Word: buchenwalde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frau Koch, widow of a former Buchenwald commandant, is known as the Bitch of Buchenwald. At her trial she was convicted of having prisoners beaten to death, of using their skins as lampshades and other ornaments, and of taking part in the common design of cruelty in the camp. The most damaging testimony was presented by her own defense witnesses...
...General Diffuseness." Deeply distressed was the congress' chairman, Amsterdam's shaggy-haired Hugo Pos. After two years in Buchenwald he had dropped his absent-minded-professor manner and set forth on a crusade for "scientific" philosophy which he thought would give the world a new, better life. "The discussions," Pos sighed last week, "revealed the general diffuseness of postwar thinking...
Born. To Ilse Koehler Koch, 41, convicted "Bitch of Buchenwald" who collected lampshades made of tattooed human skin, and (putatively) one Fritz Schaefer, a fellow war criminal who tunneled into her cell last winter: a male bastard; in Landsberg (Germany) City Hospital, under guard. Name: Uwe Koehler. Weight...
Along with Use Koch, 30 Munich co-defendants were sentenced for the murders of some of Buchenwald's 53,000 slain political prisoners. Twenty-two will hang; others got terms ranging from ten years to life...
Most of the Nazis heard their fates without show of emotion, clicked their heels and walked out of the courtroom. A repentant exception was Jewish Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a naturalized U.S. citizen and a notorious Buchenwald "trusty." He pleaded: "You have placed the mark of Cain on my forehead. Any physician who committed the crimes I am charged with deserves to be killed-must be killed. Apply to me the highest therapy that is in your hands." The judges prescribed life imprisonment...