The Bitch of Buchenwald | Curtains, Corpses, & Control

Curtains, Corpses, and Control

The year is 1945.
Evil is tidy, cruelty is domestic, and someone’s polishing silver while the world burns.
JoLynne and Amanda ruin the story of Ilse Koch, the “Bitch of Buchenwald”, a woman who proved that order without empathy is just horror in heels.

This is a sneak peek from our Patreon series History But Make It Worse, where we dig into the stories that are too dark, too messy, or too cursed for the main feed.

In this episode:
• A bookkeeper becomes a monster
• Karl Koch gets fired by Nazis for ethics violations (imagine)
• “Reveal the Sins” — real crimes, absurd punishments
• Bed, Wed, or Behead: 1940s edition

To hear the full story, including the part where it somehow gets worse, join us on Patreon.

Chapters

00:00 Cold Open
02:00 Reveal the Sins
07:45 Fact or Folklore
10:30 The Making of Order
15:00 The House Next to Hell
17:00 Bed, Wed, or Behead
20:30 Cruelty is Couture
25:00 The Reckoning
31:00 The Debrief

Credits

Hosts: JoLynne Kohl & Amanda Collaso

Produced by Barely HistoricalContact: oops@barelyhistorical.comLet’s ruin the past.

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