The HORRIFIC Executions Of The Female Guards Of Bergen Belsen - Full WW2 Documentary

Throughout the Second World War, there were many female guards who worked inside of concentration camps at sites such as Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz. Following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, there were a number of women who were accused of being guards and of horrific crimes such as execution, torture and inflicting mass suffering. After the war at the Belsen Trials, Irma Grese, Johanna Borman and Elisabeth Volkenrath who had all worked at Auschwitz were condemned to death for their involvement of crimes in both camps.
The three women were all taken to Hamelin Prison and they were held for a number of months before the executions were performed by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. The women were led into the execution chamber and were swiftly walked up the stairs of the gallows before Pierrepoint secured the rope and then released the trapdoor.
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[@MsFukeneh]

Horrific executions? They were faster and kinder than what these women did to so many

[@Veritas1164]

I agree

[@missdaisy7576]

Amen!

[@verityfairbairn1571]

Yes Mr......! Nasty NASTY women....pigs! Maybe an insult to pigs

[@jenniferngure1136]

Thinking the same....

[@Cluedin369]

Seriously.

[@lvncr]

Nothing horrific. They had quick deaths and had burials - their victims suffered long tortures and were piled up like garbage when they died. They all had it super easy.

[@helenmclean2754]

Thank you for putting this video up. The murder of ten million innocent men women and children should never be forgotten.

[@davidfrager8234]

My great uncle was Nuremberg prosecutor John Lewis. My cousin still talks to that last prosecutor who just past. Sad I never took my chances to meet him. On my other side, my mother was a Holocaust refugee. I watch your videos cause of the details. You do a thorough job. Thanks.

[@verityfairbairn1571]

Wow that's an amazing thing. Thank god we can show the generation now this realness...this was how people were living....it should make them appreciate how they are able to live now. Keep your chin up. We can't change it but we can hopefully make some understanding about humanity. ❤

[@gregcugola779]

'Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets'. Bacharach. Hal David. You don't know what you don't know, until you know what you don't know...!!! And so it goes. Billy Joel.

[@emilholingher3530]

Germans are evil..Even TODAY..they did not change a bit.Same brutality,evil,arrogance.

[@PPuffNstuff]

​@verityfairbairn1571 here in America we have our own Hitler. Named Trump. Hoping we can beat his current run for potus and NOT repeat history.

[@jeancater1388]

Not horrific. They were monsters.

[@Melody-ki1sr]

Not soon enough nor painful enough. There can never be a cadre of murderers like the barbarian SS guards again. If only there was a HELL...these beasts would receive no "mercy"...just eternal damnation.

[@thomaskeil1437]

These women's names are often spoken of because their identities are well-known. They are well-known because not all their victims were murdered and some lived to tell what they endured and were witness of. BUT, seemingly countless of their lesser-known peers did manage to escape, flee back into relative anonymity, largely because there were few who survived to accuse them.

[@Gravelgratious]

There is a 97 year old woman on trial right now for her part as an SS guard in WW2. Forgot the name.

[@taotaostrong]

Excellent point.

[@thomaskeil1437]

@@Gravelgratious it's increasingly difficult to find either victim or perpetrator now from WW2. I'm of the conviction that ultimately, no one escapes justice. No one gets away in this life without meeting their maker.

[@marjorjorietillman856]

The ones that weren’t judged here will stand before God in the judgement. This is for those who believe in God, if you don’t, saying there’s no God won’t convert me! I also believe a lot of them escaped judgement!

[@thomaskeil1437]

@@marjorjorietillman856 I'll go with eventual punishment in a higher court with witnesses with impeccable memories and iron clad proof.

[@Dr.Pepper001]

The executions were not horrific. They were glorious.

[@kerryschallon8879]

My ex wife's grandmother was a inmate at this camp. She was the strongest yet most caring woman I've ever known. R.I.P. Babcia.

[@jbrobertson6052]

I can't even fathom the Horrors that she and others had to go through and had seen what the others went through, Kudos to your ex wife's grandmother she must have been one strong woman

[@gih3297]

My Babcia was too. Fiercely caring lady but didn't put up with shit.

