Ilse Koch

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ilse Koch, née Köhler (22 September 1906, Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony 1 September 1967), was the wife of Karl Otto Koch, commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941, and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943. She was one of the first prominent Nazis to be tried by the US military.After the trial was remitted under worldwide media attention, survivor accounts of her actions resulted in other authors describing her abuse of prisoners as sadistic, a shadow image as "concentration camp murderess" transfixed itself to post-war German society.... Mehr