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Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch

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Sep 30, 2026

SarahHOST
29:46
and i just so i always appreciate that in film because it's exactly how like we as humans i think function but anyway i thought rebecca was great i've loved her in a lot of stuff that she's been in so she's definitely an actress
CassieHOST
29:59
and one other thing about vicky crapes is she was actually in the ed gein episode Oh, she was? She played like a Nazi Ilse Koch or something.
CassieHOST
30:10
I don't know how to pronounce the last name, so I apologize.
CassieHOST
30:12
But she was, one, she looked amazing in that role.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
23:01
He read medical textbooks.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
23:03
And he developed a particular interest in Ilse Koch.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
23:06
who worked at one of the Nazi concentration camps and collected patches of skin of the prisoners who were detained there.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
23:15
And I think all of this was fueling a very active imagination.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:05
In 1937, Hackmann was transferred to the newly established Buchenwald concentration camp.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:10
The camp's commandant was Carl Otto Koch, and his wife Ilse, who belonged to the camp personnel, was nicknamed for her cruelty towards the prisoners as the Beast of Buchenwald.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:22
Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established within German borders.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:27
Prisoners lived in the Buchenwald main camp, which was surrounded by an electrified barbed wire fence, watchtowers, and a chain of sentries outfitted with automatic machine guns.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
21:49
It was quite a solitary pursuit, so that's not particularly surprising, but after the death of his mother and his brother, he started to read an awful lot more, and his tastes in literature really did span quite a wide spectrum.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:03
He read pornographic magazines, he read medical textbooks, and he developed a particular interest in Ilse Koch, who worked at one of the Nazi concentration camps, collected patches of skin of the prisoners who were detained there.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:19
And I think all of this was fueling a very active imagination.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:25
So he's developing these obsessions and these interests, and he's quite skilled as a farmhand at this point in time.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:08
But after the death of his mother and his brother, he started to read an awful lot more, and his tastes in, in literature really did span quite a, a wide spectrum.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:18
He read pornographic magazines, um, he read medical textbooks, and he developed a particular interest in Ilse Koch, who worked at one of the, the Nazi concentration camps and collected patches of skin of the prisoners who were detained there.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:35
And I think all of this was, was fueling a, a very active imagination.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:40
So he's developing these obsessions and these interests, and he's quite skilled as a farmhand at this point in time.
speaker_5HOST
21:09
The sources pair two figures here that exemplify this perfectly.
speaker_5HOST
21:13
Ingrid Olderock in Chile and Ilse Koch in Nazi Germany.
speaker_5HOST
21:18
Olderock was a major in the Karabineros and an intelligence agent under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in the 1970s.
speaker_5HOST
21:25
She was dubbed the dog woman.

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