Posted on 09/13/2026 4:38:00 AM PDT by DFG
She was the perfect American neighbor — sweet, hardworking and the ideal homemaker. Everybody liked her.
She was also a Nazi.
The new movie “The Housewife,” which had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the strange story of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who hid out undetected for years in New York, before finally being caught.
Director Ben Shirinian’s film, starring a Stepford-style Naomi Watts as Ryan, is just OK. The drama is often overplayed. Watts, with a store-bought sauerkraut accent, has been stuck in schmactor mode lately. And the screenplay fidgets with the facts of the real story in order to force a plot twist that doesn’t quite land.
But the history of this major event is fascinating — and frightening.
When New York Times reporter Joseph Lelyveld, operating on a tip from Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, arrived at Ryan’s Maspeth, Queens, door in 1964, the war criminal among us said, “My God. I knew this would happen. You’ve come.”
The vicious woman hailed from Vienna, Austria, where she worked as a servant and eventually in a brewery. She later moved to Berlin in the 1930s and embraced rising Naziism.
Enthusiastic and needing money, Ryan applied for a job at the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp in Germany in 1939 and then was transferred to Majdanek in Poland in 1942.
She rose the ranks to assistant warden, and earned a bone-chilling nickname: “the stomping mare,” because she’d kill women with her steel-spiked boots. Hot-tempered Ryan would also whip prisoners to death and drag children by the hair. Grotesquely, she was awarded the War Merit Cross for her brutality.
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Nice lady. She could have been the DNC chair of today.
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She was also a Nazi.
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But the history of this major event is fascinating — and frightening.
This alien lived for years in Queens undetected. Is this referring to The Band, men in black (Hasidic diamond merchants as the Queen of Soul identified these men who were on a mission from God), or Men In Black?
They knew that the aliens had made contact on March 2, 1961 which was.. Purim.
It's right here in the historical documents.
Did you ever see the movie 'Casablanca'? Same thing, 'cept no Nazis.
Shoot, we are now to the point that even Ray Charles could farcee what's coming.
Seems the women could be as brutal as the men. The following woman was a brutal brutal woman.
““The Bitch of Buchenwald”: The Story Of Ilse Koch, One Of The Holocaust’s Biggest Monsters”
“Her other hobby, which would later become a major point of contention during the Nuremberg Trials, was her collection of lampshades, book covers, and gloves, said to have been made from human skin. “
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ilse-koch
Many American women today, have no issue with a mother brutally murdering her three young children, has anything really changed?
Many American women today, have no issue with a mother brutally murdering her three young children, has anything really changed?
Just yesterday my daughter and I were browsing around an antique store in Pinewood, SC. The owner had several old bureaus and armoires he had only recently acquired. He told me he hadn’t taken the time to look through the drawers of them but I was welcome to look around. The second drawer I opened had letters written between a soldier serving in Germany and his family. I opened the drawer below it and there were 8 brass Nazi belt buckles beside ribbons, an Army radio cell battery, and WW2 era newspapers.
I’m in Maspeth all the time. It doesn’t have what you might call a lot of attractions. She must have thought it a good place to fade into.
If only women were in charge. There’d be no more wars. /s
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