That woman was nicknamed "the hyena of Auschwitz" or "the beast of Belsen" because of her particularly cruel and perverse behaviour towards prisoners. She remains one of the most famous Nazi criminals.
The young blonde with the pretty smile and murderous look is Irma Grese, but the inmates gave various nicknames to this supervisor from the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during the Second World War.
"The beautiful beast", a.k.a "the beast of Belsen" or "the hyena of Auschwitz", loved to whip the prisoners savagely or throw her guard dogs at them.
In March 1943, Irma completed her training and was transferred to Auschwitz camp as an Aufseherin (Hilfspersonal SS auxiliary guard); she easily rose through the ranks and became Oberaufseherin (head supervisor) in the fall at Birkenau.
When she was promoted in May 1944, she was in charge of more than 30,000 deportees, including 18,000 women.
Still in full swing, wearing make-up and perfume, this failed actress wandered leisurely among the ragged prisoners she looked down on and mistreated with sadistic pleasure.
She was executed in 1945 for crimes against humanity at the age of 22.
Ilse Koch, a.k.a "the Buchenwald bitch", is just as famous.
Wife of Major Karl-Otto Koch, that libertine used to explore the extermination camps of Buchenwald and Maidanek in search of tattooed prisoners.
Tattoo bearers were immediately executed, so that the tattooed part of their skin could be removed.
In order to make lampshades, gloves and handbags for her.
Sentenced to life imprisonment, she died in 1967.
Many other Nazi women helped their male counterparts to perpetrate the genocide.
Maria Mandl, for example, a.k.a "the fierce beast", commander of Auschwitz, sent an unknown number of women and children to death.
She sometimes adopted Jewish prisoners as "pets" before executing them in turn.
Alice Orlowski, a babysitter in Auschwitz, would throw the children at their mothers in the crowded gas chambers before carefully closing the doors.
Dorothea Binz, SS chief guard in Buchenwald, loved to torture the prisoners, whipping some of them to death, and killing the others with an axe.
So many women who cannot be described as "fragile".
In reality, not all German women were as bloodthirsty.
An impressive number of men perpetrated mass crimes, but sadistic women, on the other hand, were rare...
Most German women appear as victims who suffered greatly from the war: with the pain of separation, first, when they saw their husbands and sons go to the front, and then with the rapes and looting carried out by Red Army soldiers in marauding.
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