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  Karl Otto Koch
Karl Koch was born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1897.
Karl Otto Koch, a colonel of German Schutzstaffel (SS), was the first commandant of Buchenwald (from 1937 to 1941).
In August 1943, Karl Koch was arrested by the Gestapo at the request of SS judge Josias Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont.
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 Ilse Koch
Ilse Koch was born in Dresden, Germany in 1906.
Four years later, she married Karl Otto Koch (1897-1945), head of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, who in 1937 was assigned to build a new concentration camp in Buchenwald.
At the end of the war, Koch was arrested and charged with "participating in a common criminal plan for encouraging, aiding, abetting and participating in the atrocities at Buchenwald." In 1947, an American military tribunal found Koch found guilty and sentenced her to life-imprisonment.
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 Karl Otto Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Karl Otto Koch (August 2, 1897 - April 5, 1945), a colonel of German Schutzstaffel (SS), was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald (from 1937 to 1941), and later at Lublin (Majdanek camp).
According to The Buchenwald Report, Col. Koch was arrested in August 1943 by the Nazis for inciting the murder of two prisoners, for embezzlement and fl market activities in the camps.
His second wife was Ilse Koch, whom he married in 1936, better known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald" (Die Hexe von Buchenwald).
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 Ilse Koch on trial at Dachau for making human lamp shades at Buchenwald
There, she met Karl Otto Koch, an SS officer who had been assigned to be the first Commandant of Sachsenhausen when the camp was opened in 1936.
After the war, Ilse Koch did not go into hiding, and after former prisoners in the camp told stories about her behavior to the American military, it was easy to track her down and arrest her as a war criminal.
Frau Koch claimed that the album contained several photos of her home which showed lampshades made from dark leather; Frau Koch said the photos showed that the lampshades were clearly not made from human skin.
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 koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Robert Koch - German physician, discoverer of the tubercle and cholera bacilli, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1905
Ilse Koch - wife of Karl, "The Bitch of Buchenwald"
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 Bizarre Magazine
Karl's reward for slipping admirably into Nazi domestic nirvana (a new life with a beautiful, German, right-wing wife; a potential Nazi Jr machine) was to be given command of the new Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar.
She was known to enjoy whatever the correct term for a seven-some is. Within a year of the Kochs' arrival at Buchenwald, Ilse was having simultaneous affairs with other officers as well as Dr Waldermar Hoven, the chief medical officer, and Hermann Florstedt, the deputy commander of the camp.
The Kochs had light switches made from dead prisoners' thumbs, and among Ilse's favourite possessions were her lampshade (which had a base made from a human tibia), a pair of gloves, and the pride of her collection: a human-skin handbag.
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 Fritz Hirschberger: "The Fifth Horseman" - Arts and Crafts in the Third Reich
Ilse Koch (aka, "The Bitch of Buchenwald), the wife of concentration camp commander Karl Otto Koch, shared her husband's hobby of collecting patches of tattooed human skin and shrunken human heads.
Koch was released in 1949, rearrested by German authorities, retried, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The fact that Koch had lamps made of human skin, which of course had to be decorated with 'artistic' tattoos, did not distinguish him from the other SS officers: They had the same 'artworks' made for their family homes.
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 Karl Otto Koch, the first Commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When Col. Koch was transferred to Majdanek, his wife stayed behind and was with Dr. Waldemar Hoven "almost all day," according to this prisoner who worked in her home.
Koch had been engaging in both, and he was eventually arrested in August 1943 for inciting the murder of two prisoners and for embezzlement.
Ilse Koch was then retried in a German court on charges of cruelty to the prisoners and incitement of murder.
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 Karl Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A German film director and writer, see Karl Koch (director)
Karl Otto Koch, commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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 Axis History Forum :: View topic - Majdanek Personnel
Karl Otto Koch was born at Darmstadt in 1897.
