Ilse Koch

German war criminal (1906–1967)

On October 7, 2025, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was Ed Gein, with 1,950,675 views. It and the next three articles were all WikiPop's picks in the past 30 days, and we don't repeat an article that soon. So WikiPop's pick is #5, Ilse Koch, with 248,784 views.

Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".

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