Iise Koch, the infamous Nazi war criminal released by the American ocupation authorities after four years’ imprisonment, today went on trial before a German court at Augsburg charged with responsibility for 45 murders and complicity in an additional 135 killings of German or non-Allied nationals.
The notorious wife of a former commandant of the Buchenwald death camp is also charged with having ordered camp inmates murdered so that she could have their tattcoed skins made into lampshades, gloves and other objects. The trial, at which more than 400 witnesses will be heard, opened with the reading of a 139-page indictment.
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