Ilse Koch: The Witch Of Buchenwald

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Ilse Koch was born was in Dresden, Germany on September 22, 1906. In 1932, she became part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Koch met her husband, SS Colonel Karl-Otto Koch while working as an SS-Helferin at Sachsenhausen. She was married to Karl-Otto Kochin 1937, and soon after, he became the commandant of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Weimar, Germany. She was known for her twisted and violent behavior toward prisoners. Koch was even nicknamed “Die Hexe von Buchenwald” or “The Witch of Buchenwald.” She was arrested twice and had two trials before she was finally sentenced to life in prison on January 15, 1951. One trait that Ilse Koch possessed was cowardice. During her trial in 1951, she fainted. In this trial, Koch was

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