that the women selected for this duty were known to be somewhat psychotic - not normal.
As a german myself, I'm always horrified by our ancestors actions. The only shame for me is, that not all criminals were brought to justice and many got away scotfree. My father told me of a saying during his youth in germany: "Trust no one over 30", meaning that basically almost everyone above it was a former Nazi.
It’s wild what humans do to each other. Not just in ww2, but throughout all of history
You feel shame for something you had no control over that happened before you were even born? That's unfortunate..Maybe you should just feel shame over your own actions and not those of complete strangers just because you share a National heritage. This entire "generational guilt" nonsense, I will never understand. Remember history so that it doesn't get repeated but by no means feel responsibility or guilt.
@@horizontide568I think people get too tied up in semantics. 'Shame' does not necessarily denote guilt or responsibility - it can simply indicate acknowledgement: As in, 'it is a shame that it happened'
Fascinating story and provided me perspective I could have never gained through my own experiences. Thank you for sharing.
Slogan was used by 1960s hippies ,especially during Anti- Vietnam War Protests .
My father worked with a nice man, a teacher, who was an American POW in Germany during the war. He told my father that there was a guard so sadistic and cruel, that after they had been liberated, he tried desperately to find this guard for the sole purpose of killing him. He never found him.
Israel belongs to God's People say's Gayla Shabbat Shalom Blessings to Israel
@@user-yn8qi4fn4y Israel Belong to Palestinians
@rondobson1828 He was never brought to justice?
@@sidibasse9518It belongs to me
😂@@PrivateMcPrivate
Top respect to her father - for disowning her when he found out she worked at the camp
Not all Germans were blindly devoted Nazis. A few dared to resist. Much respect to them.
@@mitchelnorton2692 Col. Stauffenberg and his team come to mind. They were all found and executed unfortunately, but they all went in knowing they were dying for a good cause.
Yeah, toop respect for a man that cheated on his wife, beat his children and led his wife to suicide. The political left everyone…
If he was a better parent she never would have turned out the way she did.
@@2buxaslice Most stupid comment ever
Erma was 22. She looks much older pushing 40. Her evil wasn't hidden in her face. Monster.
probably cuz she was victim of satanic ritual abuse, mind control
Only 22!? Jesus 😳
They should have made her suffer, not a quick death
Yeah, her eyes have that look too
She will knock a buzzard off a s#}twagon
I'm 52 and have extensively watched and studied both World Wars, the depravity and cruelty in these stories still shocks and sickens me to my core.
We should *_NEVER_* forget the barbarity that was unleashed by a dictator upon those he despised.
Your thoughts on North Korea?
@@LeonItsMe Until we have access to North Korea, nobody will ever know the true scope of genocide there.
The Bolsheviks were far worse. Yet they are not talked about. Who nose why?
@@LeonItsMe Are you just curious or are you committing a whataboutism in order to downplay nazi atrocities?
AHEM: See Trumpism 101.
When you are constantly beaten and bellitteld and start to hate people, and then given absolute power over others with no consequences but instead being applauded by how cruel you are it breeds sadists and killers.
She was 22? She was so hardened at such a young age? Chilling!
I was working with young girls and you could cclearly see in some of them that they would kill you just like that pure hate in their eyes bro
Brainwashed by her surroundings
She could have thrived as a corporate executive in America today.
This is the exact strategy that the Dems are using in the US today.
@@frankiecarbone5119 smh how do you liken one to the other .. some ppl should be banned from commenting
I only heard of Irma 3 days before my father died in front of me, telling me his encounter with her directly. On April 15, 1945 when the British liberated Bergen Belson my father was ordered to arrest her. He ordered her to move, and she stood still until he stuck his bayonet into her backside, she moved then. He said she was very arrogant. He never forgot the horrendous smell of the 1000's of corpses.
that's an amazing story!
W to your father
Filthy liar
Kudos to your father!!!!
Thank you for sharing it with us. Respect and peace to your father.
This is so well done. I appreciate that it does not shy from frank language to describe the reality.
Remember: all this happened not so long ago.
The worst thing is that this is a reminder of what humanity is capable of. You may not think you could be capable of such sadistic acts, but in the right circumstances you could and would. That is the horrifying part and why it is so important to remember tragedies like the holocaust and numerous events that occurred during WW2.
Yes
True, if I was an overseer in a concentration camp for nazis, I'd be very cruel, indeed.
I'm only capable of sadistic deeds against psychos like this
Remember the expulsion and killing of Jews in England and they were expelled from alot of other countries and murdered and there land and possessions stole its not just the nazis it numerous times throughout history
No, not everyone is capable of this. That's just a lie. There were many people who fought against the German Nazis and helped Jews. There were even concentration camp guards who helped Jews escape.
You always have a choice to do good. Human beings are not innately evil.
They had a really different idea of what beauty was in Germany back then. This woman looks like what is in her soul; a beast.
