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Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch

September 22, 1906

September 1, 1967

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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".

German war criminal, wife of camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch (1906–1967)

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