In April 1945, an Intelligence Team from
the Psychological Warfare Division of
the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied
Forces went to the newly liberated
Buchenwald Camp, and interviewed
survivors and attempted to document what
had happened there
The team was headed by Albert G.
Rosenberg, and the Main Report (history
of the camp) was written by survivor
Eugen Kogon
Extracts:
"Frau Koch took baths in Madeira
(Portuguese wine) that was poured
into the bathtub."
"I was asked whether Frau Koch had
satisfied her perverse desires with
me (she would use a small stick to
beat the penis she forced a prisoner
to show her); I could answer no in
good conscience."
"The fact that Koch had lamps made
of human skin, which of course had
to be decorated with 'artistic'
tattoos, did not distinguish him
from the other SS officers: They had
the same 'artworks' made for their
family homes. It is more interesting
that Frau Koch had a lady's handbag
made out of the same material. She
was just as proud of it as a South
Sea island woman would have been
about her cannibal trophies."
