Many people like to collect collections, and it makes sense to keep what they find interesting. But there was a female officer during World War II who collected something creepy.
This woman, named Ils Koch, was born in a small town in Germany, was a popular girl in elementary school, a polite and intelligent girl in the eyes of teachers and classmates, went to accounting school at the age of fifteen, and found a good job after graduation and became a bookkeeper. It was such a well-behaved girl who chose to join the Nazi Party in 1932 and walked with an officer named Carl Koch, and later became a "witch" and "beast" in the eyes of the prisoners in the concentration camp.
Her husband, Koch, became the first caretaker of the Nassa party concentration camp at that time, and Illes, influenced by her husband, also entered the camp and took on the supervision work, becoming the female chief of the camp. We need not dwell too much on the horrors of the camps; according to later statistics, a total of 250,000 people were imprisoned in this evil place, and these working people were labeled "inferior nations" and "enemies" by them. Later, through the rescue, more than 50,000 people were still harmed, of which Jews accounted for one-fifth.
In the usual management, Koch and the two of them became the nightmare of these people, and learned from the survivors that Ils was a crazy demon. She liked to ride horses in the place where they were held, and she thought of herself as a queen, and when she saw anyone who was unpleasant, she would take out her horse whip and beat the so-called "prisoners". If anyone with a little bolder dared to look at her, he would be pulled out and shot. Under this kind of pressure and persecution, the people in the concentration camp did not dare or want to see this woman with her trademark long red hair, and everyone secretly called her "bitch" behind her back.
It's not just that that, she also has a scary collector's hobby of collecting human skins with beautiful tattoos. According to the recollections of many survivors of the war, this terrible woman took out all the tattooed people and asked them to expose the tattoos, she chose the tattoos she liked as she chose the ornaments she liked, and these unfortunate people could only leave their tattoos and be made into specimens for Ils to admire. Finally, at the end of the war in 1945, the arrival of the AMERICAN army completely rescued these people living in the waters, and Koch was executed for killing innocents and other crimes, and the escaped Ils was successfully captured.
Later, the U.S. military made ills' collection public to the world, including two "dry heads", a lampshade made of human skin, and many tattooed human skin specimens. The relevant experts in the United States confirmed the authenticity of the specimen, only the lampshade did not confirm which animal's skin, but in the trial, it was confirmed by multiple witnesses. One of the political prisoners, Austria, also said that Iller had sent someone to take the tattooed human skin lampshade, and the camp doctor's secretary also said that he had seen the support of the lamp made of feet and tibia, which was composed of skin, and could even see the tattoos she liked in the light. There is enough physical evidence to confirm Ils's terrible collecting hobby.
But having committed so many crimes, Ils escaped the death penalty because he was pregnant. At that time, the only people who could approach Ills were the Americans who imprisoned her, which was also a shame for the US military. Ils was later sentenced to life in prison and spent his entire life in prison. And she has two sons in her life, the first is the son of her perverted husband, this son has no way to accept these crimes committed by his parents, and chooses to end his life, the second son is much luckier, this child born in prison was adopted by outsiders after birth, unaware of his parents' affairs, but can live his life with peace of mind. Ils Koch's story was later adapted into the comic strip Lampshade of Thorny Flowers.
War is a sad thing, not to mention how many people have lost their lives, families and homes because of the war, the war has made many people lose their humanity, become cold and cruel, which has led to so many terrible things happening, so when we understand history, we must know how to cherish the happy life now.