SADISTIC BLONDE

Evening Star, Issue 25617, 18 October 1945, Page 5

SADISTIC BLONDE

IRMA GRESE GLORIES 111 DEEDS ADMISSIONS AT TRIAL (Rec. 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. Irma Grese, the blonde Nazi wardress, who was in charge of 20,000 to 30,000 women in Auschwitz concentration camp, described at the war criminals' trial at Luneberg how sho stalked about the camp armed with a revolver, stick and whip of plaited cellophane, and disciplined her charges with whippings. Asked whether the whip hurt, she replied defiantly: " Yes; it was meant to." .

She admitted having whipped prisoners when 3d,000 blankets were missing from the camp store. " I had a horror of the prisoners because they were so dirty and diseased, but I never shot at anyone." The prosecutor ended his 135 minutes' cross-examination of Grese with three questions':—Colonel Backhouse : " You entered the concentration camp service a frightened young girl, and found yourself for the first time in a position to strike people when they couldl not strike back ? " Grese: " Yes. It might have been I ■was frightened when a child, but I soon grew up." (Colonel Backhouse: "And you gloried in vour jackboots, pistol, and whip? " Grese: "Gloried? I could not say so." Colonel Backhouse: " And you beat and ill-treated the prisoners to such an extent that you were told to cease, but continued doing so." Grese: "I beat them, but did not ill-treat them." Grese admitted that when she returned home after her training course at Auschwitz and told her father what had happened there, he turned her out of his house.