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at the end of World War 2 1200 citizens
from the city of Vemma were rounded up
and ordered into the liberated
Buchenwald concentration camp the US
Army wanted them to witness a horrifying
collection of artifacts found among
thousands of dying prison
there are two heads which have been
shrunk to one fit their normal size
these and other exhibits of Nazi origin
are shown to the townspeople on a table
for all the gaze upon is a lampshade
made of human skin made at the request
of an SS officers way that officer's
wife was in so cough
her husband was the commander of pokemon
together they presided over the camp in
which a hundred thousand people
she would personally select prisoners
sentenced them to death and forced
fellow inmates to decorate the skins for
her music she was even worse in sort of
their says she's - she was a saint this
used to enjoy it she was known as the
[ __ ] of Bougainville
born in rural Saxony in 1906 in Sakura
was the daughter of a label little is
known of her modest upbringing but by
the age of 15 she was working at a
cigarette factory she was not terribly
well educated by the standards the time
she was lucky to receive the job at the
tobacco company as a clerk typist and
that's what she was doing in 1932 about
the time that Hitler begins his rise to
power the young Elsa was instantly
attracted to the hardline politics of
the far-right
she joined the party in April 1932 and
that's a fairly early date a lot of
people joined the party in the late 30s
ever ambitious Elsa became a Nazi
secretary she was singled out by him
ahead of the SS for marriage to a friend
of hers Carl cough
[ __ ] was widely known for his sadistic
tendencies as commander of the saxon
housing concentration
he was notorious for his methods of
torture Himmler liked coke and viewed
him as a protege viewed him in many ways
as a model concentration camp commander
often held him up to other commanders as
the one to emulate they were the perfect
nazi couple
one evening in 1936 a couple married in
a grove of oak trees Elsa was 30 Carl 10
years old his new bride didn't mind
Carl's reputation as a cruel
disciplinarian she believed in her
husband and was proud to have risen from
the working-classes
to the Nazi elite
in 1937 Carl was appointed commandant of
a new concentration camp in SS training
center that Buchan but she and her
husband Karl Koch arrived when the camp
opened in July 1937 as the brand new
commander of a brand new Kia
Buchan volt was one of the first and
largest incarceration facilities in nazi
germany it was a hostile isolated place
on the outskirts of Vimal
the camp held up to 10,000 male
prisoners they were a mixture of Jews
Russians Eastern Europeans and political
opponents the weak were killed and the
healthy worked to death the camp was for
hard labor not extermination unlike a
schvitz gas chambers weren't needed life
expectancy was three months as the wife
of the commandant Ilsa led a life of
luxury and privilege with her two
children all around her brutality and
degradation thrived although she had no
official rank in the camp she enjoyed
the power that came with her position
she took it on herself to mingle in the
camp's running and Affairs and it was
that process that gave her the name
nickname among the prisoners of
commandos the the woman commander the
prisoners were ruled by fear life was
worthless and murder a daily occurrence
I think eel saqqaq was drawn into that I
think along with her husband she began
to believe that they could punish
Germany's enemies in any form
however humiliating however degrading it
might be in fact the more humiliating
the better imagine a system where the
rule of law does not prevail where in
concentration camps there are no laws
other than the laws which are the whim
of the people running the place terrify
but perhaps for the people actually
running the place exhilarating
as the prisoners lived in fear of their
lives the cost lived in luxury they
built their dream home just outside the
perimeter fence
the officers lived on a street just
outside a camp they called officers row
rather comfortable existence with a row
of what were called villas the biggest
Villa was the cook Villa where Ilsa
lived during this whole time so for her
it was something very special and
extraordinary to live in a big house
with even servants that meant prisoners
from the camp doing everything for her
as the common dance wife Ilsa began to
revel in the power she held over her
prisoner slaves
while some prisons for example would
park in the garden or even in her
kitchen and the reports say that it was
always unclear what would happen the
next moment whether she would feel fine
and everything is done well from her
perspective or whether she would say the
person didn't fulfill his duties as his
life to her household and then she could
easily say he should be punished back in
the camp she liked prisoners to dresser
as Gennady gif RAL
which means gracious lady a kind of term
that would have been used to the
nobility in the 18th or 19th century to
go with this title also enjoyed
aristocracy pursuits early in the camp's
history a special writing Hall was built
Buchenwald report says it probably cost
two hundred and fifty thousand marks to
build this structure 30 prisoners were
