The Beautiful Beast: The Life & Crimes of SS-Aufseherin Irma Grese

By Daniel Patrick Brown

"The Beautiful Beast" documents in meticulous detail the extraordinary and frightening biography of Irma Grese. Born in a tiny farming community fifty miles north of Berlin, she became the ultimate feminine representative of the Hitlerian vision of the warrior-youth;indeed, with her blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes, Grese embodied

• Language: English
• Publisher: Albrecht
• Release date: Mar 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781732108851

Daniel Patrick Brown

Daniel Patrick Brown has authored several nonfictional works on world and U.S. history. He has also written a resource collection on all the female SS guards entitled "The Camp Women: The Female SS auxiliaries Who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System. Brown is a former docent for the L.A. Museum of the Holocaust and he served as an interviewer for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Project. He is now retired and resides in Bloomington, IN.

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The Beautiful Beast

The Life & Crimes of -Aufseherin

Irma Grese

Daniel Patrick Brown

Copyright © 1996 by Daniel Patrick Brown

All rights reserved. No portion of this biography may be reproduced—mechanically, electronically or by any other means, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system—without written permission of the publisher.

1st edition, May 1996

2nd edition, December 2004

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brown, Daniel Patrick.

The beautiful beast : the life and crimes of

-Aufseherin Irma Grese / Daniel Patrick Brown.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-930860-15-2

1. Irma Grese, 1923-1945. 2. War Criminals—

Germany—Biography. 3. World War, 1939-1945—

Atrocities. 4. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners

and prisons, German. 5. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

I. Title.

D805.G3B7459 1996

940.53’18’092—dc20

[B] 96-19330

CIP

Cover, Layout, Typography: René Mayfield

Front/Back Cover/Interior Illustrations: Wendell Dowling

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for the victims

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The Camp Women: The Female SS Auxiliaries

Who Served in the Nazi Concentration Camps (a Schiffer publication)

The Protectorate and The Northumberland Conspiracy:

Political Intrigue in the Reign of Edward VI

The Tragedy of Libby & Andersonville Prison Camps

Woodrow Wilson and The Treaty of Versailles:

The German Leftist Press’ Response

Giovanni’s Europe

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