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Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.
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Ilse Koch
German war criminal (1906–1967)
Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Karl-Otto Koch
German SS officer (1897–1945)
Karl-Otto Koch was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Buchenwald concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Germany
Buchenwald was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich territories. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Majdanek concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Poland (1941–1944)
Majdanek was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It had three gas chambers, two wooden gallows, and some 227 structures in all, placing it among…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Life imprisonment
Criminal punishment
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment in which the convicted individual will remain incarcerated for the rest of their natural life, with or without the possibility of release. Crimes that result in life imprisonment are considered extremely serious and usually…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)