Ilse Koch's story is being resurfaced for Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story. In the series, Vicky Krieps plays Ilse, who was Nazi commander Karl-Otto Koch's wife and was known as the "Witch of Buchenwald." Karl-Otto was the head of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where more than 50,000 people were killed during World War II, according to the Buchenwald Memorial. After the war ended, Ilse was arrested for war crimes and tried in both the American and West German courts. During her trials, she was accused of using the skin of murdered prisoners to make various...
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