injured or died in the construction of
that writing hall and it was mainly for
her own personal use and as a matter of
fact she took daily lessons there or
daily exercise rides at some points
accompanied by music so a band was there
to play for her creating an atmosphere a
little bit like a circus
this exorbitant lifestyle was paid for
by money the couple stole from prisoners
ill sir enjoyed dominating the inmates
as one of few women at an all-male camp
she would mock the dying prisoners with
her sexuality
she loved clothes she loved to wear
provocative clothing there's a lot of
accounts about her wearing short skirts
and tight blouses and in fact exhibiting
herself to the prisoners and the guards
she had ongoing quarrel with several of
the officers wives and i think became
increasingly an isolated figure among
them because she was so different from
the rest and so shall we she would be
lying in bed with the nightgown on are
very very flimsy clothing and asked the
male prisoners to come and serve her or
bring her food and other things and
obviously she want to show herself off
she went her body to be seen by these
prisoners so she liked to tease unlike
other German women he also didn't have
to do any housework in the Nazi ideal
home a housewife would spend a great
deal of her day on chores but if you
live in a really privileged household
and of course the SS was the aristocracy
in Nazi Germany
then you don't have these chores and so
all you can really do is amuse yourself
and different people amuse themselves in
different ways some may read listen to
music and others may go out and view
concentration camp prisoners being put
through their paces she was interested
in watching the punishments and and did
take part in that and often ordered
prisoners to be punished one time when a
work detail went by the cook villa she
ordered them punished because some of
the men had stared at her
ironically enough she wanted them to
stare at her and that was the whole
point of the provocative clothing but
any male prisoner who dared stare at the
commandant wife often had lashes or
punishment or perhaps even sent to the
cell block which often meant death
with time on her hands she looked to the
camp for entertainment new prisoners had
to spend their first night standing
naked in the square one of the famous
stories in the Buchenwald report is that
she and some officers wives went to
watch male prisoners were standing naked
at roll call and apparently took great
interest in what she saw temperatures
Kudo could go down to 20 centigrade
centigrades - lots of snow and even then
prisons would have to stay on the road
crawl plays sometimes for hours not only
to be counted but also to punish and
some really decided better to run into
the electric fence and to commit suicide
to survive under these conditions
while starving prisoners were committing
suicide the [ __ ] went short of nothing
at one point several prisoners went into
her cellar and they were supposed to
shovel coal and they happened to see
that there were rose bottles of wine and
champagne
there were hams there were other kinds
of foodstuffs that were extremely scarce
and I think the prisoners were shocked
when they discovered that yes or
sometimes used to look out through the
fence and seen sometimes have any people
pass and I thought to myself these
people are free there if they eat they
human beings and we were treated there
subhumans
as the Nazi war machine became bogged
down on the Eastern Front Ilsa was
treating her death camp like a
playground this was only the beginning
of Ilsa's terror
there was a far more gruesome side to
her that was about to be unleashed
it's the [ __ ] the camp Commandant's wife
was so feared by the prisoners that she
was known as the [ __ ] of Buchan but new
arrivals quickly learnt why she was
called a [ __ ]
when I book about half dead hardly
walking this has allowed us to go in for
a shower and then they disinfected us
were disinfectant powdered and then we
got some clothes on and I was putting
into it back with some Russian cruisers
of war oh well everybody was talking
about that and and some of the places
you know when they passed the square and
a big square that they were terrified
because she could lash out just at
anybody
this wasn't content the daily physical
and mental abuse she dished out to
prisoners her bullying took a much
darker twist dr. Wagner was one of the
camp doctors with whom Ilsa was friendly
she apparently had several friends among
the camp doctors and he needed to do a
dissertation this topic for his
dissertation was tattooing he was
supposed to find out if tattooing was an
indicator of criminal behavior and so
began the project of collecting tattoos
from the skin of prisoners it was the
wife of the Commandant it was Ilsa cook
who suggested the project and suggested
collecting the tattooed skin Ilsa used
this study to create one of the most
enduring and revolting works of the
Third Reich
she began using prisoners skin to make
lampshades and book covers she preferred
to choose her victims personally the
prisoners alleged that she would go to
places like the quarry on horseback and
watch the work often without shirts on
and that she would identify a prisoner
with an interesting tattoo write his
number down a day or two later that
