According to statistics, most of the maniacs and perverts are men. However, there are women who can give odds to any maniac, whom the tongue does not dare to call the weak or fair sex. One of them is Ilse Koch, or "Frau Lampshade", who, along with another SS, tops the list of the most terrible women in the whole world history.
To bring Hitler's ideas to life, performers were needed - people without pity, compassion and conscience. The Nazi regime diligently created a system that could produce them.
The Nazis created many concentration camps in the territory they occupied, intended for the so-called "racial cleansing" of Europe. The fact that the prisoners were disabled, old people, children did not matter to the sadists from the SS. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau and Buchenwald became hell on earth, where people were systematically gassed, starved and beaten.
Ilse Köhler was born in Dresden to a working-class family. At school she was a diligent student and a very cheerful child. In her youth she worked as a librarian, she loved and was loved, she was successful with the village guys, but she always considered herself superior to others, clearly exaggerating her dignity. In 1932 she joined the NSDAP. In 1934 she met Karl Koch, whom she married two years later.
How did Ilse turn from a quiet, inconspicuous librarian into a monster that kept the whole of Buchenwald at bay?
Very simply: "like attracts like" and when her egoism combined with the ambitions of the SS man Karl Koch, Ilse's hidden perversity became apparent.
In 1936, Ilse volunteered to work in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where Karl served. In Sachsenhaus, Karl even among "his own" acquired a reputation as a sadist. At that time, Koch reveled in power, watching the daily destruction of people, his wife received even more pleasure from the torment of prisoners. In the camp they were more afraid of her than the commandant himself.
In 1937, Karl Koch was appointed commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where Ilse was notorious for her brutality towards prisoners. The prisoners said that she often walked around the camp, distributing lashes to everyone she met in striped clothes. Sometimes Ilse took a hungry ferocious shepherd with her and set it on pregnant women or exhausted prisoners, she was delighted with the horror experienced by the prisoners. It is not surprising that behind her back she was called "the bitch of Buchenwald."
Frau Koch was inventive and constantly came up with new tortures, for example, she regularly sent prisoners to be torn to pieces by two Himalayan bears in a state zoo.
But this lady's true passion was tattoos. She ordered the male prisoners to undress and examined their bodies. She was not interested in those who did not have tattoos, but if she saw an exotic pattern on someone's body, then her eyes lit up, because this meant that she was facing another victim.
Ilse was later nicknamed "Frau Lampshade". She used the dressed skin of murdered men to create a variety of household utensils, which she was extremely proud of. She found the skin of gypsies and Russian prisoners of war with tattoos on the chest and back to be the most suitable for crafts. This allowed us to make things very "decorative". Ilse especially liked the lampshades.
One of the prisoners, the Jew Albert Grenovsky, who was forced to work in the pathological laboratory of Buchenwald, said after the war that the prisoners selected by Ilse with tattoos were taken to the dispensary. There they were killed using lethal injections.
There was only one reliable way not to get "bitch" on the lampshade - to disfigure your skin or die in a gas chamber. To some, this seemed like a blessing. Bodies of "artistic value" were taken to the pathological laboratory, where they were treated with alcohol and carefully skinned. Then it was dried, oiled vegetable oil and packed in special bags.
And Ilse, meanwhile, improved her skills. She began to create gloves, tablecloths and even openwork underwear from human skin. “I saw the tattoo that adorned Ilse’s panties on the back of one of the gypsies from my block,” said Albert Grenovsky.
Apparently, Ilse Koch's savage entertainment became fashionable among her colleagues in other concentration camps, which multiplied in the Nazi empire like mushrooms after rain. It was a pleasure for her to correspond with the wives of the commandants of other camps and give them detailed instructions how to turn human skin into exotic book bindings, lampshades, gloves or tablecloths.
However, one should not think that Frau Lampshade was alien to all human feelings. One day, Ilse saw a tall, stately young man in a crowd of prisoners. The broad-shouldered two-meter hero immediately liked Frau Koch and she ordered the guards to intensively fatten the young Czech. A week later he was given a tailcoat and taken to the chambers of the mistress. She came out to him in a pink peignoir, with a glass of champagne in her hand. However, the guy grimaced: “- I will never sleep with you. You are an SS woman, and I am a communist! Damn you!"
Ilse slapped the impudent slap in the face and immediately called the guards. The young man was shot, and Ilse ordered the heart, in which the bullet was stuck, to be taken out of his body and alcoholized. She placed the heart capsule on her nightstand. At night, the light was often on in her bedroom - Ilse, by the light of the “tattooed” lampshade, looking at the dead heroic heart, composed romantic poems ...
