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But while Hitler was known for assembling a notoriously sadistic band of male lieutenants, history tells us that women in the Third Reich played a key role in the sickening war crimes .Just yesterday, a 99-year-old Nazi known as the 'Secretary of Evil' failed in her bid to overturn a conviction for being an accessory to over 10,000 murders at the infamous Stutthof concentration camp. Irmgard Furchner joins a long line of women infamous for the cruelty they inflicted upon their victims. From a nymphomaniac 'hyena' who took sexual pleasure from watching women undergo surgery with no anaesthetic, to the 'Red Witch' who carefully selected prisoners to kill in order to turn their skin into ornaments, MailOnline takes a look at the cruellest women to thrive in the Third Reich.

The story of Ravensbruck, the only Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women, has long remained on the margins of Nazi history. 56 miles north of Berlin and surrounded by a pine forest and the shimmering blue water of a lake, Ravensbruck was concealed by 15 foot tall walls topped with barbed wire.  For six years, the camp's inmates were subjected to some of the most sadistic human experiments one could imagine, and treated as human guinea pigs for some of history's most depraved war crimes.

As the true scale of the Nazi's crimes against humanity became clear, attention soon turned to the capture of war criminals. Some were successfully apprehended and tried, while many escaped justice - either by suicide or by fleeing the continent. Several of these evil men left families behind in their wake, and had young children who would later learn of the crimes of their ancestors. Today, their surviving children are well into their 80s. They have children of their own, and some had passed away themselves. Here, MailOnline looks at what the descendants of Nazi Germany 's most infamous officials have said of their dark family history.

Voters in the 27 EU states have delivered a stinging rebuke to the bloc's centrist and Left-wing politicians.  Elections to the 720-member European Parliament have seen hard-Right parties triumph, with voters expressing frustration with mass migration. So where have Right-wing parties fared well? Victory for the Right-wing, populist Freedom Party in Austria - which won 25.7 per cent of the vote - sums up the nightmare facing the EU elite. While the party doesn't want Austria to leave the bloc, it wants the EU's budget slashed by half and powers returned to member states. It also opposes EU intervention in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.

In yesterday's Daily Mail, ROBERT HARDMAN painted a poignant and breathtaking picture of D-Day with stories from some of the gallant few still alive. Today, he follows his heroes as they push into Nazi-held Normandy, witnessing both horror and humour on the way.

As the monster who was responsible for creating the Gestapo and building the first Nazi concentration camps, Hermann Goering was one of Hitler's most ruthless henchmen. Yet nothing could have prepared a team of amateur archaeologists for what they were about to find in the basement of his former home in the Wolf's Lair - the Nazis' headquarters in what is now north-eastern Poland. Set in dense forest, with barbed wire, guard towers and minefields all around, the once-impregnable complex of some 200 houses, bunkers and other buildings was where Hitler and senior Nazis planned the barbarities of the Holocaust and military campaigns such as Operation Barbarossa, their invasion of the Soviet Union.

Since a Russian officer cut it off and force fed it to him when he was captured, the terrorist suspect Saidakrami Rachabalizoda was compelled to eat his own ear. The Nazi-linked officer is now flogging the knife he used to torture the terror suspect

After helping carry out the deadliest ISIS attack against Russia in years, terrorist Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, one of four men suspected of killing nearly 140 people at a Moscow concert on Friday, was arrested and tortured by Russian authorities attempting to escape Russia. However, images shared on Nazi-linked Telegram channels have revealed that the military officer who ostensibly cut his ear off and threatened to compel him to eat it was wearing a Black Sun patch. The image of the patch was edited, and it is partially obscured by the picture of a smiling young man

The Great Betrayal came after the Great Escape. On March 25, 1944, German guards at the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp made the most audacious escape from the war at 5 a.m. 76 RAF officers were able to flee along a tunnel more than 100 yards long after almost a year of digging with makeshift equipment, avoiding detection by microphones around the perimeter fence, as well as the 'ferts' or Nazi military intelligence in the camp.

On February 3, 1945, Heinrich Himmler's (pictured right) enormous, bear-like masseur, Felix Kersten (left), sent his secretary Frau Wacker to Himmler's headquarters north of Berlin with an urgent message: please could the SS chief Himmler be good enough to sign a stay of execution for the dissident Major Theodor Steltzer, who was due to be executed in prison the following morning?

