Ilse Koch, "The Bitch of Buchenwald" (as she was called due to her cruelty and sadistic treatment of prisoners), was a member of the Nazi party and the wife of concentration camp commandant Karl Otto Koch. Together they shared a passion for collecting patches of tattooed human skin and shrunken human heads. Ilse was the one who selected the livi...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.