[@lisasmith767]

If you can survive that you can survive anything. You wouldn’t worry about much in life after that. This would give you more freedom.

[@lindaallen7165]

Bless her sweet heart ❤

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

RIP 😢

[@vickiewallace415]

If one is a History/WWII nerd then these stories have been told before but I LOVE this channel

[@BrianHayter-zl2uc]

Me too

[@taras6806]

'Nerd'? No it is vital (perhaps literally) to remembe and for the vast majority of us learn. Nothing nerdish about that. Not necessarily through this channel, there are many more informative.

[@purplepoppyz]

Nothing horrific about the deaths of these vermin.

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

Exactly

[@kb9053]

They all should’ve suffered the exact same fates as their thousands of victims. Beaten, starved, humiliated and then some.

[@taras6806]

That is not the mentality of someone who has respect for human life unlike the Nazis though I absolutely understand the emotional reaction.

[@joan5856]

Execution was an easy way out for their chriminals. They should have been imprisoned and treated them in a civilised manner by keeping them in constant fear of what might happen, on minimal stale rations for at least 5 years and then released. Their powers would be greatly reduced.

[@FoFri85]

Never copy them.

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

Yes yes yes

[@monikaquinton]

No. Humans don't get better when they suffer the same treatment they have done to others... and it would make us their torturers.

[@Susanmarie65]

You may want to reword the title - it sounds like you think the guards had horrific executions when they in fact were the doers of many horrific executions in the camps

[@denisethomson815]

HORRIFIC??? Anice clean hanging..no where near horrific enough for what these pure evil specimens did to there victims!

[@stinar37]

My thoughts exactly. Who cares what happened to those evil 🤬

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

Don't give a f---

[@jensenwilliam5434]

Thank you for your videos to keep history alive!!

[@dalovelee666]

I can’t comprehend how these women harbored so much evil within them. How do you get raised a child to grow into a sadistic monster. And then they sit docile at their trial.

[@angelabennett8245]

They got good paychecks.

[@rbarnett3200]

I don't understand why we consider it so outrageous that women could/can be cruel. They're not a seperate species. They don't exist outside of humanity. They have equivalent impulses as men. Let's not pretend that their brutality is x2 just because they're women.

[@helenmclean2754]

Give a woman with a propensity to control and domineer and you will have a far greater menace than a man. Ever worked under a lady Boss?

[@jennyhaynes2478]

It's called misogyny. Men can get away with acts of evil and they're just "boys being boys" but women cannot as it's seen as being against feminine nature and therefore far more abhorrent than when men do it.

[@Ann-st8et]

I agree. There are women who are as hard, ruthless and cruel as men. They're no different.

[@fonzaug3355]

wrong. statistically, women are far less likely to commit violent crimes compared to men. Women make up only 5% of people in prison, compared to 95% which are men. That says it all. That suggests that testosterone has a lot to answer for....without males, society would be almost crime-free.

[@chipperP]

As a social worker, who has dealt with (and worked alongside) thousands of women….. I agree. Women are not AUTOMATICALLY kind and soft. They can have PROFOUND motivations to please others or show others how strong they are.

[@user-xn3ks1tl1f]

I visited Bergen Belsen when I was 18. Knew hardly anything about it. It looked very different then, just a big wide open space, surrounded by tall pines, with heather covered mass graves, each containing thousands of bodies. You could see the outline of where huts used to be and there was a commemorative wall with inscriptions from Nations. So actually nothing much to see & no information anywhere. BUT what I picked up on was an evil atmosphere; all my hair was standing on end. I got a very bad feeling all over and felt quite unwell. You could reach out and grab a handful of pure evil, it seemed. I had to lie down when we got home and was shaking for ages. My first experience of Nazism shook me to the core.