The Mona Lisa is consistently named as the world's most popular tourist attraction. It's not the work in itself that is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Renaissance art. The issue is both its size and location. The picture shows only 30in by 21in, but the Louvre sees nearly nine million people each year. As a result, the room is extremely crowded. Hundreds of people mill around snapping selfies, shooting videos, and quickly moving position, encouraging others to do the same. It's a life-changing experience. The Little Mermaid statues in Copenhagen and the Manneken-Pis in Brussels offer a similar experience. The Hollywood Walk of Fame, a dodgy part of Los Angeles that boasts strip clubs and tattoo parlours, is another contender. Its less than informative tour guides and a series of names of famous people on the pavement.

After being found guilty of war crimes in Nuremburg, Albert Speer (right, with Hitler in 1937), the chief architect of Nazi Germany and later became armaments minister, served 20 years in prison. However, he went on to reinvent himself in a best-selling memoir, insisting he was unaware of the Holocaust's proposal. However, a recent Sky History documentary reveals how those allegations were untrue, including the establishment of gas chambers where Jews were murdered, was inaccurate. Speer's evident contrition and regret helped him to London in 1973 (right, in Shepherd's Bush) for an interview with the BBC during a storm that culminated in his detention at Heathrow Airport for eight hours. And when he died in September 1981 while making a documentary for the BBC, he was in London, the city that was struck by bombs made under his direction.

In an email sent to students and families Monday, the Indianola Community School District included a speech by the high-ranking Nazi leader and shared the word'my honour is my loyalty.' Later, the school apologised, saying that 'a staff member did not know that the quote was from a highly inappropriate website.' The term was first used as a rallying cry in Nazi Germany by the Schutzstaffel (SS), the Nazi Party's paramilitary group, in order to express their allegiance to Adolf Hitler. Following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, the use of a Nazi leader's address occurred on campuses around the country.

According to a court heard, an executive from one of the world's largest accounting companies compared a former colleague to Heinrich Himmler (inset bottom) after she was suspended from her high-flying job. Helen Vulin (left and right) is accused of saying she wanted Vladimir Putin to 'wipe out Hampstead Heath,' where a number of Grant Thornton workers, who she worked for before losing her job, live. In a series of emails, the 34-year-old allegedly berated employees in a year-and-a-half campaign, and is said to have wished one to die by 'Dave', a 'painful death.'

Every year, the historic Norfolk seaside town of Sheringham takes back time to life in the 1940s. It's an event that celebrates the spirit of wartime Britain; not about imagining the horrors that might have populated Norfolk's shores if so many had not kept Hitler's troops at bay. All of which is why the arrival of one particular group of visitors last weekend brought a cloud to an otherwise joyful occasion. A group of men dressed in German military uniform (right), some bearing the ominous SS emblem of Adolf Hitler's legendary elite force, stepped into the town last Saturday afternoon before finding themselves in the middle of an uproar among visitors who discovered their presence, complete with swastikas, was deeply offensive. Jim Keeling (left), a father of four with a long interest in military history, especially the 5th SS Wiking - an active regiment under SS chief Heinrich Himmler's overarching auspices, was largely made up of foreign volunteers, not Germans. In a shocking photograph showing Keeling adopting the 'Heil Hitler' salute near Hitler's summer retreat, the Eagle's Nest) in Bavaria, his fascination with Hitler (inset) is more vividly shown.

Google Doodle is renowned for celebrating some of the world's most popular celebrities, and today they are recognizing none other than Dr. Mohammed Helmy. Dr Helmy was one of the 25,000 people honoured by the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Yad Vashem, among a list of people deemed the 'righteous among Nations'. He has also been referred to as the 'Schindler of the surgery room,' and with books dedicated to his life, it makes sense that Google would pay tribute to him on his 122nd birthday. Read on to learn more about Dr. Mohammed Helmy's heroic sacrifices during WWII.

Brown, a naval test pilot of remarkable talent and dedication, flew more hours (well over 6,000) than any other pilot in 487 different planes and helicopters, a record that will never be beaten. His nerves of steel and limitless courage in World War II, as well as his service as a senior test pilot, will never be forgotten. It was an incredibly varied and full life. He had a seemingly insatisible appetite for risk, and as an indefatigable senior aviator with the Fleet Air Arm, he helped to produce planes and aircraft carriers that were vital to winning the war. He was a brilliant pilot and a shrew of highly uneven landings on the narrow deck of aircraft carriers (he now holds the world record for the most landings), and he was, if you like, Britain's very own Top Gun.

