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Criminal Broads

Hyena of Auschwitz: Irma Grese

Criminal Broads

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

They called her the Hyena of Auschwitz, the Beast of Belsen. In the midst of Hitler’s concentration camps, prisoners learned to spot her blonde head and translucent whip coming from a mile away—and hide.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed human.

0:04.4

Is it a sin?

0:06.9

Is it a crime?

0:09.5

Loving you dear like I do.

0:14.2

If it's a crime, then I'm guilty.

0:19.6

Guilty of loving you. I'm guilty, guilty of loving you.

0:24.6

Hello, welcome to Criminal Broads, a podcast that I would normally say is about wild

0:30.5

women on the wrong side of the law, but today's subject is so thoroughly atrocious, so horrible in every way that calling her a wild woman on the wrong side of the law feels a bit too flippant. So I'm skipping that today.

0:47.7

Yeah, you guys, we're going dark today. We're going very dark, very sad, very historical. We're going to delve into the big

0:57.9

crime event of last century, of the last millennium, actually. I'm doing kind of a two-part series

1:05.5

here. You'll see, you'll see, they're going to tie into each other. And today we're going to look at something

1:11.6

really horrible. And then next episode, we're going to look at something really cathartic.

1:17.9

So before I tell you more about today's episode, a little business up front. If you're like

1:22.1

in the podcast, please rate and review on iTunes. Follow Criminal Broads on Instagram where I

1:27.3

always post photos and snappy

1:30.5

headlines or whatever historical ephemera I can find of the Days Broad. And also please

1:37.4

consider becoming a patron on Patreon. If you go to patreon.com slash criminal broads, you will see that

1:42.6

there are several levels where you can sign up and support the podcast.

1:48.5

And now a quick word from our sponsor, and then we're going to get historical.

1:57.9

My fellow true crime podcast fans. I am not just a host of a true crime podcast, I'm an obsessive

2:06.4

true crime podcast listener, and I'm here today to pitch you Stitcher Premium. You probably

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