[@beginnerbuglady]

I'm going to Auschwitz birkenau next month and am both looking forward to and dreading it, most of the people I know who have went say you can feel the unhappiness in the air, the birds don't sing and you have a presence of those who passed around you. I'll still go to honour them and I'll be ready to face those feelings if it keeps their memories alive ❤️

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

Oh my God you were so brave. 😢

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

​@beginnerbuglady good luck you are brave 😢

[@lindapollitt7910]

I visited Auschwitz in 2013. There is a lot to see still there. I can't describe the feeling it gave me. I was with 3 friends and for the rest of the day we hardly spoke to each other, we were each with our own thoughts, words seemed meaningless. It has stayed with me ever since.

[@lindapollitt7910]

​@@beginnerbugladyI've been to Auschwitz. It was not easy but I'm glad I went. It seemed as if I was bearing witness to all the poor souls who suffered and died there. I felt it was the least I could do. It's life changing really.

[@kimleone5496]

Change this headline. What these guards did to the innocent people in these concentration camps and in these cities and towns is horrific. The hell the concentration camp inmates went through is beyond comprehension.

[@callyann5227]

It wasn't horrific , it was justified!

[@gailcaldwell1512]

It will always be so troubling and disturbing how humans can treat other humans with such barbarity. Satan will be bound and destroyed forever one day.

[@prahamama8915]

Look. Today. Murder. Fast. Slow. By. Injection including. Babies. What. Is. That. They still walk and. Eat. Drink. And tell you. Sorry. Deplorable. Just. Bugs. For your family🦂🐍⚰️

[@gih3297]

How silly

[@michellescarborough16]

@@gih3297 Your so lost!

[@gih3297]

@@michellescarborough16 you can't spell

[@lauriebrunk5933]

You are sooo right!! Thank God, He is the victor and judge over all evil. And one day it will all end!

[@JaneA544]

I have no sympathy fir those guards

[@ray7419]

Great to see you combined these into a longer video. 👍

[@terryjacob8169]

Nothing particularly horrific about these executions. Standard, British, long drop hangings,with death almost instanteous. Performed by a master of his craft, Albert Pierrepoint. My father was an official British Army witness to at least one of these women's execution and always maintained this form of execution was way too good for these people.

[@ivansalazar5448]

These horrible witches should have been starved very slowly to their deaths.

[@christineduffy3113]

Imagine you were a soldier sent to Belsen Autchwitz to free these poor souls what a shock it must have been because many people didn't believe these camps existed I read somewhere that these soldiers were traumatized and it could happen again some human beings are pure evil

[@lornabeltrami5919]

These are the faces of evil. What they did to people were horrific. Their execution was necessary.

[@theeyebrowsofcharlesbarkley]

I concur

[@fonzaug3355]

They remind me of some former colleagues...equally heartless and brutal and a complete absence of humanity. Thanks for the upload. :)

[@Ann-st8et]

Like MTG.

[@user-xk2ig4tc3f]

Where on earth did you work???

[@thepromise522]

May all of them rot in hell. These are horrific humans. What they did was absolutely inhumane.

[@p.j4545]

Hanging was far to good for these hateful women they should have been given the same treatment they dished out to others.

[@joannelwatson5066]

I completely agree. They should have suffered before hanging. My late Step grandfather was a Belgian POW and he told my father just a little of what they went through; starvation, beatings, medical testing etc. God willing these monsters are still being punished for their crimes in Hell

[@p.j4545]

It was so bad what these monsters were capable of. your grandad is a hero in my eyes Joanne and in your to i imagine. x

[@butterfliesarefreetofly6964]

I completely agree!! These women were evil from birth to their death.

[@klausrain111]

they might have been forced to do these things. does that make them victims?

[@butterfliesarefreetofly6964]

These women were just plain evil! They didn’t deserve anything after they were jailed. It sickens me to know that these gross beings did this to other women & girls. Just disgusted by them!🤬🤬🤬

[@mindlerj]

Read Bill O'Reilly's Killing the SS to read what disgusting individuals ran those concentration camps. How can anyone ever deny the Holocaust?

[@aliciacoble7854]

They got what they deserved ...The Frank girls were there

[@billyshane3804]

They deserved the LASH and the BIRCH before short drop neck stretching.

[@jenniferfloyd9179]

I think they should have been starved and then put in the gas chamber themselves they should have been treated the same way that they treated the Jews 😢 I think their punishment was to easy

[@robertsistrunk6631]

No tears where shed.