prisoner would end up dead when we
arrived in bhagavad from Auschwitz we're
a bit worried and because we had that
people who came with numbers from
Auschwitz and they're armed
if she liked the number she used to send
them into the place I would cut out and
put it on the lampshades Hill sir
commandeered the camp workshops to
produce these Ottomans prisoners were
forced to decorate the skins of their
dead comrades apparently many of the
objects of human skin were given away as
gifts and there was a special workshop
an artist studio actually at Buchenwald
they bound books in the creative works
of art many of which are shipped to
other camps the book involved octaves
were indulging in other bizarre
experimentation the pathology lab had
several shrunken heads why they prepared
them is hard to imagine there's there's
something barbaric about that too but
apparently one of the camp doctors had
read about how South Sea Islanders did
this he decided to try it on a prisoner
these heads were said to have decorated
Ilsa's dining room where she entertained
guests and played with her children
for those who didn't witness these
McCobb objects their existence seems
hard to believe frankly if I didn't know
what else went on at the camp at the
same time I too might doubt it but
having seen examples of medical
experiments where they took organs out
of living prisoners where they had the
typhus block and they experimented with
typhus where they operated on
homosexuals to change their sexual
orientation where they burned prisoners
with phosphorous to see how to treat
phosphorus wounds where they shot
prisoners with poison bullets when all
of these things are going on at
Buchenwald camp as a matter of routine
business then the existence of these
skins in the pathology lab is not so
unusual the prisoners who weren't
victims of experiments faced a battle
for survival
on a Sunday we used to get two boiled
potatoes and jackets and I couldn't eat
the peas because used to bend me I was
very thin it's like a skeleton and as I
started peeling some Hungarian Jews came
in and held the hand underneath as I was
peeling and taking the peels in eating
it and I felt somehow I have never felt
so bad here I'm starving
and here the people taking my peels to
eat just to try to survive it was a very
pathetic situation in total contrast to
the emaciated prisoners the high living
[ __ ] stepped up their racketeering
they stole gold teeth and jewelry from
the prisoners and deposited the plunder
in secret Swiss bank accounts her
husband and she were trying to grab as
much as they could from their position
that means they also came into conflict
with rules of the SS itself I think one
of the key factors in the fall of the
koch's is that many of the camp guards
witnessed this corruption and resented
it to some extent that the folks were
using embezzled funds to enjoy a very
lavish lifestyle he bought a big car he
bought a boat bought a house on the lake
all this on a salary that was a modest
salary at least officially people began
to ask questions where is the money
coming from in 1942 the couple were
charged with corruption by an SS court
Carl took the blame and was sent to run
a polish extermination camp to be
sentenced at a later date Ilse [ __ ] was
acquitted of charges of misuse of funds
although her involvement I think your
involvement is clear by her being
included in the trial in the first place
that many SS officers believed that she
did take part in running of the camp and
certainly knew about many of the corrupt
elements of the Koch administration Ilsa
remained at the camp with her husband
out of the picture she sought male
allies she had affairs with several
high-ranking SS officers some of the men
worked outside the fence and the SS
barracks as a woman and they brought
back stole sources about her sexuality
and that she was going with all
different assessment and officers in
1944 Carl returned to bootcamp at to
face trial for corruption torture and
murder was nothing compared to ripping
off the right
on a cold morning in April 1945 Carl was
taken outside and shot in the yard of
his own camp as the Russians advanced
and the Third Reich began to crumble
Ilsa realized her days of indulgence
were over she attempted to melt back
into the German population and joined
thousands heading west woods looking for
safety from the Allies on the 10th of
April 1945 the US Army entered bootcamp
at the camp was built to house eight
that the population had swelled to ten
times that number
a hundred thousand people had died at
the camp in seven years while the
American liberators when they first
walked into the camp were shocked by
what they saw they were absolutely
stunned many of the prisoners were
walking skeletons they had been so
systematically starved that they had no
body fat left one of the French generals
told the Americans that he normally
weighed a hundred and seventy pounds and
he weighed at that time 85 pounds they
found corpses lying around beside the
crematorium for example and lots of
people stuck in these overcrowded
barracks in the rebel camp these are so
shocking for them that General Patton
ordered that the people from bimah more
than 1,000 mostly Nazi Party members
should be sent up here to see what
happened up here 1200 civilians walked
from the neighboring city of Weimar to
