Belsen Trial Executions - Irma Grese, Josef Kramer, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Juana Bormann, Fritz Klein (Paperback)

Chapters: Irma Grese, Josef Kramer, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Juana Bormann, Fritz Klein. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Irma Ida Ilse Grese (October 7, 1923 at Wrechen near Pasewalk, Mecklenburg December 13, 1945 in Hamelin) was employed at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbruck, Auschwitz; and was a warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. Irma Grese was born to Alfred Grese, a dairy worker and a member of the Nazi Party from 1937, and Berta Grese. Irma Grese had four siblings. In 1936, her mother committed suicide. Grese left school in 1938 at the age of fifteen, due to a combination of a poor scholastic aptitude, being bullied by classmates, and a fanatical preoccupation with the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Madel), a Nazi female youth organization, of which her father disapproved. Among other casual jobs, she worked as an assistant nurse in the sanatorium of the SS for two years and unsuccessfully tried to find an apprenticeship as a nurse, after which she worked as dairy helper. Quoted below is Irma Grese's testimony, under direct examination, about her background: I was born on 7 October, 1923. In 1938 I left the elementary school and worked for six months on agricultural jobs at a farm, after which I worked in a shop in Luchen for six months. When I was 15 I went to a hospital in Hohenluchen, where I stayed for two years. I tried to become a nurse but the Labour Exchange would not allow that and sent me to work in a dairy in Furstenburg. In July, 1942, I tried again to become a nurse, but the Labour Exchange sent me to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, although I protested against it. I stayed there until March, 1943, when I went to Birkenau Camp in Auschwitz. I remained in Auschwitz until January, 1945. Having complete...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=24942