Execution Tales Chapter 52 Part 2 Revision 2
Forum Home > Public : Stories > Execution Tales Chapter 52 Part 2 Revision 2Page: 1
Irma Grese
Irma Grese was a 22 year old SS volunteer, concentration camp guard & sadistic killer & torturer of untold numbers of innocent victims at Auschwitz & Belsen. She had been nicknamed the “Beastess of Belsen” by the British Press, whose readers followed with revulsion the revelations, often by herself, of the activities of this innocent looking blonde butcher.
During her trial she appeared in pictures however not as she had hoped as a heroine in a love drama but as a monster in the newsreels as her trial progressed.
When the President of the court after a trial of 53 days pronounced the verdict “It is the sentence of this court that you suffer death by hanging” the listening free world was satisfied that a small measure of justice had been done.
The beautiful blonde looked the picture of Nordic health when she faced Albert Pierrepoint, the official hangman for the British War Crimes Court, on that cold December morning in 1945.
Seconds later her slim neck broken she was dangling like a discarded doll in in the pit below the improvised gallows in Hamelin’s jail in the British zone of occupied Germany.
Irma Grese was a 22 year old SS volunteer, concentration camp guard & sadistic killer & torturer of untold numbers of innocent victims at Auschwitz & Belsen. She had been nicknamed the “Beastess of Belsen” by the British Press, whose readers followed with revulsion the revelations, often by herself, of the activities of this innocent looking blonde butcher.
During her trial she appeared in pictures however not as she had hoped as a heroine in a love drama but as a monster in the newsreels as her trial progressed.
When the President of the court after a trial of 53 days pronounced the verdict “It is the sentence of this court that you suffer death by hanging” the listening free world was satisfied that a small measure of justice had been done.
The beautiful blonde looked the picture of Nordic health when she faced Albert Pierrepoint, the official hangman for the British War Crimes Court, on that cold December morning in 1945.
Seconds later her slim neck broken she was dangling like a discarded doll in in the pit below the improvised gallows in Hamelin’s jail in the British zone of occupied Germany.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
Page: 1
Forum > Public / Stories > Execution Tales Chapter 52 Part 2 Revision 2