24-01-2024, 08:59 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Otto_Koch
Prosecution and death[edit]
Koch's actions at Buchenwald first caught the attention of SS-Obergruppenführer Josias, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont in 1941. In glancing over the death list of Buchenwald, Hereditary Prince Josias had stumbled across the name of Walter Krämer, a head hospital orderly at Buchenwald, which he recognized because Krämer had successfully treated him in the past. Hereditary Prince Josias investigated the case and found out that Koch, in a position as the Camp Commandant, had ordered Krämer and Karl Peix, a hospital attendant, killed as "political prisoners" because they had treated him for syphilis and he feared it might be discovered.[5] Josias also received reports that a certain prisoner had been shot while attempting to escape, and discovered that in fact, the prisoner had been told to get water from a well some distance from the camp, then was shot from behind; he had also helped treat Koch for syphilis.
By that time, Koch had been transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland, but his wife, Ilse, was still living at the Commandant's house in Buchenwald. Waldeck ordered a full-scale investigation of the camp by Georg Konrad Morgen, an SS officer who was an SS-judge in the SS Court Main Office. Throughout the investigation, more of Koch's orders to kill prisoners at the camp were revealed, as well as embezzlement of property stolen from prisoners.[5] The Kochs had used the massive Nazi apparatus to gain an enormous amount of wealth. [5] The Kochs were both arrested in August 1943 to await trial by an SS court.
SS Judge Konrad Morgen formally indicted the Kochs on 17 August 1944, charging Karl Koch with the "embezzlement and concealing of funds and goods in an amount of at least 200,000 RM," and the "premeditated murder" of three inmates - ostensibly to prevent them from giving evidence to the SS investigatory commission. Ilse was charged with the "habitual receiving of stolen goods, and taking for her benefit at least 25,000 RM..."[6] The trial resulted in Koch being sentenced to death for disgracing both himself and the SS.[7] Koch was executed by firing squad on 5 April 1945,[5] one week before American allied troops arrived to liberate the camp.[8] Contrary to some claims, however, Karl's body was not burned in the camp's crematoria, as they had run short of coal and had stopped operating in mid-March 1945. Instead, his body was disposed of in an unknown location.[9]
weird they would kill the guy who ran a 'death camp' where 3 jew prisoners died during 1941, in 1945, when the supposed mass murder of jews was happening in showers or whatever.
can any of the local golems explain this one to me? @Altruist @MysteriousWeeb420 @"MysteriоusWeeb420"
Prosecution and death[edit]
Koch's actions at Buchenwald first caught the attention of SS-Obergruppenführer Josias, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont in 1941. In glancing over the death list of Buchenwald, Hereditary Prince Josias had stumbled across the name of Walter Krämer, a head hospital orderly at Buchenwald, which he recognized because Krämer had successfully treated him in the past. Hereditary Prince Josias investigated the case and found out that Koch, in a position as the Camp Commandant, had ordered Krämer and Karl Peix, a hospital attendant, killed as "political prisoners" because they had treated him for syphilis and he feared it might be discovered.[5] Josias also received reports that a certain prisoner had been shot while attempting to escape, and discovered that in fact, the prisoner had been told to get water from a well some distance from the camp, then was shot from behind; he had also helped treat Koch for syphilis.
By that time, Koch had been transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland, but his wife, Ilse, was still living at the Commandant's house in Buchenwald. Waldeck ordered a full-scale investigation of the camp by Georg Konrad Morgen, an SS officer who was an SS-judge in the SS Court Main Office. Throughout the investigation, more of Koch's orders to kill prisoners at the camp were revealed, as well as embezzlement of property stolen from prisoners.[5] The Kochs had used the massive Nazi apparatus to gain an enormous amount of wealth. [5] The Kochs were both arrested in August 1943 to await trial by an SS court.
SS Judge Konrad Morgen formally indicted the Kochs on 17 August 1944, charging Karl Koch with the "embezzlement and concealing of funds and goods in an amount of at least 200,000 RM," and the "premeditated murder" of three inmates - ostensibly to prevent them from giving evidence to the SS investigatory commission. Ilse was charged with the "habitual receiving of stolen goods, and taking for her benefit at least 25,000 RM..."[6] The trial resulted in Koch being sentenced to death for disgracing both himself and the SS.[7] Koch was executed by firing squad on 5 April 1945,[5] one week before American allied troops arrived to liberate the camp.[8] Contrary to some claims, however, Karl's body was not burned in the camp's crematoria, as they had run short of coal and had stopped operating in mid-March 1945. Instead, his body was disposed of in an unknown location.[9]
weird they would kill the guy who ran a 'death camp' where 3 jew prisoners died during 1941, in 1945, when the supposed mass murder of jews was happening in showers or whatever.
can any of the local golems explain this one to me? @Altruist @MysteriousWeeb420 @"MysteriоusWeeb420"
just be confident
