Bitch Of Buchenwald

Described as "the most famous of all Germans accused of having committed atrocities during the war" by the Jewish Virtual Library, Ilse Koch has won a diabolic kind of immortality as the lady with the lamp made of human skin. Yes she was never convicted of having owned any such possession, although there was still enough against her for her to be jailed for life, released, and then jailed for life again. This ground breaking program puts her career in the context of the Germany of the Nazi era, the control of the SS to which she belonged, and the social life that as the wife of a concentration camp commander she was to grow accustomed. This life, financed mainly through embezzlement, and her criminal activities saw her brought before three courts, that of the SS, the American Military Tribunal, and finally the German High court.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 19 Januari, 2010