She was a real battleaxe.
yeah but most women today wear a mask of make-up. You rarely see what they really look like.
@@sabercrosby8128 She's a 8 in Germany, a 9 in England and a 5 everywhere else
Nowadays the expecting of beauty is ridiculous.
Yes by all means take the face paint off along with the masks and most of these so called beauties today are woof woofs purple hair and all !
I am 55. I taught history for 32 years. I am very well versed in history, particularly the WWII story. I am still sickened and shocked at how evil some humans can be.
It’s more compelling to me the dichotomy of good and evil people. Some are evil most are not. Why? Makes life interesting and tragic, right?
How scary can Jason and Jigsaw be compared to lampshades made from human skin?
And sometimes we have to go to war to stop them. So sad.
@@mitchelnorton2692 - If the body had a tattoo, it was desirable as a wallet or shade. Women’s breasts were made into tobacco pouches.
Read “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, truly repulsive.
The forced abortions sounds just like Planned Parenthood and Demorats in the US
When i was 19 and pregnant with my first child i worked cleaning house once a week for a woman named Helga.
She was full blooded german, from germany. Her accent was thick. She would hsve me clean for a while and then she would make me lunch and we would talk.
We always sat in her kitchen...her house was very big and strange things would happen in her home i still cant explain.
She had 13 weiner dogs. Some were long haired and i had never seen those before, only short haired ones. They had names like fritz, mitsy, princey, and she took good care of them.
She told me she had been a child in germany during WWII. She was having dinner with het father, mother, older sister, baby brother, maternal grandmother, and 2 paternal uncles.
She remembered SS soldiers coming to their apartment and her father told the children to go in the bedroom area and shut the curtain.
Her father was told that he and her uncles would become soldiers or everyone in the apartment would be shot.
She never saw het fsther or uncles again. She did find out her father died somewhere in russia.
When her mom and sister and brother were going to a food line to meet up with her grandma bombs were dropped. Her mom told her and her sister to get into a ditch and she would go and try ro find their grandma. After the bombing her sister, baby brother and mother and grandma were all dead.
She also remembered parades for the nazis that they were forced to attend and wave and clap. She remembered her dad telling her to wave.
Helga ended up being found by another uncle who had bought them both passage on a ship to america somehow.
He was the only family she had left. He found a place in america that accepted helga as a foster child and he went back to germany. They did keep in touch.
She became a nurse and married a man in the army.
She would go back to germany and visit her only fanily left, her uncles descendants.
She would make me all kinds of foods i wouldnt normally eat, lots of cheese i had never heard of.
I remember sitting in the kitchen talking to helga and i heard something moving in the kitchen. We both realozed it was a candlestick that was sitting on the refrigerator pushed almost all the way to the back of the fridge up against the wall. The candlestick was shaking so badly it made noise. We both kust watched as the candle stick lifted into the air and flew toward us with so much force we both ducked down.
I was scared and wondering how that just happened. We were the only people there. She just shrugged and said " strange things happen around pregnant women."
At my baby shower she brought me coins feol germany for my baby, my son who is now 24 still has them.
So many people of all races suffered from this war. Not all germans believed in this sick behavior, a lot of men were forced to join the german army or watch your family be shot and then they shoot you.
Helga and my time with her was important and it left me with so much to think about.
Holy shit! That's a good story. So, did she have any idea who may have been haunting her house?
How did so many people get so easily talked into the kind of hatred it would take to do this to innocent men, women, and children
Ever met a trumper?
They were all led to believe they weren’t massacring humans, or rather a subspecies below them. They were deluded into thinking they had the right of might by nature.
@@dottyspotty9835something woke people are trying to replicate with abortion.
@@oddinary_kayyour exceptionally dumb
@@oddinary_kaythe difference is that these people have lived and made memories. But fetuses are living but have not yet ‘lived’. It is not the same. And saying to a woman who is alive, understands fear and understands what is going to happen, to then just be pregnant for 9 months and thus be open to the numerous complications it brings and finally give birth to child she doesn’t want…. doesn’t sound morally correct. If the people involved don’t want to look after the kids then who will ? are you gonna look after the kids ? Plenty of kids still living in adoption centers already. No point filling it up if enough people aren’t adopting.
My mother was sat in the court when Grese was sentenced. She was part of the British medical team sent to Bergen-Belsen after its liberation.. She was 19 years old when she went to Germany
H, please tell us more about her experience. Share whatever interesting you know ...
@@WorldHistoryVideos Joined up as ATS and was then attached to the RAMC as a medical orderly. She was the medic for her ATS comrades. On the liberation of the camps, volunteers were asked for from the female members of the RAMC and she stepped forward along with many others. One Dakota ride later she was in Germany and Bergen-Belsen. When she had leave she went to the Nuremberg Trials to try to get closure on what she had seen in the camp
@@machendave What did she tell you about Bergen-Belsen? We made a few video about guards serving in this camp, it had to be hell on earth ...
