Towards the end of the Second World War, the British liberated Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, and they were greeted by a sight of death, disease and depravity. Belsen has gone down in infamy as a place synonymous with Nazi war crimes, but what shocked the liberators was the fact that many of the SS guards had remained inside the camp. Dozens of thousands of prisoners were left at the camp, and were slowly dying of disease and starvation, and around 13,000 dead bodies were unburied around the camp. The British acted to stop the Typhus epidemic that was killing so many, and then forced the Nazi guards to help to bury the dead.
Bergen-Belsen was a camp that became hugely overcrowded, and following its liberation a number of the guards who were arrested were brought to trial. What shocked many around the world was the fact many of the guards charged with murder and immense cruelty and brutality were young women. These women were placed on trial at the Belsen Trials, and many received prison sentences, but there were 3 despicable women who received death sentences and were executed by Albert Pierrepoint for their horrific crimes at Belsen and Auschwitz. Irma Grese, Elisabeth Volkenrath and Johanna Borman were sent to the gallows for their crimes against humanity. Grese was only 21/22 when she was executed, Volkenrath wasn't much older but the stories of their barbarism and violent tendencies resulting in the punishment and murder of prisoners shocked the court rooms. All 3 were found guilty of murdering prisoners with their hands of with weapons, and were even accused of setting their dogs on prisoners and shooting them indiscriminately.
It was British Executioner Albert Pierrepoint who took the lives of Grese, Volkenrath and Borman at Hamelin Prison. There were men sentenced to death and executed that day, including Josef Kramer the Beast of Belsen. There were other war crimes trials that brought other staff who worked at concentration camps to justice, but the events at Bergen-Belsen lived long in the memory and haunted many of the men who liberated the camp.
So join us today as we look at, 'The JUSTIFIED Execution Of The Female Guards Of Bergen-Belsen.'
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