During the Second World War in Germany was ruled by the Nazi criminals.The women among them, oddly enough, is also met.For example, the brightest cruel matron considered Ilse Koch, nicknamed Frau lampshade.She even from a young age was an active member of the National Socialist Workers' Party.As she joined the Nazi Party in 1932.
During the period of the prison matron in concentration camps Ilse made a huge amount to crimes against humanity.The worst of them - is that she and her husband were made various products from human skin.However, to this day there is debate about the veracity of all the crimes attributed to this odious pair.
Childhood matron concentration camps of the Second World
In ordinary German family in the city of Dresden in 1906, there was a beautiful daughter.The parents had high hopes for the future of their children.Normal family future "Buchenwald witch" had no idea that their lovely girl who brings only joy in the future will receive a terrible nickname Frau lampshade.A young girl was a good student in school, giving another reason for her parents to be calm for her future.After school, Ilse Koch was arranged to work in the library.The turning point in the lives of the girls came with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1932.It was then that she is still cheerful and humble, joined the National Socialist Party, which soon led to acquaintance with Karl Koch - Ilse future husband.
Husband "Buchenwald witches"
Father Karl Koch was an official from Darmiggadta.He was 13 years older than the mother.He died when the boy was eight years old.The future concentration camp commandant did not please his mother good grades in school.And after a while, and all I dropped out and got a messenger at a local factory.As soon as he knocked seventeen guy immediately he enlisted in the army as a volunteer.
By that time, Western Europe has swallowed up the First World War.However, due to interference with the mother's right of call-point guy returned home.But already in 1916, when Charles was nineteen, he still managed to get to the front.The young rookie went through all the horrors of trench life on the very busy area of the Western Front.Karl Koch ended the war in a POW camp, but when he returned to Germany, I immediately got the post of a bank employee, and in 1924 he married.
But in two years the bank goes bankrupt, at the same time the marriage fell apart, and the future overseer.
young man decided their problems with the help of the Nazis.He just joined the SS.And already in 1936 Charles Koch led the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen.His ability in this area measured above the average, since it is here that he was himself - a notorious sadist.Just this quality of his character, and helped to win the favor of Ilse Koch.
Today it is believed that all the commandants of the concentration camps - Nazi criminals.Women diligently helped to serve their husbands.And Elsa and Carl accurately find each other.And in 1937, tied the knot, the couple Koch swears allegiance to the devil and starts his official duties with even greater brutality and bloodthirstiness.
first brutal work
Karl and Ilse Koch became the first employees of the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen in the city of Oranienburg.The man became commandant and his wife was faithful guard and acted as secretary.
year later for good service and excellent work couple transferred to a camp Buchenwald.This is where the potential of brutal women revealed in full.Fulfilling the role of matron Ilse Koch - SS wolf - daily torture sessions arranged for the prisoners.Do not trust anyone, even the worst job Ilsa own beat whip or whip people.The only one woman could trust his case, it was a hungry shepherd that bite to death prisoners of Buchenwald to death.
German concentration camps did not know of such cruelty and ruthlessness on the part of a fragile woman.
Frau Shade
commandant's wife seriously interested in prisoners whose bodies were decorated with tattoos.To their great disappointment, they were the first in line for certain death.The fact is that from the skin of prisoners Ilse Koch, whose biography is already full of horrifying facts, doing various crafts: from gloves and book bindings, ending shades or even underwear.Fantasies of this woman knew no bounds.
In 1941 Frau Shade was appointed senior matron, which gave even more power and authority to make it unlimited.Since then, Ilse Koch allowed herself to almost everything.
«victims of slander»
his ill-treatment of prisoners, as well as "antics" Ilsa boasted before the other guards.Therefore, soon we learned of this, and higher power.To their credit - rumors caused the arrest of the couple for abuse of authority.However, for the first time sadists released without punishment, arguing that they were victims of slander from the enemies.
a while Karl Koch "to atone for the sins" - served as a counselor in another camp, but soon returned to his native wife of Buchenwald.
Other crimes
fall of the same in 1941 Karl was appointed commandant of the concentration camp at Majdanek, where Elsa Koch - "witch Buchenwald" - continued its torture of prisoners with even more enthusiasm.In 1942, her husband was accused of corruption.This led to his immediate dismissal from office.
Medieval torture
Nazi war criminals received unprecedented pleasure from the fact that the tormented and tortured prisoners.One of the favorite tool of the pair became the scourge of the entire length of which were inserted pieces of razor sharp.That instrument could score a man to death.
Karl introduced the widespread use of a vise finger and branding with a hot iron.Such penalties can be applied to any violators of the order of the concentration camps.Throughout Germany, the orders were the same, but the cruelty Koch hit sometimes even their adherents.Bloodlust spouses frightened even the most brutal of the Nazis.
