Death of Ilse Koch - Bestial Nazi guard & Sexual Deviant - Buchenwald & Sachsenhausen - Holocaust

Death of Ilse Koch - Bestial Nazi guard & Sexual Deviant - Buchenwald & Sachsenhausen - Holocaust. Ilse Koch was born Margarete Ilse Köhler on the 22nd of September 1906 in Dresden. In 1932, one year before Adolf Hitler came into power, Ilse had joined the Nazi Party. In 1936 Ilse got married to the commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Karl Otto Koch. Ilse Koch worked at Sachsenhausen as a guard and secretary. In August 1937 Karl Otto was assigned to build a new concentration camp in Buchenwald. While he was known for his personal greed in the camps that he worked in, Ilse was feared for her brutality. At Buchenwald, Ilse became known as the witch. She was obsessed with tattoos and used to ride her horse around the Buchenwald looking for tattooed prisoners. When she found one, she sent them to their death but before they were killed and burned, she would carve out the part of their skin where the tattoo was located. She used to call these pieces of skin her “