Karl Otto Koch

...of the first monument that is kept 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...

In this article: Ilse Koch, United States, Germany, Essen, and Typhus

...Stoler's character was based on Ilse Koch, notoriously known as the "the Bitch of Buchenwald ". The wife of the camp's commandant Karl Otto Koch, she took sadistic pleasure in the torture of inmates, and was suspected of having lampshades made...

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Karl Otto Koch (August 2, 1897 - April 5, 1945), a Standartenfuhrer in the German Schutzstaffel (SS), was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald (from 1937 to 1941), and later at Lublin (Majdanek camp). Before he...

In this article: Ilse Koch, Konrad Morgen, Syphilis, and Lublin

...a Christian, let alone one's grandparents' religious affiliation being an obstacle to being a Christian. When on September 5 Karl Koch, then praeses of the Westphalian provincial synod, tried to bring forward the arguments of the...

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...which he recognized because Kramer had successfully treated him in the past. The Prince investigated the case and found out that Karl Otto Koch, the Camp Commandant, had ordered both Kramer and Karl Peixof, a hospital attendant, killed as...

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...'arbitrary killings' of prisoners. . . . Only against the third category of murders did he set the SS machine in motion." Karl Otto Koch - Commandant of Buchenwald and Majdanek - executed for the murder of two hospital orderlies who had...

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...by Major Knosel February 1943 Tunis Field Battalion T3: Hauptmann Michael Burgermeister Tunis Field Battalion T4: Hauptmann Karl Koch Tunis Field Battalion T5: Hauptmann Karl Mickley Prominent Members of Tunis Field Battalions

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...by April 1944, Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler personally ordered him to restrain his cases. Among the people he investigated was Karl Otto Koch, the commandant of Buchenwald and Majdanek, and husband of Ilse Koch - as well as Buchenwald's...

In this article: Heinrich Himmler, Waldemar Hoven, Ilse Koch, Germany, Dachau concentration camp, and Munich

...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 commandant of...

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...early devotee of Hitler, joining the Nazi party in 1932. She was singled out by Himmler as a good "Aryan" wife for his close friend Karl Koch, whom she married in 1936. At Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Koch's sadism as commandant marked...

In this article: Ilse Koch, Kate Winslet, Karl Koch, Bernhard Schlink, Suicide, and The Reader