German concentration camps had the same laws and regulations: the weak and sick prisoners were killed immediately, and able-bodied were forced to work for the benefit of the Third Reich, and in inhuman conditions.Hunger and overwork led prisoners to death, but Koch, watching it, reveled in the power and Ilsa come up with new sophisticated methods of abuse.
execution of Charles Koch
A year after the first trial Nazi criminals (however, if such they were not considered because they were tried at the time the Nazis themselves) have been accused in the murder of Dr. Walter cream.During the investigation, the SS officers found that he treated Karl syphilis, and then was killed in order to avoid publicity.
At the trial, which took place in 1944, swam out and the fact of theft by Koch, which in the eyes of the higher ranks of the SS was an unpardonable crime.
During the investigation it became known about the secret accounts of the pair of sadists.Thus, the funds that were supposed to go to a safe Reichsbank in Berlin, settled at Koch.Former commander took away their prisoners all the jewels and personal belongings, money, and even the dead tearing gold crowns.Thus Karl Koch provided the post-war welfare of his family.
And it is for this crime, not the abuse of prisoners, or of anti-human behavior in the camps of the former commandant was shot in April 1945.Before his death, Koch begged to let him serve a sentence in a hot spot in a penal battalion, but the referee was adamant.
He was executed in just a few days before the camp was liberated by Allied troops.Ironically, this happened in the yard of the camp, where he vomited for several years disposed of thousands of human lives.His widow, Ilse Koch was guilty of no less than her husband.Almost all the survivors and released prisoners claimed that Charles committed crimes under the influence of a brutal and bloodthirsty wife.However, it fell short of the proceedings.At the time, the woman came to live with his parents.
first conclusion
But Ilse Koch still had to answer for those crimes.June 30, 1945 it again was taken into custody, the investigation lasted two years.In 1947, the SS she-wolf was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Until woman denies any wrongdoing, saying that it was only "a victim of the regime."The involvement of a terrible and terrifying "hack" of a Human skin refused to say, it does not recognize.
to answer for their crimes, Ilse Koch was brought before an American military tribunal in the city of Munich.For several weeks, the former Buchenwald camp inmates to testify against this terrible woman.Their eyes glowed not with fear and anger.
prosecutor said that at the hands of Frau Shade froze the blood of fifty thousand prisoners of Buchenwald.And the fact that a woman is pregnant, can not absolve her from punishment.
US General Emil Kiel read the sentence: life imprisonment.
Ilse Koch: SS wolf on the loose again
But then luck has not left "witch Buchenwald."In 1951, General Lucius Clay, a prosecutor shook his shocking statement entire world.He was released on freedom of Ilse Koch, explaining this act by the fact that there was no sufficient number of direct evidence against this woman.And the testimony of hundreds of witnesses who have been told about the abuse and sadism wolf, Clay thought unreasonable to life imprisonment.
Liberation Frau Shade caused a wave of indignation on the part of the people, therefore, in the same 1951 the German government issued another order on her arrest.
Ilse Koch has become a habit to deny any accusations, explaining them that it was a hostage of circumstances, the servant of strict regime.She did not want to admit guilt and said that all his life was surrounded by secret enemies of the Reich, which stipulates it.
last conclusion
New Germany sought to atone for the mass crimes of the Nazis and tough, and therefore the conclusion of Ilse Koch was a matter of principle.Immediately she was placed in the dock, all the forces of the Bavarian Ministry of Justice have been thrown in search of new evidence in the case Koch.
As a result, 240 witnesses gave evidence in her case.All these people are told again about the atrocities sadistic family, called the Buchenwald death camp.And this time, Ilse Koch was judged not the Americans, and the Germans who, according to the most Frau Shade, she once served faithfully.
military court sentenced a criminal to life imprisonment.And this was the last time: it was firmly stated that now Ilse Koch will not be able to rely on any leniency.
Suicide "Witch of Buchenwald"
In 1967, Ilse Koch wrote a letter to his son, Uwe, who was born shortly after the issuance of the first sentence.In it, she complained about the unfairness of the judicial decision and wrote that now she has to answer for the sins of others.In all her letters to her son was not a hint of remorse crimes.
1 September of the same year "witch Buchenwald", while in the chamber of the Bavarian prison, last supper, wrote a farewell letter to his son, and bound sheets and hanged.
In 1971, the son of Ilse Koch, whom she bore a German soldier tried to restore the name of his evil mother.He took her name and brought before the court, referring to it with heartfelt letter to the editor of the newspaper "New York Times".However, his attempts were unsuccessful.
