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Irma Grese

1923 - 1945

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Irma Ilse Ida Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp Helferin at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen. She has been widely known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz" and the "Beast of Belsen" for the atrocities she committed in Birkenau. Following the Allied occupation of Nazi Germany in April 1945, Grese was found guilty of war crimes involving the torture and murder of Jewish prisoners at the Belsen trial and sentenced to death by hanging. She was executed at the age of twenty-two, making her the youngest woman to die judicially under British law in the twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irma Grese is the 1,080th most popular politician (down from 1,038th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 287th in 2019) and the 79th most popular German Politician.

Ima Grese was a nazi concentration camp guard who was known for her cruelty to the prisoners. She is most famous for her actions at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Irma Grese ranks 1,080 out of 19,576. Before her are Attalus I, Zachary Taylor, Amanullah Khan, Nikolai Bukharin, Hasan Akhund, and Shoshenq I. After her are Baldwin I of Jerusalem, Peter I of Serbia, Childeric III, Constans II, Burhanuddin Rabbani, and Ferdinand VII of Spain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Irma Grese ranks 13. Before her are Idi Amin, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Heydar Aliyev, Charlton Heston, Joseph Heller, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. After her are Italo Calvino, Nadine Gordimer, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Rocky Marciano, Peter II of Yugoslavia, and György Ligeti. Among people deceased in 1945, Irma Grese ranks 20. Before her are Vidkun Quisling, Magda Goebbels, Subhas Chandra Bose, Francis William Aston, Wilhelm Canaris, and George S. Patton. After her are Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Clara Petacci, Ernst Cassirer, Pietro Mascagni, Heinrich Müller, and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Irma Grese ranks 273 out of 7,253. Before her are Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Max Stirner (1806), Max Scheler (1874), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), Oswald Spengler (1880), and Leopold von Ranke (1795). After her are Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016), Ernst Jünger (1895), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), and Wilhelm Pieck (1876).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Irma Grese ranks 79. Before her are Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744), Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1086), Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620), Alexander Van der Bellen (1944), Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), and Konstantin von Neurath (1873). After her are Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016), Wilhelm Pieck (1876), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Joachim Gauck (1940), Eduard Bernstein (1850), and Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811).

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