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demons: WACs posing with captured German medals they’d accumulated throughout their tour, 1945
houseofrandom: A bedraggled group of German soldiers return home after the disbandment of the Wehrmacht. Some returned from Siberia on foot and arrived in Berlin exhausted, hungry and desperate
houseofrandom: leaving Auschwitz
Female partisan, 1942. Photo by Arkady Shaikhet.
demons: Irma Grese, the “Mass Murderess” of Bergen-Belsen, during the Belsen Trial. As the Allies argued in their case—don’t let her appearance deceive you, Irma Grese was a woman with a streak of cruelty wider than the state of Texas. According to inmate testimony, Grese was fond of whipping inmates and was said to never have been without her boots, whip, or pistol at anytime. Witnesses say that Grese was inclined not only to go for the weak and sickly inmates, but purposely targeted inmates that she believed had “retained vestiges of their former beauty”. Fond of physical and emotional torture, Grese hand selected those for the gas chamber while at Bergen-Belsen as the women warden, and was said to have delighted in shooting prisoners in cold blood. Her trial took 53 days, and when the verdict was read she was found guilty. Irma Grese was executed on 13 December 1946 at 22 years of age, making her the youngest woman to die judicially under British law in the 20th century.
demons: German women wave goodbye to those they leave behind as they leave US internment. Most of the women interned in the camp survived in a desk position or at a camp.
ausschreitungen: Everyday I’m shovelin’. Ha!!
houseofrandom: Dropping bombs over Poland
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