begin a forced tour of the camp
there are many smiling faces and
according to observers at first the
Germans act as though this was something
being staged for their benefit on a
table for all the gaze upon is a
lampshade made of human skin made at the
request of an SS officer's wife
the camera records the changes in facial
expressions as the vimar citizens leave
the parchment display but the liberated
prisoners hadn't forgotten Ilsa cook
she was finally caught and imprisoned in
1947 she went for trial whilst pregnant
by a fellow inmate
Ilse was charged with personally
selecting prisoners for murder
the gruesome selection of skins and
shrunken heads was shown to the court
she denied everything
claimed she had been framed by the
Allies
crowds gathered outside the courtroom
calling for her execution
she was sentenced to life imprisonment
by 1967 Ilsa had been in prison for 24
years during this time she'd shown no
remorse or sorrow crowd on the 1st of
September she noted some bedsheets
together and hanged herself she was 61
years old in a final letter she'd
written there is now no other way for me
death is the only deliverance and
history night continues after the break
as we learn how the decadent behavior of
Royals such as Henry the eighth's have
turned them into a laughingstock human
beings and we were treated as subhuman
as the Nazi war machine became bogged
down on the Eastern Front Ilsa was
treating her death camp like a
playground this was only the beginning
of Ilsa's terror there was a far more
gruesome side to her that was about to
be unleashed
is the [ __ ] the camp Commandant's wife
was so feared by the prisoners that she
was known as the [ __ ] of Buchan odd new
arrivals quickly learnt why she was cool
too [ __ ] when I walk about half dead
hardly walking this has allowed us to go
in for a shower and then they
disinfected us with a disinfectant
powdered and then we got some clothes on
and I was putting into it bad act with
some Russian cruisers at war well
everybody was talking about it and and
some of the places you know when they
passed the square and a big square that
they were terrified because she could
lash out just a terrible it this wasn't
content the daily physical and mental
abuse she dished out to prisoners a
bullying took a much darker twist dr.
Wagner was one of the camp doctors with
whom Ilsa was friendly she apparently
had several friends among the camp
doctors and he needed to do a
dissertation this topic for his
dissertation was tattooing he was
supposed to find out if tattooing was an
indicator of criminal behavior and so
began the project of collecting tattoos
from the skin of prisoners it was the
wife of the Commandant it was Ilsa Koch
who suggested the project and suggested
collecting the tattooed skin Ilsa used
this study to create one of the most
enduring and revolting works of the
third row she began using prisoners skin
to make lampshades
and book cups she preferred to choose
her victims personally
the prisoners alleged that she would go
to places like the quarry on horseback
and watch the work often without shirts
on and that she would identify a
prisoner with an interesting tattoo
write his number down a day or two later
that prisoner would end up dead when we
arrived in Boulevard from Auschwitz
we're a bit worried because we heard
that people who came with numbers from
Auschwitz and ROM she liked the number
she used to send them into the place I
would cut out and put it on the
lampshades you sir commandeered the camp
workshops to produce these Ottomans
prisoners were forced to decorate the
skins of their dead comrades
apparently many of the objects of human
skin were given away as gifts and there
was a special workshop an artist studio
actually at Buchenwald
they found books in the creative works
of art many of which are shipped to
other camps the book involved doctors
were indulging in other bizarre
experimentation the pathology lab had
several shrunken heads why they prepared
them is hard to imagine there's there's
something barbaric about that too but
apparently one of the camp doctors had
read about how South Sea Islanders did
this he decided to try it on a prisoner
these heads were said to have decorated
else's dining room where she entertained
guests and played with her children
so a band was there to play for her
creating an atmosphere a little bit like
a circus
this exorbitant lifestyle was paid for
by money the couple stole from prisoners
ill sir enjoyed dominating the inmates
as one of few women at an all-male camp
she would mock the dying prisoners with
her sexuality
she loved clothes she loved to wear
provocative clothing there's a lot of
accounts about her wearing short skirts
and tight blouses in effect exhibiting
herself to the prisoners and the guards
she had ongoing quarrel with several of
the officers lives and I think became
increasingly an isolated figure among
them because she was so different from
the rest and so showy
she would be lying in bed with the
nightgown on are very very flimsy
clothing and asked the male prisoners to
come and serve her or bring her food and
other things and obviously she wanted to
show herself off she went her by to be
seen by these prisoners so she liked to
tease unlike other German women he also
didn't have to do any housework in the
