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Hermine Braunsteiner

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The Resume

    (July 16, 1919-April 19, 1999)
    Aufseherin (Supervisor) at Ravensbruck and Majdanek concentration camps

Why she might be annoying:

    She wasn't the prettiest fraulein.
    She failed as a nurse.
    She whipped prisoners to death.
    She dragged children by the hair to gas chambers.
    Prisoners nicknamed her the 'Stomping Mare' because she stomped women to death with her steel-toed jackboots.
    She served only one year in an Austrian prison on charges of infanticide, manslaughter and assassination.
    In 1959, she married American businessman Russell Ryan, gaining American citizenship in 1963.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Simon Wiesenthal discovered her real identity in the late 1960s.
    When a reporter arrived at her Queens home to ask about the allegations, she said, 'My God, I knew this would happen. You've come.'
    After several years, she was stripped of her American citizenship and extradited back to Germany in 1973.
    In 1980, she was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes.
    She was released from prison in 1996 due to poor health.

Credit: bruce


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 105 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 22 Votes: 27.27% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 28 Votes: 53.57% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 44 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 32 Votes: 53.12% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 356 Votes: 81.46% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 109 Votes: 59.63% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 133 Votes: 66.17% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 126 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 176 Votes: 77.84% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 163 Votes: 74.23% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 526 Votes: 75.67% Annoying