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Vera Salvequart - war criminal. Ravensbrück concentration camp near Furstenberg in Germany was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women and also served as a training base for female SS supervisors. Some 3,500 women underwent training there. They then worked in Ravensbrück or were sent to other camps. The camp was established in 1938 and liberated on April 30th, 1945 by the Russian Army.  28 year old Vera Salvequart had not been an SS guard, but rather a prisoner herself in Ravensbrück. She was born on the 26th of November 1919 in Wonotsch in Czechoslovakia and had trained as a nurse. She had also served several periods in prison for having Jewish boyfriends. She claimed to have stolen plans for the V2 rocket and passed these to Britain.  She was sent to KZ Ravensbrück in December 1944 as a Kapo and worked as a nurse in the camp's hospital wing. Here, in February 1945, she was said to have administered poison in the form of a sleeping powder to some 50 of the patients, ...

Menstruation and the Holocaust Periods are a fact of life, but little talked about. How did women in the concentration camps cope with the private being made public in the most dire and extreme circumstances? Jo-Ann Owusu | Published in History Today Volume 69 Issue 5 May 2019 Assignment to Slave Labour’, Auschwitz, Poland, c.1940. Menstruation is rarely a topic that comes to mind when we think about the Holocaust and has been largely avoided as an area of historical research. This is regrettable, as periods are a central part of women’s experience. Oral testimonies and memoirs show that women felt ashamed discussing menstruation during their time in the concentration camps, but, at the same time, they kept bringing the subject up, overcoming the stigma that is attached to them. Typically, menstruation has been seen as a medical problem to be overcome rather than as a natural occurrence and a part of life. Medical historians, for example, have explored the forced experiments in sterili...

The brutal execution of Mr. Choi—simply for the “crime” of listening to the radio—is a stark example of the importance of USAGM programming abroad. Often, the reporting done by RFA & other services, & the open-source tools funded by the OTF, are the only windows people in repressive environments have to the free world. These tools and information are so precious to them that they access them even under the threat of death. North Korea Executes Fishing Fleet Captain for Listening to RFA An artist's depiction of a public execution by firing squad in North Korea. Reporting on a military rape case in Myanmar and a public execution in North Korea Authorities in North Korea executed the owner of a fishing fleet in front of 100 boat captains and fisheries executives for secretly listening to broadcasts by Radio Free Asia and other forbidden media outlets while at sea, sources in the country told RFA. The fishing boat captain, who picked up the habit of tuning in to broadcast...

Female Musician allows presenter to f!nger her on live TV (See Pics) A lady caused massive stir online when she did the unthinkable with a presenter on live television. Empress Vee is a young Ghanaian who aspires to be inducted into the Ghanaian Hall of Fame. She began her musical career in church, where she sang for about seven years and continues to sing at other events. The Ghanaian musician recently released a song titled ‘Me nant3m’. It’s an Akan term which means “between my legs”. Her brand style is quiet similar to Zodwa Wabantu who refuses to wear under-wears. Empress Vee, a singer and songwriter, demonstrates her private part in a live interview to prove she doesn’t put on undies Empress Vee’s case is different. She has decided not to put on any bra or any short wears. When she was asked the reason, she said “it’s normal for her family, both her mum and other siblings do same.” During the interview, she was questioned if she could show that she is truly pant-less. The...

What were some of the accusations against Irma Grese, and why was she nicknamed the "Hyena of Auschwitz" in WW2 history? Irma Grese, a female SS guard at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during World War II, was notorious for her cruelty towards prisoners, leading to her nickname “the Hyena of Auschwitz.” Grese was accused of numerous heinous acts during her time at the camps. One of the accusations against Irma Grese was her active participation in the selection process upon the arrival of new prisoners at Auschwitz. She was known to arbitrarily send individuals to gas chambers based on her own judgment, often targeting the weak, elderly, and children. Grese showed no mercy or remorse in carrying out these selections, earning her a reputation for being particularly ruthless. Additionally, Grese was implicated in numerous instances of physical and psychological abuse towards prisoners. Witnesses testified to her engaging in brutal beatings, shootings, and even ...

The most Cruel Nazi Female Guard  Irma Grese also known as Hyena of  Auschwitz was a prison guard in the concentration Nazi death camp during World War II. She used to sleep with Female prisoners and then sent them to the gas chamber in the next morning. She used her whip to punish inmates for breaking camp rules and if the woman was well endowed, she would whip her across the breasts to further humiliate. Many of the female prisoners developed infections from their wounds after her cruel act.  Grese also had dogs that she would order to attack an inmate who could not keep up in line. She enjoyed torturing people as that gave her pleasure. She even tied the legs together of a woman giving birth and watched the woman scream with pain. November 17, 1945, Irma Grese was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. The night before the execution, Grese sang Nazi songs and was unrepentant. Irma Grese was hanged on December 13, 1945. She was twenty-two, the youngest person e...

The woman who murdered her love's Wife and child  On December 23, 1890, an English woman named Mary Pearcey was hanged for the brutal murder of her lover's wife and child. According to authorities, Pearcey had thrown the baby into the street and then slit the woman's throat so deeply that she was nearly decapitated. Then at her trial, Pearcey said, "My sentence is a just one, but a good deal of the evidence against me was false." The meaning behind that eerie message remains unknown, but some claim that Pearcey was confessing to being the notorious "Jack the Ripper," who had butchered five women in London's Whitechapel District just two years before she was executed. In addition to her bizarre "confession," Pearcey's modus operandi was shockingly similar to the Ripper's. And shortly before her execution, she had placed a mysterious ad in a Spanish newspaper that read "M.E.C.P. Last wish of M.E.W. Have not betrayed." Some b...