Soon the authorities drew attention to the "cannibalistic craft" of Mrs. Koch. At the end of 1941, the Kochs appeared before the SS court in Kassel on charges of "excessive cruelty and moral decay." However, at that time the sadists managed to escape punishment. And only in 1944 a trial took place, at which they failed to evade responsibility.
On a cold April morning in 1945, just a few days before the camp was liberated by the Allied forces, Karl Koch was shot in the courtyard of the same camp, where he had recently controlled thousands of human destinies.
The widowed Ilse was no less guilty than her husband. Many prisoners believed that Koch committed crimes under the diabolical influence of his wife. However, in the eyes of the SS, her guilt was insignificant. The sadist was released from custody. Nevertheless, she did not return to Buchenwald.
After the collapse of the “Third Reich”, Ilse Koch hid, hoping that while they were catching “ big fish”in the SS and the Gestapo, everyone will forget about her. She was at large until 1947, when justice finally caught up with her.
Once in prison, Ilse made a statement in which she assured that she was only a “servant” of the regime. She denied making things from human skin and claimed that she was surrounded by secret enemies of the Reich, who slandered her, trying to avenge her official zeal.
In 1951, a turning point came in the life of Ilse Koch. General Lucius Clay, High Commissioner of the American Occupation Zone in Germany, by his decision shocked the world on both sides of the Atlantic - both the population of his country and the Federal Republic of Germany, which arose on the ruins of the defeated "Third Reich". He gave Ilse Koch her freedom, stating that there was only "minor evidence that she ordered someone to be executed, and there was no evidence of her involvement in the manufacture of tattooed leather crafts."
When the criminal was released, the world refused to believe in the validity of this decision. Washington lawyer William Denson, who was the prosecutor at the trial that sentenced Ilse Koch to life in prison, said: “This is a terrible miscarriage of justice. Ilse Koch was one of the most notorious sadists among the Nazi criminals. It is impossible to count the number of people who want to testify against her, not only because she was the wife of the camp commandant, but also because she is a creature cursed by God.
However, Frau Koch was not destined to enjoy freedom, as soon as she got out of the American military prison in Munich, she was arrested by the German authorities and put back in jail. The Themis of the new Germany, seeking to somehow make amends for the mass crimes of the Nazis, immediately put Ilse Koch in the dock.
The Bavarian Ministry of Justice began searching for former prisoners of Buchenwald, extracting new evidence that would allow them to be locked up war criminal in a cell for the rest of her days. 240 witnesses testified in court. They talked about the atrocities of a sadist in a Nazi death camp.
This time, Ilse Koch was judged by the Germans, in whose name the Nazi, in her opinion, faithfully served the Fatherland. She was again sentenced to life imprisonment. She was firmly told that this time she could not count on any indulgence.
That year, on September 1, in a cell in a Bavarian prison, she ate her last schnitzel with salad, tied the sheets and hanged herself. "Bitch of Buchenwald" personally committed suicide.
This woman went down in world history as one of the most sophisticated Nazi criminals. The reporters who were present at the court hearing in the case of the bloodthirsty sadist, in the materials called her exclusively "Buchenwald bitch" and "Frau Lampshade." So, get acquainted: the infamous Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of one of the largest German concentration camps. A Nazi who made souvenirs from human skin.
At first, there were no signs of trouble. Little Ilse Köhler (that was her maiden name) was born in Dresden. She studied well at school, in her youth got a job in the library. Then no one could have thought that from a quiet, modest girl who spent most of her time among bookcases, you get a real monster. The point of no return for Ilsa was the entry into the ranks of the NSDAP - a party headed by Adolf Hitler, who had not yet come to absolute power. The leader of the movement liked the girl, and his political program Köhler seemed competent and reasonable.
Since then, Ilsa's life has changed dramatically: she plunged into party work. In 1936 professional activity Frau Koch also underwent significant adjustments: she now worked as a secretary concentration camp Sachsenhausen. Shortly after joining the NSDAP and having a successful job, Ilse met Karl Koch, a member of the party, and married him. Previously, the woman's husband traded in theft and fraud, and now, thanks to party acquaintances, he has moved up the career and social ladder and became the commandant of Sachsenhausen. It was there that the couple began a relationship. Soon Karl was transferred to the new, recently organized Buchenwald camp, and his faithful wife Ilse followed him.
At the new place of work, the Kokhov couple received almost unlimited power over the prisoners. It was then that their sadistic inclinations began to fully manifest themselves. Ilsa, who was appointed by her husband-commandant to the position of senior warden among the female guards, especially distinguished herself. Note that in intimate terms, Ilse was not very lucky with her husband: it turned out that Karl had homosexual inclinations, and his wife did not attract him. The commandant was carried away by male prisoners, who had no way to evade Koch's dirty harassment. Ilsa also had even more cruel entertainment.
