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Hermine Braunsteiner

1919 - 1999

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Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan (July 16, 1919 – April 19, 1999) was a Nazi Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States to face trial in West Germany. Braunsteiner was known to prisoners of Majdanek concentration camp as the "Stomping Mare" and was said to have beaten prisoners to death, thrown children by their hair onto trucks that took them to be murdered in gas chambers, hanged young prisoners and stomped an old prisoner to death with her jackboots. Braunsteiner was convicted for her complicity and collaborating in murders of over 1,000 people during the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermine Braunsteiner has received more than 697,090 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hermine Braunsteiner is the 73rd most popular extremist (down from 59th in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from Austria (down from 254th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Hermine Braunsteiner ranks 73 out of 283. Before her are Kang Kek Iew, Matteo Messina Denaro, Johnny Torrio, Gary Ridgway, Willi Herold, and Charles Sobhraj. After her are Jordan Belfort, Frank Sheeran, Shamil Basayev, Ma Barker, Emperor Norton, and Wadie Haddad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Hermine Braunsteiner ranks 56. Before her are Martin Balsam, William Lipscomb, Joseph Murray, Daniel Bell, Mohamed Boudiaf, and Ashraf Pahlavi. After her are Ryszard Kaczorowski, Art Blakey, Valentino Mazzola, René Barrientos, Joe Weider, and Ian Smith. Among people deceased in 1999, Hermine Braunsteiner ranks 44. Before her are Bernard Buffet, Amintore Fanfani, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Sarah Knauss, Joe D'Amato, and Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. After her are Henri, Count of Paris, George C. Scott, Fabrizio De André, Edward Dmytryk, André Martinet, and Benjamin Bloom.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hermine Braunsteiner ranks 307 out of 1,424. Before her are Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705), Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria (1878), Franz Böhme (1885), István Széchenyi (1791), Senta Berger (1941), and Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria (1801). After her are Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Erik Jan Hanussen (1889), Giovanni Battista Caproni (1886), Karl Silberbauer (1911), Maria Theresa of Austria (1801), and Fritjof Capra (1939).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Austria

Among extremists born in Austria, Hermine Braunsteiner ranks 2. Before her are Amon Göth (1908). After her are Jack Unterweger (1951), Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (1897), and Jan-Carl Raspe (1944).

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