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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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