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Ilse Koch

1906 - 1967

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Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald". Because of the egregiousness of her alleged actions, including that she had selected Jewish prisoners for death in order to fashion lampshades and other items from their skins, her 1947 U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ilse Koch is the 22nd most popular extremist (down from 20th in 2019), the 399th most popular biography from Germany (down from 319th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Extremist.

Ilse Koch was a German woman who was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald. She was known for her love of collecting the tattoos from prisoners.

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Among extremists, Ilse Koch ranks 22 out of 283. Before her are Leon Czolgosz, Golden State Killer, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ramón Mercader, and Patrizia Reggiani. After her are Andrei Chikatilo, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Ted Kaczynski, John Wayne Gacy, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Ed Gein.

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Among people born in 1906, Ilse Koch ranks 32. Before her are Roberto Rossellini, Hans Bethe, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Sayyid Qutb, Giuseppe Farina, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. After her are Sergei Korolev, Hassan al-Banna, Hermann Fegelein, Léon Degrelle, Ed Gein, and Josef Kramer. Among people deceased in 1967, Ilse Koch ranks 19. Before her are Vladimir Komarov, Edward Hopper, Zoltán Kodály, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Clement Attlee, and Claude Rains. After her are André Maurois, Jack Ruby, Richard Kuhn, Ilya Ehrenburg, Gordon Allport, and Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ilse Koch ranks 399 out of 7,253. Before her are Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Jürgen Klopp (1967), Helmuth Weidling (1891), and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864). After her are Rupert, King of Germany (1352), Max Bruch (1838), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Einhard (770), Ernst Thälmann (1886), and Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Ilse Koch ranks 2. Before her are Frederick Trump (1869). After her are Ulrike Meinhof (1934), Otto Ohlendorf (1907), Andreas Baader (1943), Peter Kürten (1883), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Fritz Honka (1935), Willi Herold (1925), and Johann Rattenhuber (1897).

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