During the war period, an estimated 5,000 females served as guards in concentration camps. These Nazi wardresses would often times be more brutal than their male counterparts. The graphic violence that occurred under the watch of these women would go on to shock and terrify the general public, upon hearing of the atrocities.

The mere thought of women being so violent would also inspire several horror film subgenres, such as the women-in-prison subgenre and the Naziploitation subgenre, with both often blending together and being equally terrifying. The earliest film featuring some of these elements would be the 1944 British war film Two Thousand Women. However, it wouldn't be until the 1975 film Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS that the Naziploitation/women-in-prison subgenre would catapult into the mainstream. Following this film would be a wave of others just like it, but when the audience realized that the movie was loosely based on a real person, it gave the film an entirely different feel.

This movie that essentially spawned the cult subgenre that is now known as Naziploitation, or Nazi Exploitation, was based on Ilse Koch. Koch was an overseer at several concentration camps, which were run by her husband, Karl-Otto Koch. Ilse would likely go down as one of if not the most brutal of all the female Nazis. She was rumored to have made human skin lampshades with her victims, which would likely go on to inspire the likes of Ed Gein. But she is just one of many, so let's go back in time and examine some of the cruelest of these female Nazis….