The Novel "Beautiful Beast" by Daniel Patrick Brown

The author then provides an cipher of training of the Aufseherin, the genesis of an SS legacy, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, make outn as the "horror live" (Brown, 1996, p. 57). In a section entitled "Judgment and instruction execution" Brown (1996) depicts the arrest, sentencing, and execution of Grese, who remained definite to the last. Her story and arrogance when confronted by survivors demonstrates that for numerous Germans who participated in the atrocities of Hitler's "Final Solution," most continued to opine they had d iodine nothing wrong but fail to cling to their state from undesirables. As Grese yelled back at one French survivor who screamed at her, wondering how she could commit such atrocities, "It was our duty to exterminate anti-social elements, so that Germ whatever's future would be sensible" (Brown, 1996, p. 68).

We also learn that Grese's beauty in addition to her many acts of risky cruelty won her the label of "the beautiful wildcat" in the press and among foreigners (Brown, 1996, p. 68). She became a symbol that women could be as equally capable and guilty of men in committing barbaric atrocities against innocent and helpless human beings. Despite her cold and dogmatic demeanor throughout most of her trial and despite

the fact that she was the queen of mean with pry to inflicting cruelty on concentration camp prisoners, Brown (1996) claims that many viewed Grese as an innocent victim of Hitler's madness, a mere babe who believed it was her duty to do as she did with relish. Only when her older babe testified on her behalf, did the courtroom or the world see any semblance of this alleged child inside the barely 22 year old former SS-Aufseherin. When her sister testified, Grese finally stone-broke down and cried, showing some signs of human vulnerability and emotion. As Brown (1996) writes, "To the relief of some onlookers, Irma Grese was not quite as hard as she had originally seemed; indeed, an emotionally vulnerable, even delicate personality had been revealed to the world" (p. 75).

Brown does an excellent job of nerve-racking to show the human side of Grese, as well as the "beast." He uses a number of primary and secondary sources to bind his account of the "beautiful beast," as well as records and interviews with survivors of the final solution and Grese's trial. The author admits his version of Grese's life is not a "definitive" one, but he does a good job of nerve-wracking to show how a beautiful young woman became a beast of cruelty during Nazi Germany and the final solution (Brown, 1996, p. xi).

In considering whether or not I like this book, I have infer to the conclusion that I enjoyed it very much. As painful and poignant as the book is at times, especially with respect to the victims of the Holocaust to which it is dedicated, I was fascinated by Brown's (1996) account of Grese. It is almost insufferable to me that this barely in her twenties, beautiful woman could have attached such atrocities with a thirst for brutality that seemed unquenchable and to know no limits. I could not help but live on as fascinated by Grese as the author evidently became. The more I read about her savage cruelties to those to a lower place her control, the more I wondered how any young woman could be
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