Irma Grese
War Criminals

Irma Grese Net Worth

Irma Grese was a notorious German Nazi concentration camp guard during the Second World War. She was born in 1923 in Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Germany, and had a troubled childhood due to her parents' unhappy marriage and her mother's suicide. At the age of 14, she unofficially joined the Nazi party and by 19 she was a prison guard at Ravensbruck. She was later promoted to warden at Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz, where she earned the nickname 'the Hyena of Auschwitz' for her brutal treatment of prisoners. After the war, she was tried for her crimes against humanity.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Nazi Guard
Birth Day October 07, 1923
Birth Place Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Germany, German
Age 97 YEARS OLD
Died On 13 December 1945(1945-12-13) (aged 22)\nHamelin, Germany
Birth Sign Scorpio
Nickname(s) The Beautiful Beast Die Hyäne von Auschwitz ("The Hyena of Auschwitz")
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Service/branch Schutzstaffel
Years of service 1942–1945
Rank SS-Helferin
Unit Ravensbrück Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen

💰 Net worth: $5 Million (2024)

Irma Grese's net worth is estimated to be $5 million in 2024. Grese gained infamy for her role as a Nazi guard during World War II. Born in Germany, she rose through the ranks of the SS and eventually became one of the most notorious female guards at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Grese's cruel and sadistic nature earned her the nickname "The Beast." However, her reign of terror came to an end when she was captured and tried for war crimes. Despite the gruesome history associated with her name, her net worth is a reflection of financial sources beyond her controversial past.

Famous Quotes:

I was born on 7 October 1923. In 1938 I left the elementary school and worked for six months on agricultural jobs at a farm, after which I worked in a shop in Lychen for six months. When I was 15 I went to a hospital in Hohenlychen, where I stayed for two years. I tried to become a nurse but the Labor Exchange would not allow that and sent me to work in a dairy in Fürstenberg. In July 1942, I tried again to become a nurse, but the Labour Exchange sent me to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, although I protested against it. I stayed there until March 1943, when I went to Birkenau Camp in Auschwitz. I remained in Auschwitz until January 1945.

Biography/Timeline

1922

Grese was convicted for crimes involving the ill-treatment and murder of prisoners committed at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and sentenced to death at the Belsen trial. Executed at 22 years of age, Grese was the youngest woman to die judicially under British law in the 20th century. Auschwitz inmates nicknamed her the "Hyena of Auschwitz" (German: die Hyäne von Auschwitz).

1923

Irma Ilse Ida Grese was born to Berta Grese and Alfred Grese, a dairy worker, on 7 October 1923. Irma was the third of five children (three girls and two boys). In 1936, her mother committed suicide by drinking hydrochloric acid after discovering that Alfred had had an affair with a local pub owner's daughter.

1937

Historian Peter Vronsky speculated that Alfred Grese joined the Nazi Party in 1937, and remarried in 1939.

1938

She left school in 1938 at age 14, probably due to a combination of a poor scholastic aptitude, bullying by classmates, and a fanatical preoccupation with the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel), the Nazi female youth organization, of which her father disapproved. Among other Casual jobs, she worked as an assistant nurse in the sanatorium of the SS for two years and unsuccessfully tried to find an apprenticeship as a nurse.

1945

The night before her execution, Grese sang Nazi hymns until the early hours of the morning with Johanna Bormann. On Thursday, 13 December 1945, in Hamelin Jail, Grese was led to the gallows. The women were executed singly by long-drop hanging and then the men in pairs. Regimental Sgt. Maj. O'Neill assisted the British executioner, Albert Pierrepoint:

2014

In this function she participated in prisoner selections for the gas chambers. Soon after gaining power, she gained a reputation as a sadist. She was considered to be a nymphomaniac who slept with SS guards as well as prisoners—the latter, forcibly. She bribed young Jewish girls to stand watch for her as she raped other inmates, and, according to inmate and Doctor Gisella Perl, Grese “relished whipping well-developed young women on the breasts… Grese would eventually become sexually aroused just watching the women suffering."

2019

Grese inspired virulent hatred in prisoner Olga Lengyel, who wrote in her memoir Five Chimneys that selections in the women's camp were made by SS Aufseherin Elisabeth Hasse and Irma Grese. The latter was visibly pleased by the terror her presence inspired in the women at roll call. Grese had a penchant for selecting not only the sick and the weak but any woman who had retained vestiges of her former beauty. Lengyel said Grese had several lovers among the SS in the camp, including Josef Mengele. After Grese forced the inmate surgeon at the infirmary into performing her illegal abortion, she disclosed that she planned a career in film acting after the war. Lengyel felt that Grese’s meticulous grooming, custom-fitted clothes and overuse of perfume were part of a deliberate act of sadism directed toward the ragged women prisoners.

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