(Daily Mail-UK-Times of Israel) Ed Wight and Stuart Dowell - A WWII photo album made from the skin of Nazi death camp victims has been found at an antiques market in Poland. Experts at the Auschwitz Memorial Museum said the skin likely came from an inmate murdered at the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany. Ilse Koch, the wife of camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch, is said to have had male prisoners with interesting tattoos murdered and then had their skin turned into interior designs. Her interests included lampshades, books, albums, table covers and thumbs which were used as light switches. Witnesses say she was helping Nazi doctor Erich Wagner who collected human skin from 100 people at the camp for his PhD thesis. Wagner was arrested in 1958 and committed suicide a year later. Ilse Koch was arrested by the U.S. and sentenced to life in prison following the war, committing suicide in her cell in 1967.
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