Weird Wednesday: Ilse Koch — The Witch of Buchenwald

This week’s Weird Wednesday takes a detour from folklore into something far more chilling, the real-life horror story of Ilse Koch, the so-called Witch of Buchenwald.Once a Nazi war wife living in luxury on the edge of a concentration camp, Ilse’s name became synonymous with cruelty, sadism, and disturbing rumors of human-skin souvenirs. But how much of what we’ve heard is fact, and how much is dark myth born from unimaginable evil?Join us as we separate history from horror and dive into one of World War II’s most infamous figures.