Irma Grese & The SS Girls From Hell: The Secret Stories of Their Holocaust & Auschwitz Atrocities Revealed (World War 2, World War II, WW2, WWII, Holocaust, Auschwitz, Irma Grese) by Robert Jenkins

Author:Robert Jenkins [Jenkins, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Success First Publishing
Published: 2015-05-27T07:00:00+00:00

Life At Buchenwald

She and her husband lived in luxury, occupying the biggest house on 'Officer's Row', the street outside the camp where all the officers lived. They used prisoners from the camp as servants in their home, and Ilse is said to have enjoyed being in charge of them. She made them refer to her as 'Gracious Lady', a term used to address German nobility in previous centuries, and would sometimes order them to be punished back in the camp if they did not perform up to her strict standards.

Ilse allegedly flaunted her sexuality in front of the male inmates by wearing provocative clothing, and is said to have had inmates punished for staring at her. This lewd behavior also is said to have made her unpopular with the other officers' wives, who didn't like how she flaunted herself in front of their husbands. She was known for her promiscuity throughout the camp, with rumors that her husband did not object because he was a homosexual. Prison records from Buchenwald show that Koch had been treated for syphilis. She was even said to have had affairs with some of the inmates, as well as Hermann Florstedt, the Deputy Commandant.

There are several reports of Ilse's exploits as a torturer and murderer, all vague and none corroborated, so I will not list them here. It is sufficient to mention that the witnesses seemed to hate this woman, and all shared knowledge of her brutality against other inmates, but few actually said they witnessed any of it personally, except for one incident that tells of how Ilse selected an inmate with a nice tattoo, and the inmate disappeared the next day. The outlandish claims made by the prisoners have found no evidence despite many attempts to do so. It is possible that Ilse encouraged the proliferation of these claims, which elevated her to an almost mythically sadistic status. Ilse was also accused of helping her husband gas prisoners with cyanide to prepare perfectly preserved cadavers for medical experiments. While this did happen and Kramer’s involvement in this was established beyond doubt, Dr Hirt, the person in charge of these experiments escaped and was not found again. Ilse’s involvement in these acts were never firmly established beyond hearsay.

The Koch's had plenty of money during their time at Buchenwald. They paid for all the materials and built an indoor sport complex in 1940, using inmate labor. They bought an expensive car, a boat and even a beach house when most of their colleagues were struggling to survive on the modest salary of an SS officer. Not only did they use inmates to complete the jobs, they also used illegal funds gathered from the confiscation of the jewellery of the Jewish prisoners, which was officially supposed to be used for the war effort.

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