she has been discussed in any threads- i am looking to inform myself on her evil actions.
I heard a lot about her in thelast htreads and it is thefirst time i hear her name -
Can you please give me info on why she was so evil ? and give me appropriate links please (other posts - and or sites)
jouda2000
I want to learn more on Isle Koch
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Koch, Ilse Kohler "Bitch of Buchenwald" (1906-1.9.1967) [SS-Hilferinnen] -- service, concentration camp (Konzentrationslager - KL) Buchenwald {arrested and put on trial 11 Apr 1947 by an American military tribunal at Dachau for the mistreatment and murder of allied nationals at KL Buchenwald (NYT 12 Apr 1947:5:4; NYT 15 Apr 1947:8:5; NYT 11 Jul 1947:6:3); convicted 12 Aug 1947 (NYT 13 Aug 1947:14:4); { sentenced to life imprisonment 14 Aug 1947 (NYT 15 Aug 1947:5:2; LT 15 Aug 1947:4g); sentence commuted to 4 years imprisonment by Military Governor General Lucius D. Clay 16 Sept 1948 (NYT 17 Sept 1948:1:1; NYT 18 Sept 1948:6:2; NYT 21 Sept 1948:26:3; NYT 23 Sept 1948:28:6; NYT 24 Sept 1948:3:4; NYT 25 Sept 1948:6:8; NYT 30 Sept 1948:11:6; NYT 1 Oct 1948:11:1; NYT 8 Oct 1948:10:3; NYT 9 Oct 1948:3:2; NYT 18 Oct 1948:22:6; NYT 22 Oct 1948:5:1; NYT 23 Oct 1948:4:3; NYT 27 Dec 1948:1:4; NYT 25 May 1950:1:3; LT 17 Sept 1948:3c); new US trial barred by General Lucius D. Clay 22 Mar 1949 (NYT 23 Mar 1949:21:2); trial promised by German authorities 9 Oct 1948 (NYT 10 Oct 1948:19:4; NYT 17 Oct 1948:3:6; NYT 23 Mar 1949:21:2); extradition sought by East Germany 23 Mar 1949 (NYT 24 Mar 1949:18:3; NYT 23 Oct 1949:16:1); released from American custody 17 Oct 1949 (NYT 18 Oct 1949:2:3 & 11:2; NYT 25 Dec 1949:IV:5:5); arrested immediately after release by Bavarian police 17 Oct 1949 (LT 18 Oct 1949:3d); impending trial after release from American custody announced by authorities in Bavaria, West Germany 7 Jun 1949 (NYT 8 Jun 1949:8:4; NYT 6 Jul 1949:13:5; NYT 7 Aug 1949:16:2; NYT 13 Aug 1949:4:6); NYT 6 Oct 1949:11:1); committed to hospital for mental evaluation 4 Feb 1950 by German authorities (NYT 5 Feb 1950:31:1; NYT 11 Mar 1950:2:2); indicted by a West German court 25 May 1950 (NYT 26 May 1950:10:3; LT 26 May 1950:5b); impending trial announced by West German authorities 4 Jul 1950 (NYT 5 Jul 1950:20:6; NYT 29 Jul 1950:5:7); put on trial by a West German court at Augsburg 27 Nov 1950 on charges of murdering and mistreating prisoners at KL Buchenwald between 1938-1942 (NYT 28 Nov 1950:19:5; NYT 29 Nov 1950:22:3; NYT 30 Nov 1950:22:1; NYT 12 Dec 1950:20:6; NYT 16 Dec 1950:8:7; NYT 19 Dec 1950:15:5; NYT 30 Dec 1950:3:1; NYT 12 Jan 1951:2:5; NYT 12 Jan 1951:30:5; LT 28 Nov 1950:3d); convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment 15 Jan 1951 (NYT 16 Jan 1951:1:2; NYT 18 Jan 1951:15:2; LT 16 Jan 1951:4e; JuNSV Verfahren Lfd.Nr.262; LG Augsburg 510115; BGH 520422); appeal denied by the West German Supreme Court 22 Apr 1952 (LT 23 Apr 1952:5a); sued Bavaria to collect pension of executed husband SS-Standartenführer Karl Otto Koch, former commander of KL Buchenwald and KL Majdanek (NYT 18 Oct 1966:6:4); hanged herself in Aichach Prison; Bavaria 1 Sept 1967 (NYT 3 Sept 1967:1:4). SS judicial investigator Dr. jur. Konrad Morgen evaluated her as "a perverted, nymphomaniacal, hysterical, power-mad demon." (Snyder Ency 198; Encyclopedia of the Third Reich p. 507; SS: Roll of Infamy p. 96; Buchenwald Report p. 43n; Third Reich Factbook - Marcus Wendel and Dean Robson, "SS personnel serving at Buchenwald," http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/ss-ca ... enwald.htm; Third Reich Factbook - Marcus Wendel and Dean Robson, "Buchenwald Trial," http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/warcr ... enwald.htm).}