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Monday, September 1, 2014

THE RED WITCH OF BUCHENWALD: ILSE KOCH (SEPTEMBER 22, 1906 TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1967)



            On this date, September 1, 1967, Ilse Koch, a female Nazi War Criminal, committed suicide by hanging herself. I will post information about her from Wikipedia and other links.

Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch who was commandant of the concentration camp at Buchenwald

Born
22 September 1906
Dresden, Saxony, German Empire
Died
1 September 1967 (aged 60)
Aichach, West Germany
Nationality
German
Known for
  • Atrocities committed at Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps
  • Wife of camp commandant
  • chief overseer

Ilse Koch (German: [kɔχ]; née Margarete Ilse Köhler; 22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald (1937–1941) and Majdanek (1941–1943). She was one of the first prominent Nazis to be tried by the U.S. military.

After the trial received worldwide media attention, survivor accounts of her actions resulted in other authors describing her abuse of prisoners as sadistic, and the image of her as "the concentration camp murderess" was current in post-war German society. She was accused of taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. She was known as "The Witch of Buchenwald" (Die Hexe von Buchenwald) by the inmates because of her alleged cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners. She is also called in English "The Beast of Buchenwald", "Queen of Buchenwald", "Red Witch of Buchenwald", "Butcher Widow" and, more commonly, "The Bitch of Buchenwald".

Early life

War crimes

First trial

Reduction of sentence

Second trial

Family

Death

In popular culture

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