Buchenwald Concentration Camp Personnel - Karl Otto Koch, Ilse Koch, Waldemar Hoven, Hermann Hackmann, Gerhard Rose, Arnold Strippel (Paperback)

Chapters: Karl Otto Koch, Ilse Koch, Waldemar Hoven, Hermann Hackmann, Gerhard Rose, Arnold Strippel, Kaethe Hoern, Frieda Jahnke, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Karl Otto Koch (August 2, 1897 - April 5, 1945), a Standartenfuhrer (Colonel) in the German Schutzstaffel (SS), was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, and later also served as a commander at the Majdanek concentration camp. Koch was born in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse on August 2, 1897. His father worked in local registrar's office and died when Karl was only eight years old. After completing elementary school in 1912, Koch began studying business and worked as a messenger and a apprentice in a bookkeeping department in a local factory. In 1916, he volunteered to join the army and fought on the Western Front until he was captured by the British in 1918. Koch spent rest of the war as a POW and returned to Germany in 1919. As a soldier he conducted himself well and was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class, the Observer's Badge and the Wound Badge in Black. Following WWI, Koch worked as a accounting supervisor in a bank and later also in the same role in an insurance company. In 1931, Karl Otto Koch joined the NSDAP and the Schutzstaffel. Koch served with several SS-Standarten until June 13, 1935, when he became commander of the Columbia-Haus concentration camp in Berlin-Tempelhof. In April 1936 he was assigned to the concentration camp at Esterwegen. Four months later he was moved to Sachsenhausen, and on August 1, 1937, he was given command of the new concentration camp at Buchenwald. He remained at Buchenwald until September 1941, when he was transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp for POWs. That was largely due to an invest...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=753