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Buchenwald Bondi (Original Post) ProudProgressiveNow Thursday OP
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4. The "Witch of Buchenwald" is sentenced to prison
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 03:08 PM
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Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. Ilse Koch was nicknamed the “Witch of Buchenwald” for her extraordinary sadism.

Born in Dresden, Germany, Ilse, a librarian, married SS. Col. Karl Koch in 1936. Colonel Koch, a man with his own reputation for sadism, was the commandant of the Sashsenhausen concentration camp, two miles north of Berlin. He was transferred after three years to Buchenwald concentration camp, 4.5 miles northwest of Weimar; the Buchenwald concentration camp held a total of 20,000 slave laborers during the war.


https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-15/the-witch-of-buchenwald-is-sentenced-to-prison
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