TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jardim,Tomaz
TI  - Ilse Koch on trial: making the "Bitch of Buchenwald" 
SN  - 9780674249189
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Koch, Ilse,
KW  - Koch, Karl Otto,
KW  - Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
KW  - Trials, litigation, etc
KW  - War crime trials
KW  - Germany
KW  - Dachau Trials, Dachau, Germany, 1945-1947
KW  - Germany (West)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - War criminals
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women war criminals
KW  - Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 U.S. Senate -- New Charges, New Challenges in a Divided Germany -- The Augsburg Trial of Ilse Koch -- The Long Years After
N2  - "After WWII, Ilse Koch became known worldwide as the Bitch of Buchenwald. Yet, while she was guilty of atrocities, the most sensational crimes and sexual perversions ascribed to her by courts and newspapers never happened. Tomaz Jardim reveals how Koch's perceived betrayal of womanhood sealed her fate as a scapegoat for a society seeking absolution"--
ER  -