When people think of the Nazis the image they most likely conjure up is one of a male.
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But the Third Reich had its share of complicit women, some who would go on to commit atrocities in concentration camps.
One of the most infamous was Irma Grese, a guard better known as 'Hyena of Auschwitz' or 'The Beautiful Beast'.
The blonde ringleted German was only 22 when she was hanged for her war crimes after being found guilty for murdering prisoner - the youngest woman to die under British law last century.
Grese's brutality was said to be notable even among her male Nazi colleagues, although it is difficult to confirm any accusations against her. Grese's brutality was said to be notable even among her male Nazi colleagues, although it is difficult to confirm any accusations against her.
Historian Wendy Lower notes that much of what has been written about female Nazis over the years is obscured by sexism and stereotypes.
However, witnesses claimed that Grese would beat and kick women with her hobnail boots almost to the point of death.
She would also deliberately choose the most beautiful women first when it came to selecting victims for the gas chambers, according to Auschwitz survivor Olga Lengyel. Grese was born in a small German village of Wrechen in 1923 as one of five children.
Her mother killed herself when Grese was just 13 after discovering her father was having an affair and it was said by one of her sisters that she was bullied in school, eventually dropping out of education.
By the age of 19 she was taken in by the warped vision of Hitler and volunteered as a guard at Ravensbruck concentration camp, one exclusively for female prisoners.