@@WorldHistoryVideos They dressed the children and babies in nice clothes, mothers were taking the clothes off the kids and trying to barter them for food with other mothers. The same with cosmetics. She said the worse thing was the smell, it got everywhere. And of course the deaths did not stop with liberation hundreds died every week at first. She ended up with PTSD.
@@machendave :( true ... situation at Bergen-Belsen was pure hell ... when we first saw uncensored footages from Bergen-Belsen (with dead bodies all around, we cannot show them in our videos), it was horrible ... we could not sleep for many nights ... we always wonder her how people could survive this and stay " normal " .... we can never let this happen again ...
Greetings to you and your family, thanks for sharing this part of your family's story with us.
What a life she lived, to die at 22 years old with the cruelty inflicted on so many people. Monsters are real.
Irma geaser (areal beast & ugly besides. Some movie star HAH! She may have had something to do with Anne Franks death, since Anne died @ Bergen belson camp hospital just before liberation.
Only Anne Frank became the STAR of National Acclaim!
This is what “education” and indoctrination does. See how Russians think of Ukranians and the West. Why is that, you think? It is also what Fox News tries to do to the American public with their never ending lies every day.
She is surely in Hell, reeping what she sowed.
@@annetierney42 Very possible indeed .. Poor Anne Frank 🙏
Being sent to your death 16 times, then saved is probably worse than dying. That's incredibly traumatic.
She tortured and killed people in unimaginable ways and yet when it was her turn she said "quickly". Makes you sick
Makes me sick that some people believe these death camps never existed. They are hateful and ignorant. This was a dark time in this world. Sadly most kids now aren't taught about this era. This period was a horrible and dark times. Kids need to be taught not only about current issues, but to also make sure that we never forget that there was evil.
The reason why subjects like this aren't taught anymore is the direct result of the agendas of local school boards. There's a reason why people show up to school board meetings and voice their anger and concerns at what is happening.
I'm assuming you are from the USA. Trump separated immigrant children from their parents and put them into concentration camps (not death camps, but still). It's not like there *was* evil, there *is* evil. Fascism is going strong in America and all over the world. Be ready to fight it.
I'm in Europe. WW2 and the Nazi regime with its horrific crimes is still taught in schools and I can't imagine it will ever not be taught.
I don’t think anyone is saying the camps didn’t exist.
Don't teach this to kids, young adults yeah but not kids man
Absolutely CHARLES!!! keep this channel going. It would be a sin to sugar coat any of what happened. It would be so incredibly disrespectful of all victims of all camps. Alive or deceased. 😢 ❤❤❤❤
Horrible evil ()itch! Sorry, not sorry-whenever I think I’m incapable of being shocked by the cruelty of which human beings are capable, a sickening story like this comes into my awareness.
As horrific as these stories are, they *MUST* be told and remembered! Thank you for your service to all humankind by making these videos!
May the Almighty bless you and yours and your vitality important work.
These things are still happening and the people are proud and think they're special, privileged and superior. It's bizarre, kids are not being spared .... they're being pedophiled 😢
17 of my relatives were murdered in the holocaust. Education like this video is vital to learn from history so that it may never be repeated.
Amen to that Isaac!
Yea but its a shame that so many jews are doing the same to Palestinians
It's sad that it's now used to justify palestinian genocide and not as a lesson. Not to disrespect the victims of the holocaust though RIP to your family members 🙏🏼
The German people made many changes to stop it from happening again. New laws and education. It's probably very difficult for some Germans born after the war to come to terms with the fact their own people did this. It would be hard to believe if there wasn't so much evidence of it. My condolences.
It is happening again in Palestine, but nobody cares
This is what hate and division can lead to. Its terrifying to think that there are entities sowing that hate and division today knowing that this is a possible outcome 😢
Thankyou. Although it was horrible the pictures and narrative was very illuminating 😢
Even if her evil were to be ignored I can't see the term "beautiful" being applicable. She was a very harsh looking woman.
It is all relative. She was just better looking of the rest of the DOGFACED women.
Sadistic murderers such as this subhuman usually have harsh looking cold eyes.
Yes definitely wasn't good looking 😂
I am glad I wasn't the only one to think that
Josef Kramer ,the commandant of Auschwitz, was transferred to run the concentration camp at Bergen - Belsen. His cruelty there led the inmates to give him the moniker (“the Beast of Belsen”). Belsen concentration camp inmates referred to Irma Grese as (“The Hyena”) a more fitting moniker. The press gave Irma the “Beauty of Belsen” nickname during the Belsen trials. I guess the trials of “The Beauty and the Beast” made for more sensational headlines. The inmates nickname was more apropos.
My grandad was in WWII, his unit was one of those that discovered Bergen-Belsen and his unit had to dispose of those 13k+ unburied corpses (and those that died after liberation), we only found out he was there a few years ago, and looking back it's no wonder he never talked about the war or much of anything he did during it and instead would stare off into the distance and go *very* quiet. I dread to think what sheer horrors he witnessed with his own 2 eyes...
