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TIL that Hildegard "Bloody Brigitte" Lächert, the female Nazi death camp guard who enjoyed torturing prisoners until she felt ecstatic, served less than 10 years for her crimes, and then went to work for the CIA and West Germany's BND spy agencies.

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