Irene Haschke

Irene Haschke (born 16 February 1921) was a German SS camp guard within the Nazi concentration camp system during World War II, notably, at the Bergen-Belsen camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.

[1] Haschke worked in a textile factory until 16 August 1944, when she was recruited by the Schutzstaffel, more commonly known as the SS, and sent to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp for five weeks for training as a guard, or Aufseherin.

[1] She was transferred to the Mährisch-Weißwasser camp, at Bílá Voda in the Sudetenland, for three weeks as SS Aufseherin.

[1][2] Haschke was captured by the British Army on 15 April 1945 and ordered to bury the dead.

On 17 November 1945 she was convicted and sentenced to 10 years for her participation in these crimes and was released on 21 December 1951.

"These women are the equivalent of the men for brutality."
"These women are the equivalent of the men for brutality."