My grandad’s brother was also there, and only spoke about it at the end of his life. He was obviously disturbed by what he’d witnessed, and something else too. Let’s just say that not all the German guards stood trial.
True
Horrifying!
Have you proof of this?
@@RK-kr5jj proof of what?
I recommend "Night and Fog" (1956). I was shown this film at age 15 (1975) in preparation for a production of "Anne Frank's Diary." It is a short French film that combines footage of empty concentration camps (post-war) with historic footage from these same camps, while filled with Nazis and prisoners. It is prophetic: "Who is on the lookout...to warn us of the coming of new executioners? Are their faces really different from our own?"
As a German, I am so disgusted by what the Nazis did. I recently visited Bergen Belsen Camp and said a prayer in the gas chamber and in the cemetery for all the innocent people who lost their lives in this way. I'm not really a believer in god, but I thought it was important to say a few words at that moment. I will visit more camps and keep saying prayers.
PS: Sorry if my English is bad. Hope you can still understand it :D
Respect.
Pitchen You are a good Human, remember You are not guilty.
Love really is the key
ironically many real believers in god died in the concentration camps - seems either god didnt give a toss about the actions of the nazis or didnt exist or is merely a cruel god
I'm part german, I don't feel guilty. I wasn't there and I didn't participate in it. What other people do does not determine my character.
Better spoken than many of my fellow Americans.
You can see in her eyes how sick that woman was. Even without knowing who she was, just looking at her eyes one can see that there is something really bad in her, as well in the other women at the trial.
Hmmmm k
Pure evil
She was demon possessed. They all were. Only demons would compel people to kill others like they did.
@@MaxStArlyn bro 💀
@@MaxStArlyn you sound as sick as her
Dang, she was only 22 years old. She caused so much misery in her short life.
I had seen photos of her over the years and assumed she was , at least, in her 40"s?? Hatred does age people?
@@suzyfarnham3165 no war and imprisonment ages people.
Watching the SS guard at Auschwitz petting his dog and rubbing his ear as the dogs tail wags happily from affection from its owner is such a wild sight. It's shocking how well the Nazis compartmentalized and speaks a lot about what the human psyche is capable of. He had kindness and gentleness for his well taken care of dog who obviously loved him back but did not have kindness for the prisoners of the camp.
It's fascinating how people can actively commit horrific things that cause unfathomable pain and suffering but also have those special to them that they care for. It's like how serial killers have whole families with a wife and kids that they would never harm.
Thats why dogs are stupid
It’s similar to a story that I heard from a Holocaust survivor. He talked about the Buchenwald zoo and how the guards would feed the bears steaks and how their wives and children would come see the animals. He wondered what the children thought of the prisoners behind the barbed wire, if they thought of them as animals. He also described an incident where two guards tied up a deer by its antlers with a leather strap, and how they left it there for hours. When they come on, don’t heard about it, punished the guards for that, but never for hurting the prisoners. It’s strange. They couldn’t be cruel to animals, but they were allowed to be cruel to people.
thank you for an interestingly made documentary
It is hard to believe such evil exists in human beings. These kind of documentaries need to be shown in schools so that this type of evil never repeats itself. Unfortunately they no longer teach history like this.
Why? Humans have been evil since humans showed up on this planet and it continues to this day.
History always repeats its self .
Nope! No longer are American kids being taught ACTUAL HISTORY! No history about slavery or it's reaches into society. Just act like it never happened!🤦♂️
@@bryanbenson6551 ???
It’s happening in Ukraine, and North Korea, as we breathe.
It is appreciated when y’all go back to an earlier release, and flesh out in meticulous detail the true character of the despicable Nazi. This channel is truly a gift.
Well said brother.
I agree...
An epiphany would be to teach this to humans at school like it was taught to me in the late 80s...
Now better blur the lines of reality and create the petre dish for more evil so future generations can call democracy pathetic and more evil than nazis
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3:50 I almost cried, I’m from Cuneo Italy and very few people died in the camps. It really moved me to see a picture of a woman in my home town.
My mum was in the Signal Corps with the Australian Army during WW2.
It was compulsory for them to watch the reel of the Allies entering Bergen-Belsen.
Many that were battle hardened were in tears and vomiting, it was just that hard to process how this could be done to another human.
I worked with a Czechoslovakian woman who had the numbers on her arm. I think she was at Auschwitz. But she never wanted to talk about it. Older and wiser, I wish I had known her better. Her and me would just quietly go about our duties in a Microbiology lab and talk about nothing in particular.
thank you for sharing
….and yet there are still people who deny any of this ever happened.
@Bynggo I know someone who believes it's all lies. Makes me sick when I think of the atrocious actions of others to another human being. Even an animal for hell sakes.
@@cindyknox4226 We should never forget the atrocities that were brought upon millions in the Pacific area either. But that discussion is for another day.
