It was our duty to exterminate antisocial elements so that Germany’s future could be secured.

Justice finally caught up with Irma Grec when she was tried at the Bellson trial which began on September 17th, 1945.

During the trial, Irma Gracie laughed twice so loudly that she had to lean forward in the dock to try to contain herself.

She put her hand over her mouth while beside her, Ilsa Lo, her fellow Nazi, tried to hide her laughter with a handkerchief as the Nazi guard, Peter Vinegartner, 32 years old, said that when he hit a girl with a piece of rubber hose, it was the only time he had ever hit anyone.

Greece also laughed uncontrollably when the wife of Ysef Krommer, her former lover and former commandant of the Achvitz Birkinau camp, said that when her husband returned home from work at Achvitz, he would pace back and forth at night, tormented by the fact that Nazi commanders were sending people to die in the gas chambers, and he would cry out, “Why? Why? Why?” Other women, however, were less amused.

When Kramer’s wife left the courtroom, she was slapped in the face by a Polish woman.

During the trial, when witnesses stated that she was the worst SSwoman in the camp, Greece replied that they were all lying, exaggerating, and making an elephant out of a little fly.

In the end, however, she gave in and said, “I confess to the mistreatment of prisoners, for that lies on my conscience.

” Greece admitted to the beatings but denied ever killing anyone and added if prisoners got slapped in the face it was their fault.

If they were smarter they would obey orders.

When during the trial she broke down in tears.

It was never because she was remorseful for the crimes she had committed.

Once Irma Gracie cried when she heard her sister Helen telling the story of their domestic life in court and again later when she saw her 23-year-old brother Alfred who had been wounded twice while fighting on the Eastern Front.

On November 17th the British military court sentenced Irma Grace to death.

After the sentence was pronounced she looked dreadful and cried incessantly.

Her eyes were red and sunken, and she was extremely nervous.

Afterward, Irma Grace, who had never shown a shred of mercy to the prisoners she oversaw, begged for clemency.

But in early December, Field Marshall Montgomery rejected all appeals and ordered that Greece, Kramer, and others be hanged.

When she was hanged by British executioner Albert Pierre Point at Hamlan Prison on December 13th, 1945, she was 22 years old.

Walking to the gallows, her only and final word was Schnel, which means quick.

Grass was the youngest woman to be judicially executed under British law in the 20th century.

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