Ilse Koch Rearrested by German Authorities As She is Freed by
U.S. Army at End of Term  Ilse Koch, notorious German war
criminal who has been charged with ordering inmates of the
Buchenwald death camp murdered in order to use their tattooed
skins for lampshades, book covers and other objects, was today
arrested by Bavarian authorities as she was freed at the
Landsberg women’s prison where she completed a four-year term on
various war crimes charges.  The notorious criminal was
immediately transported to another prison at Aichach, near here,
where she will remain until she is tried by the German
authorities on charges of crimes against German nationals at the
Nazi camp. Her original sentence by an American military court
was life imprisonment, but last year it was reduced by Gen
Lucius D. Clay, then American commander in Germany, to a four-
year term. The commutation of sentence aroused public
indignation in the United States and led to a Senatorial
investigation.