In this case we should just focus on the horrors of the concentration camps.
@@Bynggo any of what ever happened?
Imagine being saved 17 times by the most brutal person in the camp. Damn...
Right? Must of been awesome looking like her sister at that time
I'd be so confused and a bit scared if it were me like, "if she's saving me from gas what more horrible thing does she have planned?" Unless not only did Irma save the girl, maybe she was kind to her during conversation as well since she stated the girl reminded Irma of her sister.
Saved? What??
Was she truly being saved every time? Or constantly terrorized?
@@joaquimrodriguez8961Watch before commenting!
How do people like this exist? 😔 I felt like vomiting when I heard what she did, and had to run it forward. As someone else said, respect to her father. Everyone in the world needs to know that these things happened and we need to do everything we can, as a human race, to make sure people like this are never allowed to inflict their evil on the world again. With that in mind, it's truly concerning that the WEF's Klaus Schwab has so much power over elected officials that he is shaping the agenda of the world. Elections at least ensure accountability, and stories like this remind us why that's important.
Plenty of people have had traumatic & abusive background but they don’t turn into beasts like this woman did.
People like this are everywhere in all rungs of society, in all cultures, and the monstrous side will easily come out when the conditions tip just a little in the wrong direction.
Sorry, not true. You're trying to justify Nazi Germans.
You are totally right on this point - psycopats keeps getting born and the way its going with all the conflicts and wars on earth there most be lots of killers and tormenters born to annoying making , they strive on unrest like the nazies do.
very well said..
@@silentwitness4843 ?? 😂😂
Happening in this scanademic, Genocide in the UK London
So basically she was bullied a lot growing up and when she finally got power over people who can't defend themselves, she brutally beat them, forced them to do horrendous sexual acts and killed multiple people out of pure jealousy? Tells me she was always a monster, it's scary that a human could do that to another person and feel no remorse. I watch these and hope that people learn from the past and don't repeat it.
Much agreed, people really need to watch and learn so that they know how to do it right for the next time!
Ummm shouldn't that tell you that she was made into a monster by the bullies?? i feel as bad 4 her as everyone else
@@michaelarnold1897 nah
@@michaelarnold1897 Michael, you may have a very valid point, although that would appear not to be within the aim of this video's very precisely directed message.
@@despicabledavidshort3806 thank you for your insightful well-thought-out response
She said "quickly ", what a devil till the end without remorse.
I’ve never felt so sick from watching a ww2 documentary, their is so much of this war and terrible things that happened that I didn’t know, I still have no idea how people can do this to others and children, the human species are the worst things that could have evolved on this planet.
My great uncle died in that place. As a medical guinea pig. Has left a huge scar on our family. Devastating.
I am so profoundly sorry.
@@TJamesBell I appreciate that, thank you. The only reason I mention it is to say that regardless of who you are, there is always that possibility of being brutalized. He was a German Catholic, and after a mental breakdown was classified as an unfit human. They came and took him away, a 17 year old signed his torture/ death warrant. Hitler appointed that young man. He liked his looks. All manner of people were tortured to death. Including German people. I just want to caution the world. It can happen to all of us.
I am so very sorry for your loss. You are also correct, it could happen again.
@@flood1417
You are correct.
Flood14, I am so sorry (and angry!) to learn of your great uncle's suffering.
Apparently she asked an inmate what she was going to do now that the war was ending and that she herself was looking forward to going home, her insane mind actually thought that everyone would go back to doing what they were doing before the war
@@MaxStArlyn did you want a video or a handwritten confession lmao
The Bible says: VENGEANCE IS MINE SAYETH THE LORD. It was a glorious relief indeed when it had been seen how HE carried it through!
@@bonniekonjevich7574 it took him a while
Evil does not age well, Irma was 22 when she got the rope, you would swear she was in her 40s at the end.
Monsters like this are alive and well in this society. Just give them a chance with the right leadership.
Power is the absolute beast. It reflected the inner monster that hidden in a human body who got so easily influenced by and turned them to extreme level that they themselves never realized.
There are people like her walking free amongst us today and always will be keep your eyes and mind open people
Correct. They are called Antifa in the USA and they have hundreds of supporters called Democrats in the US congress.
@@lennym1636 Democrats and the dictatorship of left wing
Congratulations, you just made yourself look liek a completely ignorant fool. i bet you believe everything the media tells you too, don'tt you? Only the media that leans more towards your side though.
I’m sorry you feel that way.
One day (maybe) you might realize that people can disagree with you politically and not be nazis.
@@Ecthelion_2nd no need to be sorry you only have to listen to the news and hear real horror stories and the ordinary people who you think care about you then turn 4 no reason life I'm afraid
She did not become famous in film, but she is infamous in film.
She is famous in hell were she belongs 👹
2:00 “The censors removed books from the classrooms”
Now where have i heard that recently???
The guy with artificial hands at 5:15 is Harold John Avery Russell.
