health | January 17, 2026

List of Infamous War Criminals

Birthdate: September 22, 1906

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Dresden, Germany

Died: September 1, 1967

Ilse Koch was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps. Also known as Beast of Buchenwald, The Bitch of Buchenwald, and Butcher Widow, she was tried by the U.S. military for her sadistic abuse of war prisoners. She died of suicide.