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Irma Grese

Overview

  • Born
    October 7, 1923 · Wrechen, Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
  • Died
    December 13, 1945 · Hameln, Lower Saxony, Germany (execution by hanging)
  • Nickname
    • The Beast Of Belsen
  • Height
    5′ 5″ (1.65 m)

Biography

  • Irma Grese was born on October 7, 1923 in Wrechen, Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. She died on December 13, 1945 in Hameln, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Trademarks

  • Rebellious personality to the inmates
  • Beauty
  • Cruelty against inmates

Trivia

  • Was a supervisor at the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
  • In Hameln Jail, she was hanged by noted British executioner, Albert Pierrepoint on Friday, December 13, 1945.
  • According to her executioner, Albert Pierrepoint, as she was being led to the gallows to be hung: "She walked out of her cell and came towards us laughing."; her last word was, "Schnell!" - ("Quickly!").
  • The youngest woman to die judicially under English law in the 20th century.
  • Tried for was crimes and sentenced to death and executed two months after her 22nd birthday.

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