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She was called “the Hyena of Auschwitz” — a young woman whose beauty concealed terrifying cruelty.
At just 19, Irma Grese became one of the most feared SS guards in Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen. Survivors remembered her whip, her dogs, and her chilling smile as she selected women for the gas chambers.
Known also as “the Beautiful Beast,” she embodied the perverse mix of sadism and vanity that haunted the Nazi concentration camps.
This is the shocking story of Irma Grese — from her childhood and rise through the SS ranks to her capture, trial, and execution at only 22 years old.

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00:00For Greza, the most frequent reasons to whip the prisoners, whether they stole food because
00:05they were hungry, or they showed up late for the roll calls during which they were counted.
00:10Nina Kaleska recalled,
00:12She would make us stand for hours at a time in freezing, horrible weather, or very hot weather.
00:18People would sometimes faint. She would trod on them. She would beat them. She would unleash her
00:24dog. She would punish people very badly. She was very cruel. She was extremely cruel and tortured
00:30thousands of people. After the war, Greza's explanation for whipping prisoners during the
00:37roll calls was that they were running to and from, and she could not count them properly.
00:43Discover the full story on worldhistory.tv
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