The prisoners of Buchenwald were afraid of the senior warder like fire. Even the commandant himself did not inspire them with such animal fear. Frau Koch came up with chilling ways of bullying the prisoners of the camp: she sent them to clean the paths with a toothbrush, and then mercilessly beat those who did not fit in the allotted time with a whip. As you might guess, no one could cope with Ilsa's vile orders, so everyone got lashes. Koch also chose the most attractive prisoners for love pleasures: she literally raped men, forced them to obey any of her orders. Ilse was delighted with the opportunity to humiliate, hurt, insult and at the same time feel free from punishment.
The miraculously escaped prisoners of the terrible concentration camp recalled that the “Buchenwald bitch” loved to inspect the camp on horseback, “treating” the prisoners with their favorite whip right from the saddle. Sometimes Ilsa would leave her horse in the stall and take a walk. On these occasions, Frau Koch was accompanied by a huge shepherd dog, as ferocious as her mistress. Ilse set the dog on the unfortunate prisoners, and she often gnawed them to death.
Also, the perverted sadist liked to annoy the male prisoners by going out to them in very revealing outfits: for example, in tight-fitting blouses or short skirts. For men who had not been close to women for many months, this was quite cruel. However, this is exactly what Ilsa wanted. Also within the walls of Buchenwald, the Frau managed to have an affair with several SS men.
However, the Koch couple paid for their atrocities long before the defeat of Hitler's army. In 1942, the commandant of Buchenwald was accused of bribery, embezzlement of state property and the murder of Dr. Walter Kremer, who treated Koch for syphilis and could tell anyone about it. In connection with these accusations, Karl was arrested and soon shot. His wife was also taken into custody, but soon all charges were dropped from her and she was released.
A well-deserved punishment overtook Ilsa only after the end of the war. She was accused not only of all the atrocities mentioned, but of something even more out of bounds. A particular atrocity, in which Frau Koch was suspected, was the manufacture various items everyday life (for example, lampshades for lighting fixtures) from human skin and bones. That is why Ilsa was given another sad nickname - “Frau Lampshade”. There were a lot of witnesses who claimed that the commandant's wife and her accomplice Dr. Kremer (yes, the same one killed by Karl Koch) were actually doing something similar. However, the accusers were never able to find material evidence, so the "Buchenwald Witch" was not sentenced to death penalty: He was just put in jail. Ilse spent about twenty years in prison, after which she hanged herself in her cell.
In the past, an inconspicuous librarian, this Frau entered the list of the most cruel women peace. She was called the "Buchenwald Witch", "Buchenwald Bitch" and "Frau Lampshade". So, get acquainted: the infamous Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of one of the largest German concentration camps. A Nazi who made souvenirs from human skin.
Ilse Köhler was born in Dresden to a working-class family. At school she was a diligent student and a very cheerful child. In her youth she worked as a librarian, she loved and was loved, she was successful with the village guys, but she always considered herself superior to others, clearly exaggerating her dignity. In 1932 she joined the NSDAP. In 1934 she met Karl Koch, whom she married two years later.
How did Ilsa turn from a quiet, inconspicuous librarian into a monster that kept the whole of Buchenwald at bay? Quite simply: "like attracts like" - when her selfishness combined with the ambitions of the SS man Karl Koch, Ilsa's hidden perversity became apparent.
A few years later, Ilse went to voluntary service in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where her husband worked. Soon the prisoners began to fear her more than the commandant himself.
Prisoners said that she often walked with a whip in her hands and gave out blows to everyone, and also set dogs on pregnant women or old people for fun.
The terrible nickname "Frau Lampshade" Ilsa received for her love for other people's tattoos. The prisoners said that the sadist ordered the killing of prisoners with tattoos, in order to then make various original crafts(in particular, lampshades, gloves, book bindings).
Ilsa called the skin of gypsies and Russian prisoners of war the most suitable “material” for crafts, since they often had tattoos on their chests and backs.
To avoid a fatal fate, prisoners often disfigured their tattoos or tried to get into the gas chamber, where they deteriorated.
Ilsa Koch made all sorts of things from flayed skin, even gloves and fishnet underwear. The house of the Koch family kept a real collection of such things.
However, the Koch couple paid for their atrocities long before the defeat of Hitler's army. In late 1942, the couple appeared before a Nazi court on charges of "excessive cruelty and moral decay." The commandant of Buchenwald was accused of bribery, embezzlement of state property and the murder of Dr. Walter Kremer, who treated Koch for syphilis and could tell anyone about it. In connection with the accusations, Karl was arrested and shot. His wife was also taken into custody, but soon all charges were dropped from her and she was released.
Koch was at large until 1947, when she was detained, but completely denied her own involvement in the brutal deaths in concentration camps.
