Word: irma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generally true, as Joseph Kramer, Irma Grese and their lesser co-defendants said, that they had obeyed orders ("Anyone in the SS is as guilty as anyone else"). A corollary truth, hard for the occupiers to grasp, was that the basic crime-Naziism-was not an individual but a national crime. Since this was so, the German people could never really be convinced that the national crimes of Naziism were crimes...
Then she stopped before a fierce-eyed, coldly pretty blonde. "This woman I recognize." (It was Irma Grese, Kramer's assistant.) The two women stared at each other a moment, then Fraulein Grese lowered her defiant eyes...
...there was 21-year-old Irma Grese (who had worked in concentration camps since she was 17, and liked it). In the dock, she sat rigidly between Herta Ehlert and Use Lothe (see cut). When the prosecution showed a motion picture of a German guard slowly pushing a huge pile of rotting corpses into a pit with a bulldozer, Irma Grese calmly fixed her hair and blew her nose...
...Listen, Kid!" Irma has been rattling around in Fanny Brice's brain ever since she was Fanny Borach of Forsyth Street, daughter of a saloonkeeper. She had risen to singing dialect songs in the Columbia Burlesque when Florenz Ziegfeld, who knew a good thing, hired her for his Follies. Once, asked about her career, she roared...
...that Comedian Frank Morgan has left her show for his own (TIME, Jan. 17), Fanny has the whole half-hour to herself. Irma should help. But Baby Snooks is still there-just in case...