Ilse Koch (German: [kɔχ]; née Margarete Ilse Köhler; 22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald (1937–1941) and Majdanek (1941–1943). She was one of the first prominent Nazis to be tried by the U.S. military.
- Chilling new book has unearthered thousands of complicit German women
- At least half a million German women witnessed and contributed to Hitler’s terror.
- At the heart of Nazi killings: Irma Grese was a concentration camp guard and one of the few women to be called to account for her crimes
Professor Wendy Lower’s ‘Hitler’s Furies’ has unearthed the complicity of tens of thousands of German women in the sort of mass, monstrous, murder we now blame on the Nazis.
Hitler’s mantra for German women, ” Kinder, Küche, Kirche — children, kitchen and church — was not inconsistent with the kind of human rage the crowd shows at a lynching or, for that matter during an NFL game!
Professor Wendy Lower points out that it was German nurses, their aprons filled with morphine vials and needles, that slaughtered those the regime considered physically or mentally defective. Midwives reported defective babies, recommending euthanasia and sterilization. And of course a lot of what we now know is from Nazi records typed by dutiful, female, secretaries. Women manned refreshment tables, feeding the executioners so they could take a break from their work.
From a review at The Daily Mail: Pauline Kneissler worked at Grafeneck Castle, a euthanasia
‘hospital’ in southern Germany, and toured mental institutions selecting 70 ‘patients’ a day. At the castle they were gassed, which she decided was not that bad because ‘death by gas doesn’t hurt’.
Complicit: Lisel Willhaus (right) and Lisolotte Meirer (left ) killed Jews for sport during the Third Reich. Liselotte Meier,joined her strutting boss, an SS officer, on shooting parties in the snow, hunting and killing Jews for sport.
Guilty: Irma Grese, nicknamed ‘The Beautiful Beast’ pictured with Joseph Kramer who was commandant of Auschwitz and later Belsen concentration camps. She was hanged aged 22 in 1945 and him in 1946
Another SS wife, Lisel Willhaus, wife of a camp commandant, used to sit on the balcony of their house and take pot shots at Jewish prisoners with her rifle.
Vera Wohlauf’s husband Julius commanded a police battalion that rounded up 11,000 Jews in Poland for transportation to Treblinka for liquidation. This lady, then pregnant. led a convoy of killers to the town, and stood in the market square brandishing a whip as nearly a thousand who resisted the round-up or collapsed in the summer heat were beaten to death or shot.
Johanna Altvater, a 22 year old secretary, wore riding breeches while prodding Ukrainian men, 
women and children into a truck ‘like a cattle herder’. She marched into a building being used as a makeshift hospital and through the children’s ward, eyeing each bed-ridden child. Then she stopped, picked one up, took it to the balcony and threw the child to the pavement three floors below.
One observer noted that Altvater often lured children with sweets. When they came to her and opened their mouths, she shot them in the mouth with the small pistol that she kept at her side. On another occasion, she beckoned a toddler over, then grabbed him tightly by the legs and slammed his head against a wall as if she were banging the dust out of a mat. She threw the lifeless child at the feet of his father.
Violence to children was also the trademark of Gestapo wife and mother Josefine Block. A little girl approached her, crying and begging for her life. ‘I will help you!’ Block declared, grabbed the girl by the hair, smashed her with her fists, then pushed her to the ground and stamped on her head until she was dead.
Desperate Jewish parents often approached Block to ask for help, assuming that, as a young woman and mother, she’d be sympathetic.
But she would use her pram to ram Jews whom she encountered on the streets and was said to have actually killed a small Jewish child with it. Such treatment is an affront to any sense of humanity, let alone womanhood — all the more so because most of these crimes went unpunished.
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