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
Koch, c. 1940
Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont was the heir apparent to the throne of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a general in the Schutzstaffel. From 1946 until his death, he was th
Karl-Otto Koch
…Main Office and as a liaison between the SS and the German Post Office. Koch's actions at Buchenwald first caught the attention of SS-Obergruppenführer Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, in 1941. While perusing the death list of Buchenwald, Hereditary Prince Josias had seen the name of Walter Krämer, a head hospital orderly at Buchenwald…
Josias c. 1936–42
Waldeck-Pyrmont during the Buchenwald Trial