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Irma Grese

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Irma Ida Ilse Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a female SS guard at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. [1]

47 relations: Albert Pierrepoint, Appeal, Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution', Belsen trial, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, British Army, Capital punishment, Elisabeth Hasse, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Executioner, Fanaticism, Fürstenberg/Havel, Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Female guards in Nazi concentration camps, Five Chimneys, Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Gallows, Geneva Convention (1929), Gisella Perl, Hamelin, Hitler Youth, Hohenlychen Sanatorium, Hydrochloric acid, Ilse Koch, Josef Mengele, Juana Bormann, Lüneburg, League of German Girls, Lychen, Maria Mandl, Military justice, Nazi concentration camps, Nazi Party, Nazi songs, Nizkor Project, Olga Lengyel, Out of the Ashes (2003 film), PBS, Peter Vronsky, Pierrepoint (film), Ravensbrück concentration camp, Sanatorium, Schutzstaffel, Suicide, The Times, Therese Brandl.

Albert Pierrepoint

Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was a long-serving hangman in England.

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Appeal

In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed, where parties request a formal change to an official decision.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.

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Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution'

Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution is a BBC six-episode documentary film series presenting the story of Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Belsen trial

The Belsen trial was one of several trials which the Allied occupation forces conducted against former officials and functionaries of Nazi Germany after the end of World War II.

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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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Elisabeth Hasse

Elisabeth Hasse (1917–1945) was a Nazi SS female supervisor and guard at Auschwitz.

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Elisabeth Volkenrath

Elisabeth Volkenrath (née Mühlau; 5 September 1919 – 13 December 1945) was a German supervisor at several Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

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Executioner

A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice.

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Fanaticism

Fanaticism (from the Latin adverb fānāticē (fren-fānāticus; enthusiastic, ecstatic; raging, fanatical, furious)) is a belief or behavior involving uncritical zeal or with an obsessive enthusiasm.

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Fürstenberg/Havel

Fürstenberg (formerly, Tornow or Tarnow) is a town in the Oberhavel district, Brandenburg, Germany.

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Feldberger Seenlandschaft

Feldberger Seenlandschaft ("Feldberg Lake District") is a municipality in the district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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Female guards in Nazi concentration camps

The Aufseherinnen were female guards in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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Five Chimneys

Five Chimneys, originally published in French as Souvenirs de l'au-delà (Memoirs from the Beyond), is the memoir of Olga Lengyel.

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Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

The Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Freistaat Mecklenburg-Strelitz) was a state of the Weimar Republic established in 1918 following the German Revolution which had overthrown the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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Gallows

A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging.

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Geneva Convention (1929)

The Geneva Convention (1929) was signed at Geneva, July 27, 1929.

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Gisella Perl

Gisella Perl (10 December 1907 –16 December 1988) was a Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women as inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work.

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Hamelin

Hamelin (Hameln) is a town on the river Weser in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (German:, often abbreviated as HJ in German) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Hohenlychen Sanatorium

The Hohenlychen Sanatorium was a complex of sanatoriums in Lychen, Uckermark district (a bit north of Berlin), Germany, that was in use from 1902 to 1945.

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Hydrochloric acid

Hydrochloric acid is a colorless inorganic chemical system with the formula.

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Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch (née Margarete Ilse Köhler; 22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967, known as the Witch of Buchenwald) was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald (1937–1941) and Majdanek (1941–1943).

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Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele (16 March 19117 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

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Juana Bormann

Juana Bormann (or Johana Borman; 10 September 1893 – 13 December 1945) was an East Prussian-born prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps, from 1938 and was executed as a war criminal at Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, after a court trial in 1945.

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Lüneburg

Lüneburg (officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg, German: Hansestadt Lüneburg,, Low German Lümborg, Latin Luneburgum or Lunaburgum, Old High German Luneburc, Old Saxon Hliuni, Polabian Glain), also called Lunenburg in English, is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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League of German Girls

The League of German Girls or Band of German Maidens (Bund Deutscher Mädel, abbreviated as BDM) was the girls' wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, the Hitler Youth.

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Lychen

Lychen, also known as Flößerstadt (raftsman city), is a town in the Uckermark district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Maria Mandl

Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin infamous for her key role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where she is believed to have been directly complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 female prisoners.

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Military justice

Military justice (or military law) is the body of laws and procedures governing members of the armed forces.

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Nazi concentration camps

Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager, KZ or KL) throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War.

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Nazi Party

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nazi songs

Nazi songs were songs and marches used during the era of the Third Reich in Germany.

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Nizkor Project

The Nizkor Project (נִזְכּוֹר, "we will remember") is an Internet-based project run by B'nai Brith Canada which is dedicated to countering Holocaust denial.

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Olga Lengyel

Olga Lengyel (19 October 1908 – 15 April 2001) was a Hungarian Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, who later wrote about her experiences in her book Five Chimneys.

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Out of the Ashes (2003 film)

Out of the Ashes is a made-for-television movie that was released by Showtime.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Peter Vronsky

Peter Vronsky is a Canadian author, filmmaker and investigative historian.

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Pierrepoint (film)

Pierrepoint (titled Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman for North American release), is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint.

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Ravensbrück concentration camp

Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel).

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Sanatorium

A sanatorium (also spelled sanitorium and sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the late-nineteenth and twentieth century before the discovery of antibiotics.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as with Armanen runes;; literally "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Therese Brandl

Therese Brandl (1 February 1902 – 28 January 1948) was a Nazi concentration camp guard.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Grese

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