WAR CRIMES: The Bitch Again

Some Germans were bitterly cynical, some U.S. citizens furiously angry, and Communist propagandists were delighted last week. The reason: a U.S. Army board of review in Germany had reduced the life sentence of Use Koch to four years. Said one German: "Perhaps she'll go to the States as a G.I. bride."

Use Koch was the redhaired, sexually psychopathic "Bitch of Buchenwald," the Nazi concentration camp where more than 50,000 died. Inmates said that Use had men flogged for the pleasure it gave her, and collected human skin, preferably tattooed, for lampshades and...

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