Ilse Koch, born Ilse Köhler, was the wife of Karl Koch, the commandant of the concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941 and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943. Ilse is infamous for taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. Claims that she had a lampshade made out of human skin have never been verified and were discounted at her post-war trial.. Wikipedia
Karl Otto Koch had already been put on trial by the Nazis themselves and executed before the war ended. www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauTrials/IlseK...
Ilse Koch (her first name has two syllables; her last name sounds like the Scottish "loch") is the most famous of all Germans accused of having committed atrocities during the war. She was the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald camp. She was twice www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/skin.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Ilse Koch. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch
What about rumors that human skin was used to bind a copy of Mein Kampf or the photo albums of Ilse Koch, "the beast of Buchenwald" and other Nazis? media.www.hlrecord.org/media/paper609/news/2005/11/10/Opi...
There is little known about the early years of Ilse Koch . She was born in Dresden Germany in 1906. She worked in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before marrying her husband Karl Koch in 1937. When her husband was appointed to be commandant at the www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects...
Ilse Koch (her first name has two syllables; her last name sounds like the Scottish"loch") is the most famous of all Germans accused of having committed atrocities during the war. She was the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald camp. She was twice www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/clay-koch-01...
