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During the Nazi Germany period of World War II, not only men were crazy, women were also crazy, and some women were even more crazy than imaginable. For example, Ils Koch, known as the "first female demon of the Nazis", is a mad figure. Ils Koch's special collecting habits made male prisoners tremble even more.
Pictured: Ils Koch
Born in 1906 in Dresden to a family of workshop owners, Ils Koch was lively and naïve as a teenager with a big grin and a good relationship. At the age of 15, Iller entered accounting school and became a bookkeeper after graduation. In 1932, Iller joined the Nazi Party and became acquainted with Karl Koch, and the two soon consummated their marriage.
A person's personality is too much affected by the surrounding environment, Ils was originally a very easy person to get along with, since marrying Carl Koch, in the rapid development of the Nazis, as if he had changed as a person, no longer the simple and cute little Ils.
In 1936, Iller served as a guard at Buchenwald, one of Germany's three major concentration camps, and her husband, Karl Koch, was the camp's first commander. Karl Koch had long been a notorious figure among the Nazis, but no one expected that since the couple had both arrived at buchenwald concentration camp, Ils had become even more cruel than Karl Koch.
Pictured: Ils and her husband, Carl Koch
It's terrible for women to be fierce. From 1937 to 1945, the Buchenwald concentration camp held about 250,000 Jews, and these people who walked into the camp immediately knew Ils's notoriety. From the moment you step into the camp, it is best to pray not to see Ils, otherwise your life will be in danger.
Ils likes to ride a horse and wield a whip in a concentration camp, but anyone who sees something unpleasant, without saying a word, will beat the whip without saying a word, the woman who is prettier than her will be beaten, who dares to peek at her will also be beaten, in short, she can have 1,000 reasons to hit you, shoot you. Many people privately nicknamed Ils the nickname: Buchenwald's.
Pictured: Nazi female guards
But these are not the cruelest, and Ils also has a special collector's habit that makes male prisoners tremble! Ils would gather the male prisoners together and order them to take off their tops and check if they had tattoos. If a male prisoner has a tattoo and the pattern is exactly what she wants, the man will be unlucky and will be killed by Ils and stripped of his tattooed skin.
Pictured: Human skin "artwork" made by Ils
Yes, Yles's special hobby is to collect human skins, preferably male prisoner skins with tattoos. Many of the "works of art" that Illes carries in her home are made of human skin, such as her wallet, gloves, ticket clips, book covers, and lampshades at home, etc., which make people goosebumps when they think of it.
Pictured: Human skin lampshade
On 16 April 1945, when Buchenwald was liberated, Ils fled back to his hometown and was captured by the Americans two months later, while her husband, Karl Koch, had been executed by the SS for indiscriminate killings. In the judgment seat, people saw for the first time various "works of art" made of human skins by Ils, which shocked the world.
Pictured: Illes on trial
However, Illes escaped the death penalty by claiming to be pregnant and was later commuted to life in prison. On September 1, 1967, Ils Koch hanged herself in her cell, ending her sinful life.
Pictured: The Lampshade of thorn flowers is a comic strip
China has published a comic strip "The Lampshade of thorny flowers", and the story is based on Ils Koch.