A collection of human skin samples with tattoos of Buchenwald prisoners and other material evidence were presented at the meeting.
There were a lot of witnesses who claimed that the commandant's wife and her accomplice Dr. Kremer (yes, the one killed by Karl Koch) actually made crafts from human skin and bones. However, the accusers failed to collect sufficient evidence, so the "Buchenwald Witch" was not sentenced to death: she was just put in jail.
Strikingly, a few years later, the American General Lucius Clay, the military commander of the American occupation zone in Germany, released her, considering the charges of issuing execution orders and making souvenirs from human skin insufficiently proven.
This decision provoked a protest from the public, so in 1951 Ilse Koch was arrested again and sentenced by a West German court to life imprisonment.
Appeals later filed by the woman were quickly dismissed. In the end, Koch's journey ended on September 1, 1967. The "Buchenwald Witch" took her own life by hanging herself in her own cell.
The image of Ilse Koch served as a prototype for the heroine of the film Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS (1975), the first of a series of Nazi exploitation (erotic fantasies against the backdrop of the Third Reich).
Elsa Koch can rightly be called one of the most cruel women Nazi Germany. Frau Abajour - such a nickname was given to her by journalists who covered the post-war courts in the media.
Elsa Koch (nee Köhler) was born in 1906 to a low-income family. The hardships of life have nurtured in young Elsa the understanding that life is not an easy thing. Elsa's parents could not provide a decent future for their daughter. Therefore, from an early age, she learned to rely only on herself.
Pure gene pool
Not distinguished in childhood and youth by special beauty, Elsa, nevertheless, had a high opinion of herself. Due to a strong desire to escape from the working environment, at the age of fifteen, Elsa enters the school of accountants and subsequently gets a job as a clerk in the accounting department. Times were not the best: famine reigned all around. Therefore, it is not surprising that Elsa was imbued with sympathy for the new party in Germany and its leader, Adolf Hitler. Another ten years passed before Elsa Köhler decides to join the NSDAP. In 1932, Elsa's idol, Adolf Hitler, came to power. And from that moment begins to write new story states of Germany.
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At this point, Elsa is already in her 26th year and membership in the party gives her huge advantage- entry into a decent marriage. A party acquaintance introduces her to a divorced man - Karl Otto Koch. Her future husband also came from the lower strata of society, and besides this, in the past he was a thief and a swindler. For a short time he collaborated with the German police, acting as an informer, but thanks to party membership he quickly climbed the career ladder.
Mutual sympathy flares up between them and in 1936 they legalize their marriage. At first, their marriage proceeded as ordinary as possible against the backdrop of the formation of a new German society. But when her husband is appointed commandant of the German concentration camp Buchenwald, she follows him and her life begins to change dramatically.
"Camp Pleasures"
The "promising" party member, whom Elsa considered her husband, in fact turned out to be a sadist with pronounced homosexual inclinations. It seems that such tendencies should have disturbed and even annoyed Elsa, but she simply did not pay attention to it. And in this regard, each of them lived the way he wanted - Elsa Koch openly asserted herself with the help of power, and Karl Koch raped male prisoners. The prisoners of Buchenwald feared Frau Koch much more than the commandant himself.
Elsa became famous for her ingenuity. Under her close supervision, the prisoners could scrub the camp foothold with toothbrushes all day long. Elsa could also whip with her own hand, which she always carried with her. She also liked to order her subordinates to select the most beautiful prisoners of the camp and bring them to her to satisfy her. sexual needs. And Elsa's needs were very specific: she liked to inspire fear and horror in her victims, and she got the greatest pleasure in humiliating others.
Survivors of this terrible time in the concentration camp say that sometimes Frau Koch appeared accompanied by a large german shepherd and with a smile on her lips she lowered this animal so that this creature would satisfy its hunger with human flesh. Often such entertainment ended in the death of one of the prisoners.
Lack of evidence or cruelty breeds cruelty
In 1943, Mr. and Mrs. Koch are taken into custody. Carl is convicted and Elsa is released for lack of evidence. Frau Koch continues to live in peace until her arrest by the Americans, which took place in June 1945. Her husband was less fortunate - Karl was shot a month before the fall of Berlin.
Elsa Koch was tried three times for the same crime, for which no evidence could be found. But at the last trial, it was decided to find her guilty even in the absence of evidence.
During the Nuremberg trials, another horrifying fact is revealed that Elsa did while in Buchenwald - she tore off tattooed skin from prisoners (sometimes even from living ones) and made lampshades and handbags out of them, with which she then went out into the light. Ten witnesses confirmed these rumors, but none of the objects of her "creativity" was ever found. And after the publication of a new fact from the life of Elsa, journalists began to call her Frau Lampshade.
