Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

The Beast of Buchenwald

Ilse Koch was known as the Beast of Buchenwald, the sadistic wife of a Buchenwald camp officer who committed heinous and grotesque crimes, such as taking the skin of dead prisoners with interesting tattoos and keeping them as souvenirs. She committed suicide in 1960.

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