"Bitches of Buchenwald: Which death camp guard is the evil inspiration behind Kate Winslet's role in The Reader?"
They defame the character of Irma Grese by alleging the following:
- She patrolled with attack dogs (this claim is the least insane of the bunch)
- She donned a revolver in holster
- She carried either a rubber truncheon or lightweight whip made of cellophane for the easier inflicting of pain
- She kept attack dogs at her heels and scared off inmates into the prohibited areas by the barbed wire to be shot by the guards.
- She was in charge of one "gas chamber"
- She was a "queen-bee"-type (whatever that means in the context of things)
- She was the lover of an kommandant (who?) and the lover of Josef Mengele; the Chief Medical Officer of the main infirmary camp at Birkenau
Now, these points I've listed are only a selection of the deplorable content in the article linked to earlier in my post. What I would like to know, is, what's the available evidence for any of these claims? My guess is that this is nothing short of defamation of character, filthy lies by revengeful inmates (and probably really jealous of her because in contrast to Greses' accusers she looked like the finest movie star you'd ever find - whilst the photographs I've seen of her accusers looked like foul trash).
Regards,
-haldan