Expert Says Woman, 85, Is Concentration Camp Killer

A GRAN has been exposed as a Nazi death camp thug.

Erna Wallisch, 85, is No7 on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's list of war criminals who are still at large.

They allege that she beat women and children to death in two World War II concentration camps and helped pick victims for the gas chamber.

British historian Guy Walters tracked her down to a flat in Vienna, Austria, for his book Hunting Evil.

Her name is printed on her doorbell but she has never been prosecuted for the "inhumanity" of which she has been accused.

A neighbour said: "It's all in the past and should be forgiven.

"People should learn to forgive."

But four witnesses claim the former postal clerk is a murderer.

Born Erna Pfannenstiel in eastern Germany, she joined the Nazis as a teenager. She served as a guard at Ravensbruck women's camp near Berlin until October 1942.

She then moved to the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland.

Former prisoner Jadwiga Landowska said Wallisch beat a young boy to death even while pregnant.

He said: "The pregnant Nazi monster woman who went crazy and attacked us did not appear among those tried in Duesseldorf after the war.

"The pregnant one hit a young boy lying on the floor with something harder than a whip.

"Blood was pouring from his head and he gave no sign of life or reaction.

"The sweating, breathless face of that monster was something I will never forget."

It is known there were plans to move Wallisch to Auschwitz but she left Majdanek in January 1944 and married camp guard George Wallisch in March 1944.

Former inmates allege she used "violence and illegal threats for reasons of race and nationality, against women and children weakened physically and psychologically... she treated them in an inhumane way".

But Austria's justice ministry have informed the head of the Wiesenthal Centre, Dr Efraim Zuroff, that Wallisch's crimes come under the statute of limitations and she would therefore not be prosecuted.

As a result, Zuroff has appealed to the Polish authorities to take action against her.

He said Wallisch had admitted she committed crimes in Poland and against Polish citizens.

There is no statute of limitations for such crimes in Poland.

'I'll never forget the face of that monster'

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