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Karl-Otto Koch

German ss officer and first commandant of the buchenwald and sachsenhausen concentration camp (1897-1945).

Born August 2nd, 1897 in Darmstadt.

Died April 5th, 1945 at 47 years old in Buchenwald concentration camp (ballistic trauma).

Occupations
concentration camp guard, military officer, politician, torturer
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To the most trivial actions, attach the devotion and mindfulness of a hundred monks. To matters of life and death, attach a sense of humor. Zhuangzi