Nazi ideal home a housewife would spend
a great deal of her day on chores but if
you live in a really privileged
household and of course the SS was the
aristocracy in Nazi Germany then you
don't have these chores and so all you
can really do is amuse yourself and
different people amuse themselves in
different ways some may read listen to
music and others may go out and view
concentration camp prisoners being
cooked through their paces she was
interested in watching the punishments
and and did take part in that and often
ordered prisoners to be punished one
time when a work detail went by the cook
villa she ordered them punished because
some of the men had stared at her
ironically enough she wanted the dis
tear at her and that was the whole point
of the provocative clothing but any male
prisoner who dared stare at the
commandant wife often had lashes or
punishment or perhaps even sent to the
cellblock which often meant death
with time on her hands she looked to the
camp for entertainment new prisoners had
to spend their first night standing
naked in the square one of the famous
stories in the book and wild report is
that she and some officers wives went to
watch male prisoners were standing naked
at roll call and apparently took great
interest in what she saw temperature
sciutto could go down to 20 centigrade
centigrades
- lots of snow and even then prisons
would have to stay on the roll crawl
place sometimes for hours not only to be
counted but also to punish and some
really decided better to run into the
electric fence and to commit suicide to
survive under these conditions
while starving prisoners were committing
suicide the [ __ ] went short of nothing
at one point several prisoners went into
her cellar and they were supposed to
shovel coal and they happened to see
that there were rows of bottles of wine
and champagne
there were hams there were other kinds
of foodstuffs that were extremely scarce
and I think the prisoners were shocked
when they discovered that yes or
sometimes used to look out through the
fence and seen sometimes so many people
pass and I thought to myself these
people are free that if they eat they
nice on the outskirts of Vimal
the camp held up to 10,000 male
prisoners they were a mixture of Jews
Russians Eastern Europeans and political
opponents the weak were killed and the
healthy worked to death
the camp was for hard labor not
extermination unlike a schvitz gas
chambers weren't needed life expectancy
was three months as the wife of the
commandant bill sir led a life of luxury
and privilege with her two children all
around her brutality and degradation
thrived although she had no official
rank in the camp she enjoyed the power
that came with her position she took it
on herself to mingle in the camp's
running and Affairs and it was that
process that gave her the name nickname
among the prisoners of command oohs the
the woman commander the prisoners were
ruled by fear life was worthless and
murder a daily occurrence
I think Ilse [ __ ] was drawn into that I
think along with her husband she began
to believe that they could punish
Germany's enemies in any form
however humiliating however degrading it
might be in fact the more humiliating
the better imagine a system where the
rule of law does not prevail where in
concentration camps there are no laws
other than the laws which are the whim
of the people running the place terrify
but perhaps for the people actually
running the place exhilarating
as the prisoners lived in fear of their
lives the COS lived in luxury they built
their dream home just outside the
perimeter fence
the officers lived on a street just
outside a camp they called officers row
rather comfortable existence with a row
of what were called villas the biggest
Villa was the cook Villa where Ilsa
lived during this whole time so for her
it was something very special and
extraordinary to live in a big house
with even servants that meant prisoners
from the camp doing everything for her
as the common dance wife he also began
to revel in the power she held over her
prisoner slaves
while some prisons for example would
park in the garden or even in her
kitchen and the reports say that it was
always unclear what would happen the
next moment whether she would feel fine
and everything is done well from her
perspective or whether she would say the
person didn't fulfill his duties as his
life to her household and then she could
easily say he should be punished back in
the camp she liked prisoners to dresser
as Gennady gif Rao
which means gracious lady a kind of term
that would have been used to the
nobility in the 18th or 19th century to
go with this title also enjoyed
aristocratic pursuits early in the
camp's history a special writing Hall
was built Buchenwald report says it
probably cost two hundred and fifty
thousand marks to build this structure
thirty prisoners were injured or died in
the construction of that writing Hall it
was mainly for her own personal use and
as a matter of fact she took daily
lessons there or a daily exercise rides
at some points accompanied by music
at the end of World War 2 1200 citizens
from the city of Vemma were rounded up
and ordered into the liberated
Buchenwald concentration camp the US
Army wanted them to witness a horrifying
collection of artifacts found among
thousands of dying prison