[@johnmason9655]

Just read a book about Irma Grese. Unbelievably heinous, cruel and sociopathic.

[@local4075]

What book?

[@johnmason9655]

@@local4075 It's called The Beautiful Beast.

[@christineadam6764]

No sympathy for these war criminals. To hell with them.

[@lisamitchell7548]

Her behavior is what was horrific

[@mjef3695]

Seems like I’ve seen this story. But, appreciate keeping this information as a learning tool for others, who may have missed it the first time.

[@monikaquinton]

What is there to learn from? I find the whole thing revolting.

[@juliapalmer2344]

My Dad was one of the Americans Soldiers that liberated this concentration camp he said it was horrible. He would never forget it. My Dad saw the lampshades made of human skin. He was mortified.

[@patty2020]

No he didn't LoL

[@219043204]

@@patty2020 you dont know you weren't there.

[@tamjansan1154]

He would be even more mortified to know those Nazis are saved and employed by US government institutions and corporations.

[@coffeecrimegal5968]

It was the British who liberated Bergen Belson not the Americans.

[@carinabackchristensen6330]

Not true. Its well known the British liberated Bergen-Belsen. Either you or your Dad is major liars. Appauling trying to taking credit for what others did.

[@duppyduppy01]

If there is a hell, I'm sure they are there where they belong.

[@rudem.2973]

I have never been to Hell. However; Before scientists knew about how hot the earth core is. Jesus Christ , soke about Hell. He said , there will be moaning and weeping and gnashing . Also I once had a very bad nightmare. I could not wake up. I dreamed I was falling and falling into this black tunnel . I could hear people screaming in pain and in agony. It was the night after watching the movie called the Exorcist . Also what was more frightening was the fact I had a glow in the dark Frankenstein , poster hanging in my room. When I forced my self to say , "Jesus Christ, please save me ". I woke up in a sweat . Since then I have been studying the Holy Bible. So because some people choose to live a life of sin. The Holy Bible says in Romans ,Chapter #6 verse #23. For the wages of sin is death , but the gift of God is life. The Holy Bible says : ( Thou Shalt Not Murder ). So now the murderers of this Nazi War that killed millions of innocent people . Are now dead. In their human body. Yet their real body is their soul. They can hear, they can feel . So now they are burning in Hell. They feel agony and none stop pain. They can remember everything they have did to innocent men women and children. After these murderers burn in Hell for one thousand years. Then God's Holy Angels will pull these people out of Hell. Then they will be brought nude and on their knees before Jesus Christ. Their entire human lives will then be reviewed . When their names are not found in the ( Lambs Book of Life ) then God's Holy Angels will throw these people into the ( Second Death ) . The ( Second Death ) is called the ( Lake of Fire ). God is all knowing. God is all powerful . God is every where at one time. After the seven years of world tribulation in the near future. The first two people to be thrown into the ( LAKE OF FIRE ) will be the False Prophet and the World Anti Christ . Then The devil will be placed into a pit of darkness for one thousand years. Before the seven years of world wide tribulation . The Rapture of the Church will take place. See : You Tube : Pre-Rapture Under Attack. By: Dr. Reagan . After Jesus Christ comes back , known as the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. He will destroy all the armies of the world that came against Israel at the ( Battle of Armageddon ). Then Jesus Christ will split the Mount of Olives. Jesus Christ will then set up the ( 1000 Year Millennium ). As this is set up. In this 1000 Year Millennium , there will be the ( ACADEMY AWARDS IN HEAVEN ON EARTH . Or called ( THE BEMA SEAT OF CHRIST ) some will be promoted to kings over nations. Some will be promoted to priests . After the ( 1000 Year Millennium ) natural people born in the Millennium will be tested to see if they really want to live for God. For those that choose to live in sin. Then fire will fall from Heaven and destroy these people. Then Jesus Christ will re-create the entire earth. He will make the entire earth like it was back in the Garden of Eden. Jesus Christ will destroy all weapons made for war. He will take away all sickness and all disease . There will be no more pain. No more suffering . No more hunger. God will remove the entire ocean. God will also remove death. In the new Heavens and the New Earth. If you might be intrigued in the study of the entire Holy Bible . From Genesis to the book of Revelation . Then here is the web site : www.joncourson.com I encourage you to get a note pad and a Large Print King James Holy Bible. When you go to this web site , please go to Bible Teachings. Please strive to study one or twenty chapters every day. To keep your place and take notes. This is why you need the note pad. This studying of God's Holy Bible , will help you to know and under stand the entire Holy Bible. Plus it will help you to memorize Bible Scriptures . Now to hear Christian Top Worship music. Go on this web site : www.KLOVE.com Then on this web site find the correct radio station from this web site to program your car radio to. God bless. Amen.

