Nazis
Ilse Koch
Ilse Koch was known as "The Witch of Buchenwald" because of her crazy inhumane ways (Wetherell). Ilse Koch was not actually a guard, but her husband was (Wetherell). She used her husband's power to create her own kind of cruelty. One way of cruelty that she used was to walk around naked and any person to look up at her would be shot on the spot (Wetherell). Another that isn't proven true, but was heard a lot was that Ilse would look at every prisoners skin to see if they had any interesting tattoos and if they did, Ilse would have them sent to the crematorium, skinned, and then have their skin made into lampshades (Wetherell). When World War II ended Ilse Koch was arrested and spent many years in prison (Wetherell). Finally, in 1967 Ilse Koch committed suicide in her jail cell by hanging herself, some say she did it because of the guilt consuming her (Wetherell).
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Joseph Mengele
Joseph Mengele was a physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp that was in charge of the selection of who should be gassed. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death" because he determined the fate of people and he also did cruel experiments on a lot of the prisoners. One cruel thing Mengele is known for, is gassing an entire hospital block filled with 750 women because they had lice (Froody). Mengele is also remembered for his fascination with twins and always experimenting on them. He is actually deemed responsible by some people for the twin town in Brazil where there was a huge increase in twins after he arrived. Mengele avoided being caught by the Allie forces after World War II because he fled to Brazil and that's when he "created" the twin town.
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Odilo Globocnik
Odilo Globocnik was a man in charge of several things for Nazi Germany, especially the liquidation of Ghettos (Froody). Globocnik's first liquidation was of the Warsaw Ghetto (Froody). The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish community in Europe with about 500,000 Jewish people (Froody). The next liquidation Globocnik was in charge of was the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, which was a tough one because they were strongly against German occupation (Froody). Globocnik was also in charge of the Lublin reservation where he foresaw the labor camps and the 45,000 Jews within the camps (Froody). After World War II Globocnik was captured, but shortly after he committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule (Froody).
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Oskar Dirlewanger
Oskar Dirlewanger was a World War I veteran and known for putting together a group of the most awful criminals for a military unit (Froody). After World War I Dirlewanger was sent to prison for raping two 13 year old girls, with this imprisonment, his title of Doctor was stripped away from him (Froody). When he was released from prison Dirlewanger fought in the Spanish Civil War where he regained his title after his enormous amount of bravery in the war (Froody). During World War II, Dirlewanger volunteered for the SS but then was given his own military unit because of his excellent work (Froody). Him and his group became known for torturing, raping, and murdering many civilians, and also giving captured females strychnine for entertainment (Froody). Dirlewanger was captured after the war by the French and the French gave him over to the Polish (Froody). The Polish then tortured and locked him up (Froody). Dirlewanger died in early June of 1945 from inflicted injuries by the Polish (Froody).
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Maria Mandel
In World War II, Maria Mandel was known as "The Beast" (Wetherell). Mandel went to many different camps during World War II where she held commanding positions before she was sent to Auschwitz to be a commander (Wetherell). Mandel is believed to be responsible for 500,000 prisoner deaths throughout the war (Wetherell). When Mandel was a commander, she always had a "pet", her pets would be a certain Jew she selected (Wetherell). When Mandel got tired of the Jew, she sent them to the crematorium and then selected another Jew as her "pet" (Wetherell). Another thing remembered about Mandel is that she put together a women's orchestra in Auschwitz and they sang during roll calls, executions, selections, and transports (Wetherell). After World War II, Mandel was caught and then executed on January 28th, 1948 (Wetherell).
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Alice Orlowski
At first, Alice Orlowski was seen as a cruel, heartless women, but by the end of World War II it seemed she had changed her ways (Wetherell). In the beginning when Orlowski was cruel, she would whip prisoners over the eyes (Wetherell). This whipping would cause extreme pain and it would make people unfit for work so they would be sent to the crematorium (Wetherell). Another cruel thing Orlowski would do was throw children on top of people being sent to the crematorium in order to create more space for other people (Wetherell). By the end of World War II when Orlowski kind of changed her ways, she comforted many prisoners, gave them water, and slept beside them on the ground during the marches (Wetherell). Even after her change, she still got life imprisonment, but she somehow got out after serving only ten years (Wetherell).
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Work Cited
Froody. "Top 15 Most Evil Nazis - Listverse." Listverse. Listverse, 21 Aug. 2010. Web. 13 May 2015. <http://listverse.com/2010/08/22/top-15-most-evil- nazis/>.
Wetherell, D. R. "10 Most Evil Women In Nazi Camps - Listverse." Listverse. Listverse, 30 Oct. 2012. Web. 13 May 2015. <http://listverse.com/2012/10/30/10- female-concentration-camp-guards/>.
Wetherell, D. R. "10 Most Evil Women In Nazi Camps - Listverse." Listverse. Listverse, 30 Oct. 2012. Web. 13 May 2015. <http://listverse.com/2012/10/30/10- female-concentration-camp-guards/>.