World WarTwo: Nazi War Crimes Belsen Trial 1945

SS (Schutzstaffel) Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer (1906 - 1945), Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camps and dubbed the 'Beast of Belsen', stands beside Irma Grese (1923 - 1945) an SS Aufseherin, or concentration camp guard, at the Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps and warden of the women's section of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, at the beginning of the Nazi War Crimes Belsen Trial on 17th September 1945 at Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Kramer and Grese were found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death by a British military court and executed by hanging at Hamelin prison by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint on 13th December 1945. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).