Ilse Koch
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Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she
Buchenwald 16 April 1945. Collection of prisoners' internal organs and two human heads (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
Karl-Otto Koch
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Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer who was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel of Nazi Germany, and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhau
Ilse Koch
…Margarete Ilse Koch (née Köhler; 22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the…
Koch, c. 1940