Female Fascist Guards and Camp Auxiliaries
4 Episodes
Fascism demanded loyalty—and found it even in women.
Behind the gates and barbed wire, they enforced terror with chilling devotion, turning obedience into domination.
They beat, humiliated, and killed under the same banners as their male counterparts—proof that cruelty has no gender.
Some took pleasure in power; others hid behind orders. But each became a part of the same darkness that consumed millions.
These stories expose how ordinary women, seduced by ideology and authority, helped sustain a system built on pain—and how, in the end, not all of them faced the justice they deserved.
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The Beautiful Beast: Irma Grese and the Horrors of Auschwitz
Episode 1
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 fo... -
Cruel Beauty: Nazi Guard Jenny Wanda Barkmann and Stutthof Camp
Episode 2
Beneath her beauty hid one of Stutthof’s most feared guards.
Jenny Wanda Barkmann, known by prisoners as “The Beautiful Spectre,” became a symbol of cruelty inside the Nazi concentration camp. She beat women and children, sent countless to the gas chambers, and watched them die without remorse. H... -
From Housekeeper to Killer: Hermine Braunsteiner’s Path to Hell
Episode 3
She was called “The Stomping Mare.”
Hermine Braunsteiner, an Austrian woman who dreamed of being a nurse, instead became one of the most feared female guards in the Nazi camps. At Ravensbrück and Majdanek, she beat, whipped, and trampled prisoners to death — including women and children. Survivor... -
Cruelty Without Remorse: The Jasenovac Guard Maja Buždon
Episode 4
She was called the “Hyena of Death.” At just twenty-one, Maja Buždon became one of the most feared guards of the Ustaša regime in Croatia’s Jasenovac camp.
Behind her calm appearance hid a woman who commanded torture, killings, and unimaginable cruelty toward women and children. This film uncover...