[@janistaylor4640]

Albert Pierrepoint was a master hangman. He calculated the weight, height and body type so that the execution was as quick as possible, unlike the short-drop hanging done from the back of trucks.

[@Mizzdr111]

Look, you do you. If we have to tell the story of Irma Grese over and over, that's alright. Best the stories be repeated and not history.

[@nadyarossi5102]

Well said!

[@kimclarke5018]

These women were likely sociopaths. Since he didn’t want go into the childhood can’t judge if they were cruel as children.

[@suzannenance955]

My father was in the second wave of liberators of this camp. Bergen Belsen.

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

God bless your dad but sad memories to all who seen the devistatsion. 😢

[@michaelkemp6857]

My father was also in the second wave of liberators of Belsen - he never forgot the horrendous scenes they were greeted with.

[@user-xk2ig4tc3f]

Poor man

[@rackets001]

Not very "HORRIFIC." Rather quick and to the point. Not at all like the months and years of torture they inflicted on others.

[@KL-tz3cm]

Why say horrific??? More like justice was served swiftly….horrific is what all their victims experienced!

[@ladyweasellou3367]

This wasn't horrific.... They SHOULD of been put-down in the ways they had murdered so many others.

[@PPuffNstuff]

Should HAVE or Should've. NOT Should of

[@johnpark-jones4285]

I’m pretty sure that Bergen Belsen was liberated by the British and not the Americans. I could be wrong but I lived in Bergen for many years.

[@Onel756]

You are correct , it was the British . I looked it up . Great memory .

[@blieb1973]

True. You can actually find videos on youtube about the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

[@richardhart9204]

... how could they ever believe they were going to get away with what they did?

[@Wodenson]

probably because sadly, too many of them did.

[@Radioactive_Rodent]

I love your chanel

[@thomaskeil1437]

Especially #5

[@thewavewitch3238]

Me too!!! But so sad that humans can be so cruel

[@chriso5374]

​@@thomaskeil1437Excellent 😅

[@dreamsrmadeof]

like men, women can and do the same horrible things.

[@martinarufarodzimbanhete3725]

They were very evil. You can tell by looking at their faces how evil they were. Sad they didn't go through the torture they did to thousands of jews and other war prisoners.

[@mrhamburger6936]

I don't know how many times these videos are been recycled

[@monumentofwonders]

A quick, humane death kind of cheated justice. Starvation would have been better, or starvation and savaged by dogs. Their crimes were so heinous that their punishment tries the humanity of the executioner, and makes us feel feelings that would never erupt under even ordinary cases of murder. Their evil is almost unimaginable. And thank God it is.

[@larrymoffett5123]

Thanks!

[@highmyope-ps2by]

The executions were not horrific. They were conducted by Albert Pierrepoint, who never bungled an execution. He realised that the prisoners could hear their graves being dug and protested, to no avail. He said in his autobiography that he felt sorry for them; they were pathetic. He said that Irma Grese was as bonny a lass as he'd ever seen. She stepped onto the trap and said "Schnell". These people were luckier than the criminals tried and hanged at Nuremberg, which was in the American sector. They were despatched by an American master sergeant who used the standard drop and the old cowboy coil. Wilhelm Keitel died of slow strangulation; his heart was still beating twenty minutes after he went through the drop. (Airey Neave's book about Nuremberg).

