Description: (First Commandant of the Nazi Concentration Camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen)
Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer who served in the Nazi regime's paramilitary organization Schutzstaffel (SS). Koch was the first commandant of the concentration camps at Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald. As the commandant of Majdanek in occupied Poland, Koch stole huge amounts of money and valuables from murdered Jews.