Overview
- Summary
- Describes the most famous German accused of having committed atrocities during World War II. Ilse Koch has won a diabolic kind of immortality as the lady with the lampshade made from human skin. Puts her career in context of the German Nazi era. As the wife of a concentration camp commander, she was to grow accustomed to a privileged existence. Her lifestyle was financed mainly through embezzlement. Her activities saw her brought before a court of the SS and later in front of the American Military Tribunal, and finally the German High Court, were she would be found guilty of crimes against humanity.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [United Kingdom] : Artsmagic, [2009]
©2009 - Locale
- Germany
- Notes
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Documentary.
Title from container.
Special features: A collection of photographs from Koch's unpublished albums.
Not rated.
DVD, region 0; Dolby Digital, NTSC.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Women war criminals--Germany--Biography. War criminals--Germany--Biography. Germany--History--1933-1945. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany. Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Germany. Biographical films. Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Feature films. Video recordings. Biographies. Koch, Ilse,--1906-1967. Buchenwald (Concentration camp)--History.
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- 2024-06-21 18:42:00
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