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For seven weeks, concentration-camp survivors had paraded to the witness stand at Augsburg to accuse Ilse Koch, the "Bitch of Buchenwald," of brutalities. "Lies, all lies," screamed the red-haired widow of the camp's wartime Nazi commander. She had fits of hysteria, smashed up her cell, had...
Witness Richard Gryc testified that Ilse told another prisoner. "What a lovely tattoo you have." Shortly after, the prisoner was poisoned.
Witness Ludwig Tobias said Ilse kicked out 13 of his teeth. Six witnesses testified that Ilse rode her horse through a group of prisoners, lashed them with her whip.
Witness Wilhelm Gellinick said he heard Ilse tell her husband: "My little pigeon, I think it is time for that old man [in a working party] to grovel a bit." The old man, said Gellinick, was made to roll up & down a hill several times, later died as a result...
Last week Ilse's hysterics and absence from the courtroom did not delay her trial. The procession of witnesses went on, was expected to continue at least another four weeks. Since West Germany has abolished the death penalty, the prosecution hopes to put Ilse behind bars for life.