3 cases tagged “war crimes”
Convicted: Irma Ilse Ida Grese
Irma Ilse Ida Grese, widely known as the 'Hyena of Auschwitz' and the 'Beast of Belsen', was a Nazi concentration camp Helferin at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen. Her atrocities committed in Birkenau during the Holocaust period made her one of the most notorious female Nazi war criminals. Grese was convicted for crimes against humanity at the Belsen Trial in 1945 and was sentenced to death.
Convicted: Biljana Plavšić
Biljana Plavšić is a former Bosnian Serb politician, university professor, and scientist who notably served as President of Republika Srpska, a region within Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the Bosnian War, she was accused of participating in the planning, instigation, ordering, and execution of crimes against humanity, including genocide, extermination, murder, and other severe violations of international law. In 2003, Plavšić pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity and was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She was released in 2009 after serving two-thirds of her sentence.
Convicted: Ilse Koch
Ilse Koch, a German war criminal, committed horrific acts during World War II while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald concentration camp. Though she had no official position in the Nazi state, she became one of the most infamous figures after the war due to her involvement in atrocities. She was known as the 'Kommandeuse of Buchenwald' and was accused of taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates.