Later that year Koch was appointed commandant of Buchenwald, and his wife became an SS Aufseherin (overseer) at the camp.
In September, 1941, Koch was transfered due to tax evasion charges by an SS court and appointed commandant of Majdanek, a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp run by the Waffen SS.
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 Nazi Germany - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Otto Dietrich — Secretary of State, Reich Chief of the Press
Karl Hanke — Secretary of State, Propaganda Ministry
Hans Friedrich Karl Günther (not to be confused with Hans Günther)
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 Buchenwald biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The name "Buchenwald" means "beech forest" in German, such a forest surrounding the area where the camp stood.
The first commandant was Karl Otto Koch, whose second wife Ilse was known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald", one of the cruelest figures of the Holocaust.
Despite not technically being an extermination camp, mass killings of prisoners of war took place in the camp, and many inmates died during medical experiments, or fell victim to arbitrary acts perpetrated by the SS.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eicke's attitude of "inflexible harshness" also influenced the guards in the concentration camps; constant indoctrination removed any compassion for the detainees from the guards and created an atmosphere of controlled, disciplined cruelty that lived on even when Eicke was not involved with the concentration camps anymore.
Among those who were influenced by Eicke this way were Rudolf Höß, Franz Ziereis, Karl Otto Koch and Max Kögel.
Eicke's drill also contributed to the establishment of the SS-Totenkopfverbände ("SS Death's Head Units") which were part of the Waffen-SS and many members of which were former concentration camp guards, and in fact, creating these units was one of Eicke's main tasks between 1936 and 1939.
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 Majdanek - TheBestLinks.com - Extermination camp, Heinrich Himmler, Nazi, 1943, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Majdanek, Extermination camp, Heinrich Himmler, Nazi, 1943, 1941, Lublin, Karl...
There is a permanent display of a large pile of shoes seized from Madjanek victims at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Karl Otto Koch (September 1941 to July 1942)
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 Majdanek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was established in October 1941, at Heinrich Himmler's orders, following his visit to Lublin in July 1941.
Majdanek was an SS-run prisoner-of-war camp, under the command of Karl Otto Koch.
Although 1,000 inmates were evacuated on a death march, the Red Army found thousands of inmates still in the camp and ample evidence of the mass murder that had occurred there.
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 The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 42
KARL OTTO KURT KAUFFMANN Gauleiter of Hamburg 1928-1945
KARL ENGELBERT said that he filled the position of economic adviser to a Kreisleiter in Cologne from 1937 to 1945.
KARL HEINZ HOFFMANN, who was in charge of the division of the GESTAPO concerned with Western European questions and after 1943 Chief of Amt IV of the Security Police in Denmark.
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 US Military Prison Guards Like 'Nazis'? — NOT!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Since the exposé on mistreatment of foreign inmates by US soldiers in Iraqi prisons, numerous media pundits have compared the behavior of US military guards with 'Nazis.' This claim unjustly insults the Germans during the National Socialist period who punished, even executed, prison camp personnel convicted of mistreating prisoners.
On April 5, 1945, the former Commandant of Buchenwald and Majdanek Concentration Camps, Karl Otto Koch (pictured, right), was hanged to death by SS authorities after being tried for and convicted of mistreating prisoners.
Koch was charged with stealing money from prisoners and two counts of murder for executing two prisoners without authorization.
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 Nazi Germany Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Karl Brandt — Reich Comissioner of Health and Sanitation
German National Socialism, 1919-1945 by Martin Broszat; translated from the German by Kurt Rosenbaum and Inge Pauli Boehm, Santa Barbara, Calif., Clio Press 1966.
The German Dictatorship; The Origins, Structure, and Effects of National Socialism by Karl Dietrich Bracher; translated from the German by Jean Steinberg; with an Introduction by Peter Gay, New York, Praeger 1970.
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 Exakta Quiz
Emil Englisch, Otto Diebel, Emil Kirsch, Herman Schubert, Hugo Frauenstein and Konrad Koch.
