The Mammoth Book of Women Who Kill by Richard Glyn Jones

Author:Richard Glyn Jones [Jones, Richard Glyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, General
ISBN: 9781780333670
Google: PMrABAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2011-09-01T23:31:28.491184+00:00

26

ILSE KOCH

“Merely a Housewife”

Born and bred in Dresden, Germany, Ilse Koch began working in a cigarette factory at age fifteen, giving half her wages to her impoverished family. Two years later she went to work in a bookshop. A voluptuous blue-eyed blonde, by then, she was enthralled by Hitler’s storm troopers and had joined the Nazi Youth Party. The bookstore was an official branch of that party and the elderly owner pandered to the racist tastes of the Nazis. He told the naive Ilse that he would introduce her to classic literature but instead gave her obscene books to read to heighten her passions for the young storm troopers who visited the store to purchase Hitler’s Mein Kampf and other party-approved dogma. (This tactic, of course, was in keeping with Hitler’s program in the mid-1930s to promote youthful marriages, which in turn would produce more babies for the Third Reich.)

Ilse had many affairs with SS men but was singled out by Heinrich Himmler, the dreaded leader of the SS and Gestapo, for marriage to his then top aide, Karl Koch. Himmler entered the bookstore with Koch in 1937, spotted the oversexed Ilse, and ordered Koch to mate with her. Himmler himself arranged for their marriage later that year.

A thick-set, bullet-headed man with the manners and morals of a pig, Koch assumed command of the new Buchenwald concentration camp outside Weimar. After his wedding, he took his youthful bride to a magnificent villa near the camp and promptly forgot about her—except to produce two children through their union in compliance with party dictates. Koch then began indulging in orgies with women at Weimar, staggering “sex feasts” costing fortunes. Ilse was left to her own diversions.

At first she spent her time riding to the hounds in Brandenburg. Then she flirted with Koch’s junior officers, finally having affairs with a half dozen at a time, staging her own orgies where she would drink with several SS officers until taking them all into her bed. Her appetite for sex was insatiable, and her desire for perversion and sadistic acts obsessive. The prisoners at Buchenwald became her playthings.

Not until the war was in full progress did Ilse give vent to her incredible depravities. Ilse also took particular delight in sunbathing naked at her villa, where potential SS lovers would ogle her, and close to the camp, where she could tantalize the prisoners. She would greet all incoming trucks and trains standing semi-nude next to lines of male prisoners, mostly Jews by then, wiggling her hips, fondling her large breasts, and making lewd remarks. If one prisoner dared look up at her, he was beaten senseless. On one such occasion, guards noticed three prisoners glance up from the ground to stare at the “Bitch of Buchenwald.” Two were beaten to death on the spot with clubs, the other was pushed face first to the ground, a guard standing on his neck grinding the man’s face into the mud until he suffocated to death. Smirking, Ilse filled out a report that these men had been executed for giving her lascivious looks.

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