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Irma Grese... Belsen trial... Nazi Woman guard...
Item # 722508
September 27, 1945
THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 27, 1945
* Female SS guard Irma Grese
* Bergen-Belsen concentration camp trial
* Jewish Holocaust - exterminations - atrocities
* "Hyena of Auschwitz" - "The Beautiful Beast"
Page 12 has a one column heading: "BELSEN TORTURES BY WOMAN LISTED" with subhead. (see images) I suspect this is one of the few publications to report this particular event as other titles in our inventory do not.
Complete in 42 pages, light toning at the margins, very nice condition.
AI notes: On September 26, 1945, Irma Grese sat in the defendants’ dock during the Belsen Trial before a British military tribunal in Lüneburg, Germany, as the prosecution continued presenting evidence of atrocities committed at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen; dressed plainly and reportedly composed, the 22-year-old former SS guard listened as survivor testimony described brutal beatings, selections for the gas chambers, and acts of cruelty in which she was allegedly personally involved, including the use of a whip and dogs against prisoners, with witnesses identifying her by name and appearance, creating a stark contrast between her outwardly calm courtroom demeanor and the graphic accounts of violence attributed to her, while she maintained denials of personal wrongdoing and claimed she had merely followed orders—arguments that the tribunal would later reject when it found her guilty of war crimes and sentenced her to death.
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