[@Karina-qd6ri]

Irma Gese, ive often wondered if her mothers death played a part, or if she was born a sadistic psychopath. But then given how many camp guards committed these acts it could all be in the indoctrination and training.

[@largeadam]

I am surprised these vile humans were given such a long drop, or relatively painless deaths. They should have suffered so much more, but sometimes an eye for an eye is impossible to achieve.

[@bcaye]

Bear in mind that being cruel to someone because they were cruel makes you exactly the same as them.

[@largeadam]

@@bcaye Absolutely, for much lesser infractions...these people didn't deserve anything less than what they received.

[@AzariahFox5370]

Wicked evil Satanic women who paid the price for their atrocities. Rest in peace the victims of Nazi cruelty.

[@danicalifornia505]

What happened to all the dogs that were used in the concentration camp? Like were all of them put down or put to work by the Allies or something else?

[@SP-xi4xd]

Shot dead

[@peterhughes8699]

Thanks for ditching your tedious time wasting intro's. This video is x10 better for it :)

[@user-op3zh5ur9k]

I wish sometimes I could time travel and go back in time and obliterate those soulless evil animals.

[@nannaMarie]

Hanging was too kind for these monsters.

[@monikaquinton]

You express here a misunderstanding and anger. They were human like you.

[@hlog3902]

True. People act like death penalty is inhumane. But hanging was very humane.

[@nannaMarie]

@monikaquinton They were nothing like me! I am not angry. I am disgusted by their cruelty, which was fueled by their own inadequacy in the real world. If they weren't different from most of humanity, then all of the guards would have been the same. They weren't.

[@lissalives1]

Man, Grese surely did make the rounds! She was at several camps. 😳

[@steveunderwood4003]

Gotta stay sharp..

[@h0rriphic]

Over 50,000 people were murdered at Bergen-Belsen. 💔

[@andrewayling5902]

The female guards execution wasn't horrific when compared to the crimes they committed. "If you live by the sword you should expect to die by the sword" in this case the hangman's noose. Wholly justified considering what they participated in. I'm not one for the death penalty usually but sometimes the crime or in this case crimes are so bad and the person lacks any sign of remorse for there actions, the criminal forfeits the right to live amongst the rest of us. What happened to the holocaust victims and survivors that was horrific,thats where my sympathy is and always will be.

[@theironmarshmallowg3932]

They didn’t suffer enough!

[@Trajan2401]

Torture should be a form of punishment it would deter people more than executions or prison ever does

[@monikaquinton]

NEVER torture anyone!

[@shonamcwilliam2842]

As much as i knew already about these crimes I had to stop watching. Knowing and seeing are horrific enough. Imagine having to live it. An old friend many years ago would tell me about his and his sisters' life in Sobibor. My heart would break. All survivors of these camps are heros.

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

That's about some EVIL ass women.

[@v.j447]

​@@heinigrudziadz4077get lost you despicable specimen.

[@Obiter3]

Boy the more I learn about these women, the more I think "Man, those gals are real jerks!"

[@jmw939]

What was much more horrific was what these women did.

[@karengutekunst]

Was the movie "The Reader" based on this?

[@MayorMcCheeseStalker]

If you HAVE to use the word “Horrific” in the title of this video, a better, less confusing title might be: “Female Nazi Guards Executed For Horrific Bergen-Belsen War Crimes”

[@hangedanchou]

horrific? horrific is what they did

[@Somelady464]

How? Could you take part in such cruelty? No matter the amount of ‘brainwashing’ wouldn’t you feel like it was wrong when you looked into the eyes of a victim? They should have all just been lined up in front of the firing squad SMH

[@yashathebelgianmalinois348]

Because they felt a sense of superiority and virtue. Their entire government shaped Their thinking/behavior through propaganda and conditioning. Mass psychosis took over as fear spread, giving many the sense of control and power over themselves and others. Because it provided them with a sense of belonging in the in group and identity in the current social system and their cultivated social contract that was strongly collective/state-based They thought they were justified because they thought they were right. The psychology behind this human conditioning and behavior has played out in societies throughout history and in very recent years as well.

