| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 357 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Ilse Koch and the world of the concentration camps -- Corruption, murder, and the SS trial of Ilse and Karl Koch -- American military justice and the "Bitch of Buchenwald" -- Clemency, controversy, and the Koch case in the US Senate -- New charges, new challenges in a divided Germany -- The Augsburg trial of Ilse Koch -- The long years after |
| Summary |
After WWII, Ilse Koch became known worldwide as the "Bitch of Buchenwald." She was assuredly guilty of atrocities, but the most sensational crimes ascribed to her by prosecutors and newspapers went unproven. Tomaz Jardim reveals how Koch's perceived betrayal of womanhood sealed her fate as a scapegoat for a society seeking absolution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2023) |
| Subject |
Koch, Ilse, 1906-1967.
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Koch, Karl Otto, 1897-1945.
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Koch, Ilse, 1906-1967 fast |
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Koch, Karl Otto, 1897-1945 fast |
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Buchenwald (Concentration camp) -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Buchenwald (Concentration camp) fast |
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War crime trials -- Germany.
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Dachau Trials, Dachau, Germany, 1945-1947.
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War crime trials -- Germany (West)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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War criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Women war criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY / Holocaust
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Atrocities
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
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War crime trials
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War criminals
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Women war criminals
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Germany
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Germany -- Dachau
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Germany (West)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674293090 |
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0674293096 |
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9780674293106 |
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067429310X |
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9780674249189 |
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0674249186 |
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