Hermine Braunsteiner

Hermine Braunsteiner

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 in murders of over 1,000 people during the Holocaust, and sentenced to life imprisonment by the District Court of Düsseldorf on April 30, 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermine Braunsteiner has received more than 642,515 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hermine Braunsteiner is the 59th most popular extremist (up from 76th in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from Austria (up from 330th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Extremist.