January 14, 1914 - January 29, 2002, who had nothing to do with concentration camps. Russell was a U.S. WW II, Army Demolitions Instructor who lost his hands in a TNT explosion when a defective fuse went off too soon. After the war, he played in 1946 "The Best Years of Our Lives", with Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, and Virginia Mayo. Harold Russell played Petty Officer 2nd Class Homer Parrish earning him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Later on in life, he sold that "Oscar" (I'd of done the same thing, it's just a statue that actors like, no big deal) Anyway, he was just a good guy who lost his arms in an accident.
Thinking of what would shape someone into that kind of person is unsettling.
I had to stop listening midway to get my composure back, but realized, I cried from the very beginning. These atrocities are too much to hear, but we need to hear it, see it, and recognize when it's happening so that we can speak up and hold those criminals accountable.
Hey. Little eye opener for ya.
They still happen. Just not on the same level of production as German. But it still goes on. Evil has no restraints.
Good die young ..evil lives on...
Humans by our ideology are always evil. Or our propagation is evil..in the end democracy and capitalism will out do the deaths of the ww2...100 years from now when we are all farmers and subsistence survivors we will remember the stupidity of the last 2 centuries....and cry again for war under the guise of whatever banners the new ruling class fly in the name of whatever they want...I say always greed...in ww4 partially humans ..."the reverse of that great tide" zarathustra...will kill with their hands and teeth..
We are killers..denial of our genetic psychology is not good...
Too bad many deny that and many more things.
@Michael Gerber yes sir it is. I know a few people, ones that are still around. Who served in Nam. They have told me some things that I would have never thought of, going on during their enlistment years. You can't blame them. But neither can one overlook or excuse them for their actions. I would like to tell you, but some of it is a little gruesome for youtube
@@Lingchow1 ?
my God, this is so sad. These poor people, the unimaginable pain they went through.
Monster female! Can’t imagine the horrors and suffering the poor prisoners must have gone through. Heartbreaking..
"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn" Robert Burns.
I read that a lot of camp survivors died from over eating months after being liberated. Their frail bodies just couldn’t digest three meals a day.
Omg
Yes! Doctors soon started to realise they had to feed the frail survivors solids on a little and often basis.
They also realised they had to hold them for many months for satisfactory weight gain before their onward journey.
I watched an interview of a American Soldier who thought himself and others were doing a good thing by giving them what they had on them. He gave a starving man a half eaten ‘chocolate’ he had in his pocket. I think he called it a Ration-D. It was a protein ration type of chocolate.
Anyways, the man ate it and became violently ill, vomited and apparently his heart stopped from the stress. He said of all the horrid things he witnessed that was the worst. He said he continues(it was a very old interview) to pray to God for forgiveness. This poor man prayed for forgiveness for thinking he was helping and this devil beast of a woman seemed proud of herself. I swear eventually when I make it to Heaven and she’s there because God forgave her, me and Jesus are going to have to have a talk.
The shot of the man with two arm prostheses (at about 5:14 in the film) is taken from the Hollywood film 'The Best Years of Our lives' (1947). The actor's name is Harold Russell. He was not a professional actor; he lost his arms in a navy training accident. Beautiful movie. Russell, the amateur actor, won an Oscar for his role and the movie itself won best picture. Obviously, this shot got mixed up with the documentary somewhere along the line. The shot itself is only a few seconds.
CZcamsr ran out of Raul Julia photos for his little documentary here.
Excellent movie! Another really good one that I saw recently for the first time was Mrs. Miniver.
I noticed that too.
There's only one word to discribe Irma. Evil. Pure evil. Imagine someone so awful that even her fellow nazi monsters thought her behaviour was exessive. Bloody hell. I can't wrap my head around how anyone could do any kind of harm to any other human being, much less the horrors that were forced upon the poor people in the camps. Evil.
very informative video! thanks for sharing
Those images should never be blurred. People need to know and see the horror so true evil is never allowed to flourish again.
I agree, but CZcams is a punk ass bitch 🤷♂️
It's out of respect for the victims, not to shield anyone from the truth
There are plenty of pictures to find out there not just from that horrible event but even more recent ones like Vietnam and Iraq. A fair warning however what you see can not be unseen. Evil is *everywhere* , it's in our human nature.
No, @@christopherborum6551 , it is to keep from getting de-monetized.
agree
I visited Bergen Belsen in the spring of 2012. I drove there from Denmark where I was living at the time. I was surprised at how poorly signed up it was. I think I drove into the entrance of a nearby British army base by mistake looking for it. There was a large party of German teenagers who were behaving very disrespectfully inside the museum. I complained afterwards by email to the museum but never got a response. It is very moving to walk in the camp grounds (no buildings remain) and visit the communal graves of those who died there.
Alan, you did a good thing going there and saying sth after having witnessed the behaviour you described. What impression did you have besides this? What was the exposition like? We were in Neuengamme lately, it was finely done ...