Emil English, Karl Nüchterlein, Hugo Frauenstein, Herman Schubert, Otto Diebel and Konrad Koch.
Konrad Koch, Hugo Ruys, Herman Schubert, Otto Diebel, Hugo Frauenstein, Emil English.
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 Jürgen Graf, Carlo Mattogno: Concentration Camp Majdanek: A Historical and Technical Study
[55] The first was SS-Standartenführer Karl Otto Koch, who had served in Esterwegen during the first years of National Socialist rule and in Buchenwald from 1937 to 1940.
Karl Otto Koch was sentenced to death by an SS court in 1945 for his misdeeds in Buchenwald, and executed.
When Karl Otto Koch assumed his post as the first Commandant of the Lublin camp in fall 1941, he found himself faced with other tasks besides the camp's construction.
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 Nazi Germany - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For the full list, see also Nazi Party leaders and officials
Karl Dönitz-Commander of the German U-Boat force, later the German Navy
White Rose (Sophie and Hans Scholl and others)
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 Concentration Camps List
Karl Chmilewski: SS Grünewald: Green Forest Division: Adam Gruenewald.
Karl Hermann Frank: Supreme commander of the SS and the Police in Bohemia and Moravia.
Otto Walther: DEST: 45000 dead, exécution crématoire ashes thrown in garden, gas chambers, electrocution, whipped to death, phénol injection NN: Nacht und Nebel: Night andFog members of resistance movements in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway.
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 7th Battalion The Cameronians Multiple Sclerosis Research Initiative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Used mainly for the killing of Polish Jews, and Russian prisoners-of-war, it is estimated that around 235,000 people died here including civilian political prisoners, partisan and resistance group members.
Two of the camps commandants, Karl Otto Koch and Hermann Florstedt were both executed by the SS for stealing from the camps warehouses.
In the days before the arrival of the Soviet troops, 15,000 prisoners had been evacuated to other camps in the east.
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 Majdanek
The victims destined for Majdanek went by rail to Lublin and then to Majdanek by truck.
The first commandant of the camp was Karl Otto Koch.
He was executed by the Nazis for stealing from the camp warehouse and plundering goods meant for Berlin.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The most notorious war criminal, of all those who were brought before the American Military Tribunal at Dachau, was unquestionably Ilse Koch, the wife of Karl Otto Koch, the infamous former Commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and an SS-Aufseherin (female overseer) in the camp herself.
Ilse Koch was charged with the horrific crime of selecting Buchenwald prisoners to be killed by her alleged lover, Dr. Waldemar Hoven, in order to have lamp shades made from their tattooed skin.
The room where Ilse Koch and other members of the Buchenwald staff were brought before a US military tribunal was in the former service building of the Dachau concentration camp, which is now the Museum at the Memorial Site.
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 Veröffentlichungen im SFB 454
Baumgärtner D and KO Rothhaupt (2003): Predictive length-dry mass regressions for freshwater invertebrates in a pre-alpine lake littoral.
Baumgärtner, Daniel; Koch, Ulrike and Karl-Otto Rothhaupt (2003): Alteration of kairomone-induced antipredator response of the freshwater amphipod Gammarus roeseli by sediment type.
Behrmann-Godel J., Eckmann R. A preliminary telemetry study of the migration of silver European eel(Anguilla anguilla L.) in the River Mosel, Ecology of Freshwater Fish 2003, 12, 196-202
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 Massacres and Atrocities of WWII in Eastern Europe
In the days before the arrival of the Soviet troops, 15,000 prisoners had been evacuated to other camps further west.
During the month of September, 1941, Action Group A, consisting of around eight hundred men, and commanded by SS General Otto Ohlendorf, was operating on the Russian southern front.
In the period, 16th to 30th September, in the area around Nikolaev, and including the town of Cherson, they rounded up and massacred 35,782 Soviet citizens, mostly Jews.
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