Ilse Koch
In the courtroom, Koch said that she was pregnant.  She was telling the truth; she was eight months pregnant.  Koch already had a reputation for having sex with many different men.  The Buchenwald Report said there were rumors that Koch was having relationships with Waldemar Hoven, the chief medical doctor at Buchenwald, and Hermann Florstedt, the Deputy Commandant, at the same time.  In his book Innocent at Dachau, the Dachau tribunal court reporter, Joseph Halow, wrote that rumors said Koch had relationships with many SS officers, and even with some of the prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp.  Still, Koch's pregnancy surprised the court because she was 41 years old at the time.  She was also being kept by herself in prison, and saw no men except the Americans who questioned her; most of them were Jewish. In his book, Halow also says he was shocked to learn that Koch may have turned to other men because her husband was a homosexual.  Records at Buchenwald showed that he had been treated for syphilis.