The Beautiful Beast: Irma Grese and the Horrors of Auschwitz
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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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