@@WorldHistoryVideos I don't remember being very impressed by the exhibition. There was very little context - just a few exhibits in glass cabinets. But that was in 2012 so maybe it has changed. I was so surprised at how poorly signed-up it was as a place people might want to visit.
Hard to imagine anyone being so cruel.
Well, it is the humanity, soooooo....
Oh, you have come across many of the likes of her in your life. They just don't have the opertunity to do what she did. Give them absolute power, and they will be just like her.
Sometimes All it takes is for wanting to have a respectful society and having gang members and others, you pick, and I could see myself wanting to establish order and resorting to something like this. But definitely not to that extent. There is a point I wouldn't go beyond. But that's me, couldn't speak for others.
There’s also Amon Göth
Wow. I’ve read about and watched docs about her, but this was definitely the most detailed account. Great job!
This is what a person can become when an inherent capacity for evil meets tragic life circumstances.
She was born on the 7th of October 1923. Exactly 100 years before the biggest attack on jews since WW2. It's an evil day!
Just shows you how people can easily change when they have the power to do anything without repercussions
I bet her dad didn't shed a tear either.
Nope I bet he just wished he could have whooped her one more time....
Honestly, I can't imagine how disgusted her parents must've been to see their kid turn out to be such a despicable monster.
For his wife who committed suicide due to his affair?.Or when he brutally use to beat her ?
Brutally compared to what she did to others? I don't think so.
Her father was clearly a smart man when I came to the truth - I don’t condemn DV but disowning her for what she did is something I would thank that man for
I am so sick of the Nazi. I can't image how evil and toxic some humans are
I read of her depravity from some literature my father brought back in the 60's from his stint in the US Army while stationed in Germany and I was too young really to read it - it was far too adult in nature. It was so horrible and depraved what Irma and Mengele did with some of them that the stories have haunted me for almost 50 years and I didn't know if they were true or not. When later I found out it was all true it shattered my soul and Irma's deeds still haunt my dreams and nightmares.
Bullied people can grow up to be worse bullies .
Bullying did not cause this. There is no excuse for the evil she perpetrated.
@@eavi1653 mistreated children often grow up to hurt others and that’s a fact . I agree she’s evil. But it starts somewhere
Yeah he pathetic father taught her well
@@bobbicatt i can relate
I faced bullying too
@@eavi1653 except it did. Do a little research on any serial killer or criminal like Irma Grese and you’ll find that they experienced childhood abuse and alienation.
Now I have found this one! My Grandfather was one of the first tanks into Belson. As a Jew it was .................. I did not know this until he told me the story in hospital three days before he passed away. Great documentary, thank you.
Great videos.. Can you make a story about Antonina Makarova...
Things like this still happen to this day all over the world.
I absolutely love this channel. The amount of information you get on these psychopaths, in astounding! Keep up the amazing work!
I read Five Chimneys for my Holocaust class in college and let a coworker at my summer job borrow the book. She read it within a couple days (like me) and she found it super upsetting. it's such an amazing book, it should be required reading for senior highschoolers. We were forced to read the diary of Anne Frank in middle school, but Olga's book had such a deeper impact on me and my understanding of the Holocaust.... I still think about that book regulary.
I enjoyed watching this! Her plants are just beautiful and healthy ! I can't wait to grow some poppies next year.
Thanks for the video and information. Appreciate the dive into history!
The photo you had of Bogumila made me curious and I wondered if there was any chance she had survived all of these disgusting experiments on her. It turns out that she wasn't even a Jewish prisoner she was a Catholic from Poland Hood gotten caught working for the underground. Or at least that's what she was accused of. She survived all of these experiments even having to go to work after coming out of a coma she was able to get messages to people in Poland about what was going on and the Red Cross actually got involved and tried to get the prisoners who had been experimented on out of Ravensbruck but the Nazis wouldn't let any of these so-called rabbits go because they needed to keep the experiments secret. There was a date set to execute all of them but she was able to hide and not die from a firing squad. Instead they sent her and several others onto a death march in the guise of allowing them to return to freedom in Poland. They were not expected to survive as most of them were in pretty bad condition but I believe they may have all survived. She dead anyhow and live to the age of 80 years old. next time I'm bitching about something petty I need to remember this woman.
my grandfather was a medic during the war was at Dunkirk and liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
She was 22??? Jesus Christ, I was not expecting that.
It’s heartbreaking what happened to so many innocent people but it’s even worse to know a woman could carry out such horrendous crimes. What happened should never be forgotten.
Evil has no gender...it just is
Countless people getting cut open under full conciousness, removing bones, or breaking them with hammers,... killing of children, injections of toxic and caustic chemicals,..
And you say that the perpetrator being a woman is the worse thing? Seriously messed up reasoning there, wtf is wrong with people today?
Huh they are plenty of evil women right here in america and all over the world . Women way more evil than any man.
It has already been forgotten in the U.S. We're following the same script all over again...
