Hyena of Auschwitz: Irma Grese

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Meet Irma Grese. She likes boys, girls, movies, makeup, and sadistic torture. She hates her dad, but loves Adolf Hitler. This is horrific story of the story of how propaganda—and a large dose of teenage boredom—transformed an unskilled peasant girl into one of the Holocaust’s most successful concentration camp guards.(Become a Patreon supporter.) Sources: The Beautiful Beast: The Life & Crimes of SS-Aufseherin Irma Grese, by Daniel Patrick Brown “The Violence of Female Guards in Nazi Concentration Camps (1939-1945): Reflections on the Dynamics and Logics of Power,” by Elissa Mailänder in SciencesPo “Nazi Bride Schools: ‘These girls were the nucleus of the Reich,’” Telegraph, 16 August 2013 “Auschwitz II-Birkenau,” from Auschwitz.org “Life for young people in Nazi Germany,” BBC Bitesize, accessed 6/31/2019 “Gendering the Holocaust: A case study of Irma Grese: Constructing the ‘evil’ and the ‘ordinary’ through digital oral testimonies and written trial testimonies of the Holocaust survivors,” by Bianka Vida, Kaleidoscope Music: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer“Shake It and Break It” by Lanin's Southern Serenaders, licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License“Death Is Our Only God” by Silent Carrion, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a sin? A crime loving you dear like I do? If it's a crime then I'm guilty
0:10.1	If it's a crime, then I'm guilty guilty of love in you.
0:20.0	Hello, welcome to Criminal Broads, a podcast that I would normally say is about
0:25.8	wild women on the wrong side of the law, but today's subject is so thoroughly
0:32.0	atrocious, so horrible in every way that calling her a wild woman on the
0:38.4	wrong side of the law feels a bit too flippant.
0:41.3	So I'm skipping that today. 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 crime event of last century, of the last millennium,
0:58.1	actually. I'm doing kind of a two-part series here. You'll see, you'll see they're going to tie into each other and today we're going to look at something really horrible and then next episode we're going to look at something really cathartic. So, before I tell you more about today's episode, a little business up front,
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