"Ed Gein, nicknamed "The Butcher of Plainfield," isn't the only person to have fashioned household items from the remains of his victims. Ilse Koch, once called "The Witch of Buchenwald," also allegedly hand-picked Jewish prisoners and turned their bodies into lampshades. While these allegations remain unproven in court, Koch's cruelty is still legendary, which is why she plays a small yet important role in the Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story."
"General Lucius D. Clay, of the United States Army who was the interim military governor of the American Zone in Germany, said that while he could not convict Koch on the crimes of making objects of human remains and reduced her sentencing to four years, he still said in 1948 (via The New York Times): "I hold no sympathy for Ilse Koch. She was a woman of depraved character and ill repute. She had done many things reprehensible and punishable, undoubtedly, under German law. We were not trying her for those things. We were trying her as a war criminal on specific charges.""
Ed Gein’s crimes inspired the Netflix film Monster: The Ed Gein Story, which also depicts Ilse Koch, nicknamed "The Witch of Buchenwald." Ilse Koch allegedly hand-picked Jewish prisoners and turned bodies into lampshades, and two inmates testified in 1950 that they saw lampshades prepared from human skin presented to her. Objects made of human remains were discovered at Buchenwald, but investigations by American and West German military courts did not establish connections to Koch. General Lucius D. Clay described Koch as depraved yet reduced her sentence to four years because specific war-crime convictions were lacking. Actress Vicky Krieps has Jewish ancestry through her grandfather and was initially scared to take the role.
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