[@funkc8074]

same with slavery. knew that blacks were human but did evil things towards then too

[@rkgsd]

You call title this "Horrific Executions" as if there's something wrong with the way they were put to death.

[@Venomn1]

They were pure evil. Hope they were tortured before they were executed

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

Oh I hope so to

[@alexbowman7582]

My uncle Samuel Boyle then a teenage HLI soldier (now dead, was born the same day as Queen Elizabeth) was a concentration camp guard at the end of the war presumably most likely at Bergen Belsen and he said they couldn’t let the inmates leave as many were sick from diseases and many were criminals.

[@georgehollingsworth2428]

I think that you need to be a bit more clear and let everyone know that your uncle was an ALLIED guard keeping the camp AFTER LIBERATION. i am a historian who has done work on this subject, and indeed many of the camps were kept open for medical treatment, quarantine reasons and because they had no where else to go. Usually, they were allowed to stay in the former German barracks where there was room.

[@alexbowman7582]

@@georgehollingsworth2428 HLI was the Highland Light Infantry obviously an allied unit. Many of the camps in the Russian zone were kept open as concentration camps for whoever they didn’t like.

[@georgehollingsworth2428]

@@alexbowman7582 I know, as I am a historian who has done a lot of work on the Holocaust. However you said he was a "concentration camp guard. ",not that he protected the liberated camp.Since 99.9 percent of laymen don't know what HLI stands for or the postwar history of the camps I thought clarifying that he was Allied would save you some grief.

[@alexbowman7582]

@@georgehollingsworth2428 which Holocaust have you done work on? The German murders of whoever they deemed which is said to be 6 million but probably almost 10 million if you include the Russians POW’s, the exporting of Bengal’s rice crops by Churchill in 1943 which resulted in an estimated 2 to 4 million Indians starving to death, the exporting of Irish food by the British which resulted in 1 or 2 million deaths, the few years following the 1857 Indian uprising which resulted in probably close to 10 million Indian deaths or the whole Raj period which resulted in the British killing mostly by starvation an estimated 60 million Indians although the exact figures are difficult to estimate accurately?

[@b.tilson5198]

@@alexbowman7582I apologize for my ignorance, but I didn’t know what HLI stands for, and was initially upset thinking you were defending a Nazi guard’s actions. I’m glad I read the reply below your original comment. I learned something new today.

[@contactohn7982]

After learning of so many camp guards and whatnot that escaped, it occurs to me that one way to capture a lot more could have been hundreds of thousands of german POWs march like 20 miles on a road lined by exprisoners. So many war criminals walked happily away, disguised as lower rank, etc. Thousands of those war criminals lived long and full lives. The western allies let them slip away.

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

Disgusting

[@PennyMaxted]

They also gave life sentences and let them out after a few years.

[@contactohn7982]

@@PennyMaxted Except for that "harmless" madman Rudolph hess in the spandau prison

[@judyhenney8695]

I had no idea about women being guards over there!! I found this video to be very interesting. ❣

[@Tsumami__]

Que the song He Had It Comin but with She instead of He

[@jackack1429]

Elizabeth Moss (physical appearance) could portray Grese in a film or series.

[@christians218]

Omgosh I was thinking the exact same thing watching her part!!!

[@blieb1973]

The executions were not horrific, they were a legal and logical consequence for the horrific and demonic actions of these women. They came from working class families who probably struggled until the Nazi regime took over. Then, these women were given a far more than average salary and power. I believe that giving formerly bullied or disadvantaged people power over other humans will never end well. Many prisoners of concentration camps said that, in the beginning, most guards were acting okay towards them, but they learned what was expected from them in a matter of weeks. They played along to fit in and some of them did extraordinarily well by becoming the most sadist individuals and gained a lot of respect from their colleagues that way. Let's educate our children, let's stand up against bullying and discrimination and let's not vote for politicians who discriminate against certain groups of people.

[@christinerowlinson9697]

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[@pollydickinson4789]

God have mercy on them and their defenders. But more importantly God bless all of those that were the victims of these tyrants. I cannot to begin to understand what you have gone through. Shalom to all of you victims.😮

[@robinblick9375]

What kind of god would show 'mercy' to these monsters?

