Ilse Koch
Born in Dresden, Germany in 1906. She joined the Nazi party in 1932. Four years after she her future husband karl otto Koch. Married him in 1897- 1945 they both became a SS-Aufseherin at camp called Buchenwald. People called her the “bitch of Buchenwald. They named her that because she had a cruelty towards the prisoners and her sadistic behavior. Ilse used her sexual powers to wonder around the camp naked with a whip in her hand. She was especially fond of riding her horse through the camp, whipping any prisoner who attracted her attention. Any man that looked glanced at her would have been shot right then and there. Her hobby was collecting lampshades out of any prisoner who had interesting tattoos; she was the one who selected the prisoner that would have been killed. But no evidence was found in her home of any lampshades that she made from prisoners tattooed skin .She also had a thing with gloves made from the skins of specially murdered concentration camp inmates.
1942 her taste in lampshade of human skin was describe by a witness in the “The Nuemberg Trials” after war. Kochs received a punitive transfer to Majdanek was arrested by the Gestapo. Accused of the embezzlement of more than 700,000RM. Though Ilse was acquitted and spent time in prison on different charges. After serving only two years, General Lucius D. Clay, the military governor of American zone in Germany, pardoned her. As a result of the international condemnation this decision received, Koch was re-arrested in 1949 and tried before a West German court for instigation to murder in 135 cases. She was sentenced to life-imprisonment on January 15, 1951. She committed suicide buy hanging herself in her cell in 1967. Her husband was charged with unauthorized murder of three prisoners. Karl Otto was convicted and shot in April 1945.