This article includes explanations of violent crimes committed by Ed Gein and Ilse Koch during the Second World War. Readers can find the nature of these disturbing crimes.
Ilse Koch is a prominent figure in Monster: the story of Ed GeinWhich led a lot to wonder who she was. While Monster The history of season 3 is riddled with historical inaccuracies and dramatization, a large part of the base is in the history of the real world. However, the episodes include several calendars and rotate to different historical and cultural figures, which can make everything of everything difficult.
Actress Vicky Crieps plays Ilse Koch Monster The distribution of season 3, contributing to the series with a performance of one of the most vile human beings of the 20th century. The series explains how Ed Gein was influenced by Ilse Koch, but he does not immerse himself in specific details, and such a serious subject deserves in -depth research.
Ilse Koch was a Nazi war criminal known as “Buchenwald witch”
Ilse Koch was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp. As mentioned in the show, Koch herself was not a soldier, and she also had no technical affiliation with the Nazi party, but she managed to become one of the most sadly famous and terrifying figures associated with the third Reich.
Ilse Koch stands out as a war criminal who went far beyond the general cruelty of the Second World War. She was accused of going so far as to have prisoners execute and mutilate, their skin being cut for household items, with an example being a lampshade.
This specific incident of intolerable cruelty cannot be completely proven, but it was undoubtedly responsible for the use of the work of slaves and prisoners personally attacked. She also ordered the SS units to beat the prisoners, with a confirmed incident of one of these blows leading to the death of a prisoner.
How Ilse Koch’s crimes inspired Ed Gein
Although the stories of Ilse Koch crimes were not confirmed in his trial, the American media and the general population continued to disseminate history. Among the many violent stories that Ed Gein has read in magazines was those of the horrible crimes of Koch. Later, he began to dig up graves and use human skin for his own ends.
What happened to Ilse Koch
Before the end of the Second World War, the SS began its own investigation into Buchenwald due to allegations of corruption and embezzlement of Karl-Ootto Koch. In August 1943, Karl and Ilse were arrested and tried. Karl was sentenced to death, while he was acquitted accusations in 1944. She was then arrested later by the American authorities.
Ilse Koch was again tried for war crimes in Buchenwald, and was found guilty in 1947. Due to his pregnancy, Koch avoided a death sentence and was placed in prison. She almost reduced her sentence to a given moment before she was tried again, finally dying of suicide in 1967. Monster: Ed Gein History barely scratches the surface of his life.