How idiotic to think that women would be any less evil than men by principle. Women can be oftentimes even far more cruel and sadistic than men.
These types of atrocities occur whenever people lose all sense of compassion and caring for others. I have, quite fortunately, met only a few people in my life who were either incapable of hiding it or proud of their own evil. The eyes truly are the mirrors to the soul.
+ a system that supports that behavior / justifies it etc
@@maris6823In college, I met and talked to someone in a history class, who's half Japanese, and one of his relatives going back to WWII was forced to serve, along with most, and he saw and did more bad things in the eyes of survival and survival for his family.
One other person, a girl who was always speaking up about the atrocities of war and how bad it was (yet we were in an History class and war is a part of our history too), and who could be quite annoying at times, basically asked him why he didn't just refuse. The guy basically turned to her and said, "Wars will always happen between two sides who have radically different views." Then he also said something that stuck with me, "If someone points a gun at your mother's head and says 'join us or she dies' you will do the same and join the fight willingly. So as to allow your own family's survival."
Also, the fact that she probably, most likely, abused those girls in any sadistic way she wanted, that she targeted because of jealousy, just says she is what I call an empty beauty. One who is nothing but pure evil with a pretty face.
The fact that if you were homosexual and a prisoner, you were getting beaten and THEN the gas chamber. Nobody regardless of sexuality should ever have something like that happen to them.
My Grandmother's brother was in the British 11th Armour Division. I had the pleasure of meeting him for the first time in the late 80's at the Labour Club (NA.'s call it the Legion Hall/Club), In a small town in England, as we drank a beer together he talked about their Unit liberating Bergen-Belsen and his first entrance into the camp. He talked about the stench, the sight of people with bones sticking out of their skin, etc. how he threw up, then fell to his knees crying at what was before his disbelieving eyes. His mate helped him to his feet as they cried together. He felt so helpless. They had heard stories of such camp's but everyone in the different armies never believed the stories as did the English people, that a nation could be so cruel to other humans, even during war time. May all the people who suffered so before their death's RIP. Never to be forgotten.
Remember watching a documentary about Eric Winkle Brown (famous test pilot) who interrogated her & Goering amongst other Nazis & he said what a horrible human she was.
The line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man, without exception.
Unimaginable, unbelievable and yet true! There is hardly a week where I don‘t think of these poor, innocent suffering, tortured to death and gassed people (of every age). Pure horror!
You need a new hobby
@@jjtrucker5950 And that would be which one?
You need a different hobby then, because "fetishizing the Holocaust" isn't doing much for your mental health.
Thats nothing comparing to what the japanese have done.
@@ibringthelastwords1358 I know about that as well. The same words of mine criticize the Japanese crimes as well. People were killed in a most cruel way! This was an awful crime as well!
22.. She looked about 50.
What sources did you use for the video?
Thanks for another insightul video.I guess it can't be easy having to read about the depravity and suffering whilst researching and for that my fellow Brit,I too my hat.
It was a very demanding video! She was a really evil person ... horrible ...
@@WorldHistoryVideos She was a...typical GERMAN.
Without knowledge of this horrible tragedy it can happen again. Constance vigilance is required.
It is required more than ever because it is so close to happen again. It is one law away to imprison and treat the same way white straight male.
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If this was in 1935, and she was born in 1923, she would’ve only been twelve when she started working there, not 15. Unless you meant she started working in a later year this wouldn’t make any sense.
To the people that falsely believe that the murder of 6 million innocent people never really happened...they should be made to sit and watch every goddamn piece of film footage from that horrific time in our history. The cruelty is unfathomable...NEVER AGAIN!
Scary.... humanity can be scary. I am glad that I was not around yet to experience any of that. My grandmother lived, she her sisters and mother were hiding and running. They missed the big part of the fighting and the cruelty, but they knew hunger and how it felt to have nothing.
Don't worry, we have hormone blockers and medical surgery for children from approving adults supplied at education camps called schools. Humans love to experiment on each other. You go on the internet and I'm sure you'll find far more sexual deviants out there that's becoming normalized.
If you’re American, you did. You survived Roe.
Humanity can be scary but Germany is an absolute beast when it comes to genocides.
Trumpy Bear is still alive so the terror is always looming
Imagine how these poor victims must have prayed to god for deliverance from this man made hell, but for all who died their prayers were never heard and never answered. I spent nearly a full day at Auschwitz in 2014, it changed me and my faith forever.
This life is only a short blip in eternity.
When I knew evil and what it could be, then on the contrary, I came to God, because He promises that there will be no more evil and tears.
@@lesjohn534 I can assure you it wasn't a short blip for those poor people in those Nazi prison camp. How dare you make such an absurd statement.
@@patbrennan6572 Here is what I actually said, "This life is only a short blip in eternity." That is to honor those who prayed believing in a life beyond this one. Who am I to dare disrespect them or those who survived and wrote their stories of their belief in God amid such atrocities.
@@lesjohn534 Got ya, have a nice day bud.