Josef Kramer
Born in Germany in 1906, Josef Kramer joined the SS and in 1934 began working with the concentration camps. He started out in the Natzweiler camp, but was later moved to Auschwitz where he became a commandant. He was also later moved to the Belsen camp. When the Belsen camp was liberated by the Allies there was over 13,000 corpses found. Josef Kramer was found guilty at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, and executed on October 1st, 1946.
Irma Grese
Irma Grese was born on October 7, 1923, in Germany. She was born into a farming family, and left school at the age of fifteen, in 1938. For two years she worked in a hospital, until in 1940, she started work at the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. In March 1943, Grese was transferred to the Auschwitz camp. She eventually became Senior SS-Supervisor, and was in charge of about 30,000 of the women prisoners that consisted of Polish and Hungarian Jews. Irma was known as an extremely violent woman to the prisoners of the camp. In 1945, Grese went back to Ravensbruck, before soon after being moved to the Bergen-Belsen. Irma Grese was sentenced to be hanged after being convicted in the Belsen Trial. She was hanged on December 13, 1945.
Herta Oberheuser
Herta Oberheuser was born on May 15, 1911, in Cologne, Germany. Oberheuser was a physician at the Auschwitz and Ravensbruck Concentration Camps from 1940 to 1943. In her time as a physician, she was known to kill children with the use of oil and evipan injections, and then take out limbs and organs. She was said to have tried to inflict pain on the prisoners that the German soldiers face in the war. To do this she rubbed the prisoners with splintered wood, rusty nails, and glass, then putting dirt or sawdust in the wound afterwards. In October 1946, in the Nuremberg Medical Trial, Oberheuser was given twenty years in prison, but was released in just 1952. After prison, she became a family doctor, until in 1958 when her medical license was revoked. Herta Oberheuser died on January 24, 1978.
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