The ill-fated Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which captured Polish engineer Rudolf Damec, who disguised a Jewish woman in his apartment as the Nazis wreaked havoc on the city, has been released today. Despite being Europe's largest Jewish resistance against Nazi German occupation during the Second World War, the revolt, spearheaded by the 24-year-old head of an underground resistance group, was doomed from the start. The resistance, which resulted in the deaths of 13,000 Jews, was an attempt to stop the Nazis from transferring those inside the ghetto to the death camps of Treblinka and Majdanek. Above: German soldiers see the aftermath of the uprising (left); women and children are led away as a result of Hitler's forces' assassination of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (bottom right); defeated resistance fighters surrender (inset);

Tom Landon (pictured left), 54, was arrested by police after using pepper spray to intimidate two officers who had come to question him about his family's living conditions (right). Neighbours raised the alarm after discovering 'crying' in the cellar of Mr Landon's detached house, where he, his wife, 40, and their three sons, and three daughters, all under the age of seven. Three boys and three girls aged between seven months and seven years were discovered in the basement of the house, which had been newly purchased by Landon. He told MailOnline that he was the grandson of notorious Nazi war criminal Ernst Kaltenbrunner (pictured top-inset), who was commander of the feared SS in Austria and later chief of police in wartime Germany. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and executed by hanging in September 1946, aged 43, while simultaneously denying that he was attempting to end the Holocaust and that he was wrongly found.

The infamous locations of ill-gotten loot have always made news, from a palace in Poland used by Hitler's SS as a brothel to a 'booby-trapped' train hidden in a tunnel. The unveiling of a 'treasure map' pointing to the possible location of a loot buried by German forces near a village in the Netherlands set pulses thumping once more this month. We've created an interactive map that displays the exact location of each case and the severity of the occurrence. Pictured: A German armoured train (top right) in Walbrzych, southwest Poland, displaying gold and then hidden in a tunnel; the palace (bottom right) in Minkowskie, where a diary allegedly written by an SS officer revealed that £200 million worth of gold was missing.

Hayk Gasparyan, a convicted firearms criminal (circled right and inset with Putin), was released from his maximum security prison to serve in pro-Kremlin forces illegally invading neighboring villages in a style reminiscent of the 1978 WWII film Inglorious Bas***ds. The Armenian MMA fighter, 31, had only served a few months of a seven-year sentence in a prison in Ryazan, south-east of Moscow, for an arms robbery, but he is now a free man after being pardoned by Putin for completing six months of service at the front. Gasparyan was just one of a group of criminals (main) honoured by the Russian president at a dinner in Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia located just 50 miles from the Ukrainian border.

Executions in summary. Torture. Rape is a form of rape. Violent convicts are recruited. These are the characteristics of the legendary Wagner Group, a Russian private military company (PMC) led by Yevgeny Prigozhin (right), a close ally of Putin, whose fingerprints are all tracing the invasion of Ukraine. Prigozhin says his contractors have been sent across the border to help realize the Russian president's target - the so-called 'denazification' of Ukraine. But ironically, the methods employed by PMC Wagner (insignia inset bottom) bare a stark resemblance to those of the Dirlewanger brigade (insignia inset top) - a notorious division of the Nazis' SS paramilitary organisation who raped, murdered and pillaged their way through Europe as Hitler executed his dark designs under the command of its eponymous leader Oskar Dirlewanger (left)

The Silesian Bridge Foundation, a charity that has been digging up the grounds of an 18th-century palace (bottom right inset) in Minkowskie, Poland, where they suspect £200 million of Nazi gold is buried. The dig at an old orangery in the palace grounds was triggered after the foundation reported that the location was discovered in a war diary written by an SS officer at the end of the Second World War. However, historians (main) who were invited to check' the diary (bottom left inset) insist that their report is not entirely positive. The historians from the Discoverer Magazine Exploration Group (GEMO) reported on Facebook, 'Our most surprising find was that the village of Minkowskie is not listed in the 'War Diary.' This could be difficult for the Foundation because it is the only place where their dig digs are currently being carried out.'

EXCLUSIVE: A team from the Silesian Bridge Foundation, who are looking for hidden gold in the grounds of an 18th century palace in Poland, says that the fragment of an ageing letter (left), which was exclusively seen by MailOnline, could reveal the truth behind one of the Second World War's most valuable pieces of looted art. The letter, written by an SS officer, refers to the long-lost 16th century painting 'Portrait of a Young Man' (right), which was confiscated by Gestapo officers after Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland. The Foundation said it had been sent by senior Nazis whose descendants now want to make atonement for Nazi Germany's war crimes. The letter was written by the same SS officer who penned a diary describing 11 locations where the Nazis are thought to have hidden £200 million of Nazi gold. The SS officer focuses on Raffaello's 16th century painting, which ended up in the custody of Hitler's henchman Hans Frank (bottom left inset), who was in charge of the general government in occupied Poland. Now, the five-page letter written in gothic-style German by a Nazi officer named 'Michaelis' could help explain its disappearance.