
Ilse Koch
ActingSeptember 22, 1906-September 1, 1967
Birth Place
Dresden, Germany
Biography
Ilse Koch, born Margarete Ilse Köhler was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald (1937–1941) and Majdanek (1941–1943). In 1947, she became one of the first prominent Nazis tried by the U.S. military.