List Of Most Dreaded Female War Criminals

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Irma Grese

(Nazi Concentration Camp Guard at Ravensbrück & Auschwitz Who Served as Warden of Bergen-Belsen)

Birthdate: October 7, 1923

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Germany

Died: December 13, 1945

Irma Grese, or the Hyena of Auschwitz, served as an SS guard at the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Ravensbrück. She was also the warden of the ladies’ section of the Bergen-Belsen camp and ended up being convicted of torture and murder of prisoners. She was executed at 22.

Ilse Koch

(German War Criminal Who Became One of the First Prominent Nazis Tried by the U.S. Military)

Birthdate: September 22, 1906

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Dresden, Germany

Died: September 1, 1967

Ilse Koch was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps. Also known as Beast of Buchenwald, The Bitch of Buchenwald, and Butcher Widow, she was tried by the U.S. military for her sadistic abuse of war prisoners. She died of suicide.

Greta Bösel

(Nurse)

Birthdate: May 9, 1908

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Wuppertal, Germany

Died: May 3, 1947

Dorothea Binz

(Officer)

Birthdate: March 16, 1920

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Templin, Germany

Died: May 2, 1947

Hildegard Lächert

(Nurse)

Birthdate: January 20, 1920

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Berlin, Germany

Died: 1995 AD

Gudrun Ensslin

(Far-left terrorist and founder of the West German far-left militant group Red Army Faction)

Birthdate: August 15, 1940

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Bartholomä, Germany

Died: October 18, 1977

Wanda Klaff

(Camp guards)

Birthdate: March 6, 1922

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Danzig, Free City of Danzig

Died: July 4, 1946

Antonina Makarova

(War Criminal)

Birthdate: March 1, 1920

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Sychyovsky District, Russia

Died: August 11, 1979

Herta Ehlert

(Camp guard)

Birthdate: March 26, 1905

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Berlin, Germany

Died: April 4, 1997

Hermine Braunsteiner

(German SS 'Helferin' and Camp Guard )

Birthdate: July 16, 1919

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Vienna, Austria

Died: April 19, 1999

Maria Mandl

(Austrian SS-Helferin)

Birthdate: January 10, 1912

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Münzkirchen, Austria

Died: January 24, 1948

Herta Bothe

(Concentration camp guard during World War II)

Birthdate: January 3, 1921

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Teterow, Germany

Died: March 16, 2000

Hilde Liesewitz

(Schutzstaffel Guard)

Birthdate: January 31, 1922

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Grünwald, Germany