Ilse Koch
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Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at war's end.
Buchenwald 16 April 1945. Collection of prisoners' internal organs including two human heads remains (upper left) and also examples of tattooed skins (foreground)
Buchenwald 16 April 1945. Collection of prisoners' internal organs. Photo taken by Jules Rouard, military volunteer incorporated to the 1st American Army, 16ème Bataillon de Fusiliers.
Ilse Koch at the U.S. Military Tribunal in Dachau, 1947
Buchenwald concentration camp
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Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees.
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Image: Buchenwald Prisoners Roll Call 10105
Entrance gate of the Buchenwald concentration camp, inscribed Jedem das Seine ("To each his own")
Dutch Jews stand during a roll call after their prisoner transport from Buchenwald in May 1941 in camp Mauthausen on 26 June 1941.