Ilse Koch

Buchenwald The Holocaust is the period of time between 1933 and 1945 when the Nazis persecuted and executed millions of Jews and other people seen as enemies of the state. The Holocaust was one of the most horrific slaughters of human life in the Second World War. Most of loss of life during the Holocaust took place in concentration camps. Concentration camps served different purposes; some camps were slave labor camps, some were transit camps, and others served as death camps. Even though there…

Ilse Koch was, the wife of Karl Otto Koch, sent to trial for having people killed to make lamp shades out of their skin. Hermann Pister was a SS guard who was commandant from 1942-1945. He ran away before the liberation, but was caught at a camp near Munich. As a consequence, he was tried, proven guilty and had a death sentence. Karl Otto Koch was a war criminal who mistreated prisoners to a severe degree. After going to…

Some of the first guilty females were those that donated to Hitler and helped him become who he was. Author Paul Roland gives us several examples of the women that influenced Hitler early on. The very first woman you might say was Hitler’s mother. Klara lost many children before having Hitler, so she clung to little Adolf when he survived. Hitler was a definite “momma’s boy” and his mother was said to be the most important woman in his life, which is why Hitler might have had so much trouble…

survivor of Auschwitz. He experienced many hardships of the concentration camps, and was a witness to the atrocities committed by Holocaust criminals. Franz Stangl, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, were sentenced to death in the War Crimes Trial, but Ilse Koch, Gustav Wagner, and Heinrich Himmler seemed to have escaped justice forever. During the Holocaust, many infamous war criminals existed, and a mass number of criminals were brought to justice in the War Crimes…

in a high ranked working position; therefore they would not want to face the risk of losing it. Despite the large numbers of female office workers, majority were still confined to the house, so a secretary was considered to be of high status. One, Ilse Strwue, claimed that she did nothing because she felt that they did not try to fight against it. On a regular basis, she was exposed to evidence of the mass-killings on a regular basis, and grew accustomed to it. She, like many others, was forced…

Serial killers and those that kill in mass numbers are one of the most fascinating topics not only for scholars, law enforcement, psychologist, and sociologist, but also to the average, everyday person such as myself. All of us have in common the fascination with the topic because of the disbelief an individual such as this resides among us. We are fascinated not only because of their minds but because they feed into our fears about danger, death and what lurks in the night, around the corner,…

National efforts after WWI to mobilize more civilians in war effort. Country’s had different methods but many included elements of gender, race, and ethnicity. Civilians are attempted to be controlled by a government using fear or a scape goat which single out a single or group relating to gender, race, or ethnicity. In the US social and cultural mobilization by the government was spurred by using fear and the astrocytes Germany committed in Belgium. The American mainland Homefront was never a…