Ilse Koch

Born

September 22, 1906

Died

September 1, 1967 (aged 60)

Known as

torturer, concentration camp guard, librarian, war criminal

Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".

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