• Karl-Otto Koch (German: [kɔx]; 2 August 1897 – 5 April 1945) was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant...
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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...
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  • Karl Koch may refer to: Carl Koch (director) (1892–1963), also spelled Karl Koch, German film director, writer Karl Koch (botanist) (1809–1879), German...
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    was displayed by Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch and his wife Ilse Koch, said to be with other human skin artifacts. Despite myths...
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    Retrieved 2011-02-12. Whitlock, Flint (2017). "Karl Otto Koch. German Nazi commandant". Britannica.com. Karl Otto Koch: German commandant of several Nazi concentration...
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  • Morgen's investigations began with Karl-Otto Koch, the commandant of Buchenwald and Majdanek, Koch's wife Ilse Koch, sadistic SS NCO Martin Sommer, and...
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    from 9 October 1939 to 21 December 1941. On 1 January 1942 he replaced Karl Otto Koch as commandant of Buchenwald. The prisoners were ordered evacuated from...
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  • Karl-Otto Koch (1897 – 1945), German SS commander Karl Otto Lagerfeld, birthname of Karl Lagerfeld (1933 – 2019), German fashion designer Karl Otto Lange...
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  • Florstedt was arrested in 1943 during a corruption investigation into Karl-Otto Koch for stealing the valuables of Holocaust victims at Majdanek. Florstedt...
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    commandant was SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl-Otto Koch, who ran the camp from 1 August 1937 to July 1941. His second wife, Ilse Koch, became notorious as Die Hexe...
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    practice among the top echelon.[citation needed] Two Majdanek commandants, Karl-Otto Koch and Hermann Florstedt, were tried by the SS for it in April 1945. SS-Sturmbannführer...
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    Karl Werner Lothar Koch (July 22, 1965 – c. May 23, 1989) was a German hacker in the 1980s, who called himself "hagbard", after Hagbard Celine. He was...
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  • Karen Koch, American ice hockey goaltender Karl Koch (disambiguation), several people, including: Karl Koch (botanist), German botanist Karl-Otto Koch, German...
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  • football player Karl Kneidinger (1882–1952), Austrian actor Karl-Otto Koch (1897–1945), German Nazi commandant of concentration camps Karl Kraus (writer)...
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    the Camp Commandant of Buchenwald, SS-Standartenführer Karl-Otto Koch, after it was discovered Koch had disgraced both himself and the SS. Military Governor...
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    charged with wholesale stealing from the Third Reich to become rich. Karl-Otto Koch (serving at Majdanek from July 1941 till August 24, 1942) was executed...
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    known as the Final Solution. On the initiative of one of his subordinates, Karl Fritzsch, Höss introduced the pesticide Zyklon B to be used in gas chambers...
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  • des SS-Personals im KZ nennt Wolfgang Sofsky Mehrliniensystem. Friedrich Karl Kaul, Joachim Noak (ed.): Angeklagter Nr. 6: Eine Auschwitzdokumentation...
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  • was deputy to commandant Karl-Otto Koch. In that role, he was given a largely free hand to indulge his cruel side, with Koch placing no restrictions on...
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  • based on Ilse Koch,[citation needed] notoriously known as "the Bitch of Buchenwald". The wife of the camp's commandant Karl Otto Koch, she reportedly...
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  • assumed that he liquidated them in the hospital.” Ilse Koch, wife of the camp commandant Karl Otto Koch, was probably inspired by this work to collect objects...
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    service in Columbia early in their careers. Notable amongst these was Karl Otto Koch, who was appointed commandant in 1935. At lower levels camp guards included...
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    Reichskommissariat Ukraine from 1941 to 1944, he was an SA-Obergruppenführer. Karl Otto Koch – Concentration camp commandant at Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941, and...
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    commandant of the women's camp at Lichtenburg. In July 1937 he succeeded Karl Otto Koch as commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was soon being...
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    imprisonment in Bautzen or Waldheim. Michael Lippert, July 1936 – October 1936 Karl-Otto Koch, October 1936 – July 1937 Hans Helwig, July 1937 – January 1938 Hermann...
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  • Among the people he investigated was Karl Otto Koch, the commandant of Buchenwald and Majdanek, and husband of Ilse Koch — as well as Buchenwald's concentration...
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    SS-TV's most infamous commandants including Rudolf Höß, Franz Ziereis, Karl Otto Koch, Max Kögel, and Amon Göth. In the last days of World War II, a special...
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  • Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946), field marshal, head of the OKW (1939–1945) Karl-Otto Koch (1897–1945), German first commandant of the Buchenwald concentration...
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    July 1934 – February 1935: Edgar Entsberger February 1935 – April 1935 Karl Otto Koch April 1935 – October 1936 Heinrich Remmert November 1936 – August 1937...
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    them.: 194  His first assignment came when he was appointed deputy to Karl Otto Koch, commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp and already known to Hüttig...
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