Ilse Koch on Trial - Making the Bitch of Buchenwald

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.

About the author

Tomaz Jardim is the author of The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany, winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize. A former fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, he is Associate Professor of History at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tomaz Jardim
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9780674249189
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24918-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Europe, European History, Biography: general, HISTORY / Europe / General, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, Legal History, War Crimes, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Biography: philosophy and social sciences, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater