WW2 Belsen Trial 1945 Courtroom scene The camp Kommandant Josef Kramer and members of the SS stationed at Belsen were put on trial by the allies for two charges of war crimes details of which can be found in the paper file Irma Grese was an SS officer in the camp and she was placed on trial separately because she was alleged to have been particularly brutal towards the prisoners She always carried a pistol and a whip with her and one inmate told how two girls who had just been selected to be gassed tried to get away Grese caught them and then shot them in cold blood She would beat prisoners

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WW2 Belsen Trial 1945 Courtroom scene The camp Kommandant Josef Kramer and members of the SS stationed at Belsen were put on trial by the allies for two charges of war crimes details of which can be found in the paper file Irma Grese was an SS officer in the camp and she was placed on trial separately because she was alleged to have been particularly brutal towards the prisoners She always carried a pistol and a whip with her and one inmate told how two girls who had just been selected to be gassed tried to get away Grese caught them and then shot them in cold blood She would beat prisoners with her whip just because she felt like it Grese and Kramer were the two main defendents in the case