Editing Karl-Otto Koch (section)

==Family==

[[File:Ilse Koch.png|thumb|right|180px|Ilse Koch after her arrest.]]

Koch first married Käte Müller in 1924 and had one psychiatrically troubled son named Manfred; however, this marriage ended with divorce in 1931 due to his infidelity.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jardim |first=Tomaz |title=Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald' |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |year=2023 |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674249189 |isbn=9780674249189|page=14}}</ref> On 25 May 1937, Koch married [[Ilse Koch]] (née Margarete Ilse Köhler), with whom he had a son and two daughters. Ilse became known later as "The Witch of Buchenwald" (''Die Hexe von Buchenwald''), usually rendered in English as "The Bitch of Buchenwald."<ref>{{cite book|title=The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich|author=William L. Shirer|year=1990|page=885|edition=3rd|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York}}</ref> Though Ilse Koch never had any official job at Buchenwald or at any other concentration camp, many inmates alleged that she used the tacit authority she had as the commandant's wife to abuse prisoners, or seek their punishment by the camp SS.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jardim |first=Tomaz |title=Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald' |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |year=2023 |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674249189 |isbn=9780674249189|page=293}}</ref>