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

What's horrific about it. Not painful enough for them

[@morbiundich803]

Hmm Bormann i have a Classmate his Lastname was Bormann...It is in the past so many years ago .And my granny and grand dad won't tell about the war my great uncle is lying in Hamburg .I and also my daughter worked for the Kriegsgräberfürsorge in England,Riga and Lommel

[@danicalifornia505]

What happened to those who put the tattoos onto the arms of the concentration camp prisoners? Same to those who inked the SS?

[@consonyastovall5858]

I read a book on them, it was called The Tatuer(sorry for the misspell). The Germans made prisoners do the tattoos. If they refused they were killed.

[@mariedupuis7802]

Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête...

[@CraigRasmussen1]

Horrific….my ass. They were hanged by Albert Perpoint….probably the best executioner in Great Britain. Prisoners dropped and their necks were instantly broken. Very clean and precise. Now if you want to talk about horrific….look at the hanging of the high-up Nazis at Nuremberg. The executioner…Sgt. Woods USA…was so incompetent that he short dropped them….causing several to take around 15 minutes to strangle themselves. Along with this…the trap door was too small….leading to a couple of them getting severe head injuries as they fell through the floor. All in all….it was a real shit show.

[@joellemalapert5781]

J'ai été visiter ce camp avec un des rescapé..... impressionnant 😢

[@angelabennett8245]

I know that whoever wrote this title really meant the horrific abuse and execution those female guards inflicted on their victims. It depends on how it is read. The title should read the horrific executions by the female guards of Bergen Belsen.

[@MelchizedekKohen]

@10:51 Does anyone know the woman on the left?

[@thomaskinne2357]

I was about to enter something, but I do believe MsFukeneh below, has expressed it best. Thank you!

[@suzanneforgione1018]

They deserved everything they got.

[@vickiheino1091]

As a human being, you have to wonder what drives people to this kind of depravity?

[@latinmonkey]

Nothing horrific about executing monsters, i’m pretty sure they didn’t give the female prisoners five star treatment.

[@michaelheller8841]

As for Grese and the other female pigs a hanging was not enough. But as an American today we would be going through very long trials with maybe a life sentence for their crimes. With Grese last word "Quick" I would not grant her that.

[@Happyheart146]

Pierrepoints method was too kind for these monsters. I would have ordered hung drawn and quartered for them.

[@sharongibson1161]

Good riddance

[@janetfrost2378]

I thought it was the Brits who liberated Belson camp

[@velvetalex4766]

It was the British 11th armored division. My great grandmother was a prisoner at Bergen Belsen. She met her husband that day. They reunited in France 4 months later and were married a year later.

[@gregcugola779]

Lest We Forget. Lest We Remember. The solution for humanity is to forget. It is in the remembering that we harbour revenge. Studying history so as not to repeat it didn't work. I know this is counterintuitive but we need to forget. Otherwise we will be forever condemned to repeat our mistakes. I do not know if this is even possible. But it is a thought. 11:06

[@gregcugola779]

The Swiss produced the gas that killed the Jews. Zyclon B. They were the Final Solution. The Swiss have a filthy history of collaboration and pseudo neutrality. Pro-Nazi, they bankrolled Hitler with hard Swiss currency CHF. Community Helvetic Franc. Laundering all stolen gold and looted art treasures. The world needs a country without a conscience. To hide its wealth. Switzerland is it. 'If the world is a whore Switzerland is its pimp'. They didn't like that. Swiss Family Robinson...?!!! Nothing could be further from the truth. You can stick your watches, chocolate, Geneva Convention and fondue where the sun don't shine. Utter frauds of the first order. When the remaining few descendants went back to Switzerland and knocked on their doors asking, 'where is our grandparent's money...?!!!' They were told. 'Where is your death certificate....!!!" Official Swiss Banking Policy...!!! And let us not forget Paul Gruninger the Swiss Schindler. Yes that's right, the Swiss Police Chief who saved three thousand Jewish lives, a hero in Israel. Unknown in the Western World.

[@glenn5903]

What goes around comes around!