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Ilse Koch was married to the commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust and allegedly tortured prisoners

Ilse was also accused of taking human remains and making items out of them

Ryan Murphy used parts of Ilse's story in his Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Ilse Koch's story is being resurfaced for Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story .

In the series, Vicky Krieps plays Ilse , who was Nazi commander Karl-Otto Koch's wife and was known as the " Witch of Buchenwald ." Karl-Otto was the head of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where more than 50,000 people were killed during World War II, according to the Buchenwald Memorial . After the war ended, Ilse was arrested for war crimes and tried in both the Amer

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