5 Female Nazis Who Committed Unthinkable Acts of Evil

These women will give you nightmares

A photograph of Irma Grese by an unknown photographer, 1945 (Wikimedia Commons)

The Nazis are the most infamous political party in human history. Led by a furious dictator, they turned Germany into a fascist state, started the Second World War, and murdered six million Jews.

Due to the Nazis’ twisted legacy, many of us are familiar with names such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler. But it wasn’t just the men who committed unthinkable acts of evil.

Though most people know very little about the female members of the Nazi Party, some of them were truly terrifying. Their crimes were brutal and sadistic, and reading about them isn’t for the fainthearted.

1. Dorothea Binz

A photograph of Dorothea Binz by an unknown photographer, 1947 (Wikimedia Commons)

Dorothea Binz was born in 1920 and grew up in a place called Försterei Dusterlake in northeast Germany. After spending time in the food industry, she worked in the kitchens at Ravensbrück, an all-female concentration camp to the north of Berlin.

Over time, Binz worked her way up and became one of the most notorious guards at Ravensbrück. She walked around the camp and attacked the…