The Woman Who Ordered Lampshades Out of Human Skin.

They called her the Bitch of Buchenwald, she was Lady Commandant, the wife of the Nazi Commandant Karl Koch. Her and her husband’s crimes were so brutal, that even the Nazis felt that they went over the top in their sadistic cruelty. Ilse in particular was found terrifyingly fascinating, as she allegedly ordered lampshades, book covers and other items to be made out of human skin. #notyourhistoryclasspodcast #ilsekoch #bitchofbuchenwald #monsteredgein #worldwar2 #history #nazi #ryanmurphy #hitchcock #texaschainsawmassacre #psycho #silenceofthelambsThanks to Mike Meyers for the theme music, you can follow him on X @themikeshow42.Background Music: Light Lab, Rest You Sleeping Giant, Free Music Archive, CCBY SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSwww.notyourhistoryclass.comhttps://www.instagram.com/notyourhistoryclass/https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566814031230https://x.com/nyhcpodcasthttps://www.tiktok.com/@notyourhistoryclassSources:https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/January-15/the-witch-of-Buchenwald (boo-hen-wald)-is-sentenced-to-prisonhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137496959_8https://www.britannica.com/event/Kristallnachthttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Otto-Koch (Kohh)https://schoolhistory.co.uk/modern/Ilse (ill-zee)-Koch (Kohh)/https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/Koch (Kohh)-Ilse (ill-zee)-1906-1967https://biographics.org/Ilse (ill-zee)-Koch (Kohh)-biography-the-nazi-bitch-of-Buchenwald (boo-hen-wald)/https://theconversation.com/no-woman-in-the-usual-sense-Ilse (ill-zee)-Koch (Kohh)-the-bitch-of-Buchenwald (boo-hen-wald)-was-a-holocaust-war-criminal-but-was-she-also-an-easy-target-203960https://www.hup.harvard.edu/file/feeds/PDF/9780674249189_sample.pdfhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dark-tetradhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/sadismhttps://tattoovalue.net/2025/08/irezumi-the-history-and-techniques-of-traditional-japanese-tattooing/https://untypicable.co.uk/articles/2025/02/25/the-sociology-and-psychology-of-tattoos-identity-rebellion-and-the-myth-of-regret/https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/josias-prince-of-waldeck-and-pyrmont/https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1058https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/syphilis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351756https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/exhibits/show/exhibits/introductionhttps://datasciencemilan.org/what-real-contributions-did-mengele-make-to.htmlhttps://spartacus-educational.com/GERKoch (Kohh)I.htmhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-a-new-home/202212/the-surprising-reason-some-people-always-blame-others?msockid=0ed4ca8e7588682215b3df4374e769b4https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.htmlhttps://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treat/essentials/history_ptsd.asphttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3181586/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10379024/https://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/