La Yegua

Hermine Braunsteiner was an ordinary young woman—until the Second World War broke out. She then took a job as a guard at a concentration camp. Thousands of women helped guard the prisoners, yet only she earned the nickname by which she is still remembered today: "The Mare." It was given to her because of her habit of kicking prisoners to death. After the war, she married an American veteran, and the couple moved to New York. She returned to being an ordinary woman—a wife and homemaker. Until a *New York Times* journalist knocked on her door...