Ilse Koch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ilse Koch

German war criminal, wife of Karl-Otto Koch

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1906

Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Sep-1967

Profession: torturer, concentration camp guard

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald (1937–1941) and Majdanek (1941–1943).
In 1947, she became one of the first prominent Nazis tried by the U.S.
military. After the trial received worldwide media attention, survivor accounts of her actions resulted in other authors describing her abuse of prisoners as sadistic, and the image of her as "the concentration camp murderess" was current in post-war German society.She was accused of taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos, although those claims were rejected at both of her trials.
She was known as "The Witch of Buchenwald" (Die Hexe von Buchenwald) by the inmates because of her cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners.
In English, she is referred to as: "The Beast of Buchenwald", "Queen of Buchenwald", "Red Witch of Buchenwald", "Butcher Widow", and more commonly, "The Bitch of Buchenwald".