there are two heads which have been
shrunk to one fit their normal size
these and other exhibits of Nazi origin
are shown to the townspeople on a table
for all the gaze upon is a lampshade
made of human skin made at the request
of an SS officers way that officer's
wife was encircled her husband was the
commander of Pokemon together they
presided over the camp in which a
hundred thousand people
she would personally select prisoners
sentence them to death and force fellow
inmates to decorate the skins for her
amusement
she was even worse than some of their
says she's - she was a sadist used to
enjoy it she was known as the [ __ ] of
Bougainville
born in rural Saxony in 1906 Insur Cola
was the daughter of a label little is
known of her modest upbringing but by
the age of 15 she was working at a
cigarette factory she was not terribly
well educated by the standards at the
time she was lucky to receive the job at
the tobacco company as a clerk typist
and that's what she was doing in 1932
about the time that Hitler begins his
rise to power the young Elsa was
instantly attracted to the hardline
politics of the far-right
she joined the party in April 1932 and
that's a fairly early date a lot of
people joined the party in the late 30s
ever ambitious Elsa became a Nazi
secretary she was singled out by him
ahead of the SS for marriage to a friend
of hers Karl cough
[ __ ] was widely known for his sadistic
tendencies as commander of the saxon
housing concentration he was notorious
for his methods of torture himmler liked
coke and viewed him as a protege viewed
him in many ways as a model
concentration camp commander often held
him up to other commanders as the one to
emulate they were the perfect nazi
couple
one evening in 1936 the couple married
in a grove of oak trees Elsa was 30 Carl
10 years old his new bride didn't mind
Carl's reputation as a cruel
disciplinarian she believed in her
husband and was proud to have risen from
the working-classes
to the Nazi elite
in 1937 Carl was appointed commandant of
a new concentration camp an SS training
center at Brooklyn but she and her
husband Karl Koch arrived when the camp
opened in July 1937 as the brand new
commander of a brand new Kia
Buchan vault was one of the first and
largest incarceration facilities in nazi
germany it was a hostile isolated for
those who didn't witness these macabre
objects their existence seems hard to
believe frankly if I didn't know what
else went on at the camp at the same
time I too might doubt it
but having seen examples of medical
experiments where they took organs out
of living prisoners where they had the
typhus block and they experimented with
typhus where they operated on
homosexuals to change their sexual
orientation or they burned prisoners
with phosphorus to see how to treat
phosphorus wounds where they shot
prisoners with poison bullets when all
of these things are going on at
Buchenwald camp as a matter of routine
business then the existence of these
skins in the pathology lab is not so
unusual the prisoners who weren't
victims of experiments faced a battle
for survival
on a Sunday we used to get two boiled
potatoes and jackets and I couldn't eat
the peels because used to burn me I was
very thin just like a skeleton and as I
started peeling some Hungarian Jews came
in and held their hand underneath as I
was bathing and taking the peels and
eating it and I felt somehow I have
never felt so bad here I'm starving and
here the people taking my peels to eat
just to try to survive it was a very
pathetic situation in total contrast to
the emaciated prisoners the high living
[ __ ] stepped up their racketeering
they stole gold teeth and jewelry from
the prisoners and deposited the plunder
in secret Swiss bank accounts her
husband and she were trying to grab as
much as they could from their position
that means they also came into conflict
with rules of the SS itself I think one
of the key factors in the fall of the
koch's is that many of the camp guards
witnessed this corruption and resented
it to some extent that the folks were
using embezzled funds to enjoy a very
lavish lifestyle he bought a big car he
bought a boat bought a house on the lake
all this on a salary that was a modest
salary at least officially people began
to ask questions where is the money
coming from
in 1942 the couple were charged with
corruption by an SS court
Carl took the blame and was sent to run
a polish extermination camp to be
sentenced at a later date Ilse cook was
acquitted of charges of misuse of funds
although her involvement I think your
involvement is clear by her being
included in the trial in the first place
that many SS officers believe that she
did take part in running of the camp and
certainly knew about many of the corrupt
elements of the Koch administration Ilsa
remained at the camp with her husband
out of the picture she sought male
allies she had affairs with several
high-ranking SS officers some of the men
worked outside the fence and the SS
barracks as a woman and they brought
back stone soldiers about her sexuality
and that she was going with all
different assessment and officers in
1944 Carl returned to bootcamp at to
face trial for corruption torture and
murder was nothing compared to ripping
off the right
on a
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