Ilse Koch

...at skin temperature year round. Buchenwald's first commandant was Karl Otto Koch, who ran the camp from 1937 to 1941. His second wife, Ilse Koch, became notorious as Die Hexe von Buchenwald ("the witch of Buchenwald") for her cruelty and...

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...war, but no one could testify that they had actually seen such a thing during Ilse's trial. According to The Buchenwald Report, Col. Koch was arrested in August 1943 by the Gestapo for forgery, embezzlement, mismanagement, and...

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...was Oberaufseherin in Bromberg-Ost (Bydgoszcz East) from June 1944 until March 1945, while Ilse Koch was appointed head female guard at Buchenwald. Koch was convicted of war crimes; she committed suicide in Aichach women's prison on...

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...the gas chambers. After a 53-day trial, during which many of her former inmates testified against her, she was hanged. Another guard, Ilsa Koch, was dubbed the Bitch of Buchenwald for her sadistic behaviour towards prisoners - including...

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...at a small, far-flung satellite work camp and even there she was quiet and withdrawn, a drone. Most significantly, Koch's jobs before she was caught up in Nazi activities were as a secretary and a librarian. Hanna, by contrast, can neither...

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...revealed. The woman Kate Winslet plays in the film was one of Germany's most notorious war criminals, concentration camp guard Ilse Koch, the Guardian reported. Bernhard Schlink, whose controversial book was adapted for the film, had...

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...portrays in the Oscar-tipped movie has been unmasked as one of Germany's most notorious war criminals. Concentration camp guard Ilse Koch, known as the 'Bitch of Buchenwald', was sentenced to life imprisonment before she committed suicide,...

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...said that "no other known female camp guard comes close to matching up with Schmitz". Like Schmitz, Koch came from a poor background. She married Karl Koch, a close friend of Adolf Hitler, in 1936, and accompanied him when he was made...

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In 1943 the SS was sufficiently alarmed by the allegations of unauthorised extortion to have the Kochs tried by an SS judge. Although Ilse Koch was acquitted, her husband was not, and in April 1945 - days before the camp was liberated -...

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...is a sign that they do not consider her to be politically dead. Some all but describe her as a combination of Lady Macbeth, Ilsa Koch and Cruella De Vil the kind of woman who "pimped out" her daughter to help her campaign, to use a phrase...

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