It minimized them. It reduced the sentence of Frau Ilse Koch from life imprisonment to four years. Frau Koch, widow of a former Buchenwald commandant, is known as the Bitch of Buchenwald.

Operating under strict discipline from 1939 to 1945, Ilse Koch —infamously known as the “Witch of Buchenwald” and spouse of SS commandant Karl Otto Koch—exhibited extreme sadism.

For seven weeks, concentration-camp survivors had paraded to the witness stand at Augsburg to accuse Ilse Koch, the “Bitch of Buchenwald,” of brutalities. “Lies, all lies,” screamed the ...

Described as 'the most famous of all Germans having committed atrocities during the war' by the Jewish Virtual Library, Ilse Koch has won a diabolic kind of immortality as the lady with the ...

It all started with a call that was placed to Morgen's office by the SS Police County XX11, Kassel, who was responsible for the Buchenwald ... to testify against Ilse Koch, Karl Koch's wife ...

with Tomaz Jardim of the Toronto Metropolitan University discussing his book Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the Bitch of Buchenwald. Brandeis in 1948: The Quest for Rights and Social Justice October 13, ...