Mark Jacobson - The Lampshade

in Weimar, 8, 159, 222

Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth), 8

Hochlenzer hotel, 241—42

Hoecker, Emmerich, 170

Hofburg Treasure House, 119—20

Hofmann, Otto, 165

Holiday, Billie, 189

Hollywood, Calif., 236

Holocaust, 57, 117, 121, 124, 133, 146—47, 226, 247, 251—52, 255—56, 274, 324 n —25 n

Americanization of, 111

Kipperman’s acquaintance with, 126—27

particular/universal dichotomy and, 123, 261—62

as punishment from God, 264

Holocaust deniers, 52, 108—9, 116, 139—54, 263

Rassinier and, 147—48

scholarly historical revisionism and, 147—51, 322 n —23 n

see also Denier Bud; Irving, David

homosexuals, 91, 236

Hooker, John Lee, 23

Hoover, Herbert, 31

horseback riding, 16, 20, 235

Hose, Sam, 198—99

Hoven, Waldemar, 236

Hungary, Hungarians, 214, 215

Hunt, Alvaro, 189—90

hurricanes, 185

tracking of, 31—32, 33

Husserl, Edmund, 160

Illinois Holocaust and Education Center, 111

“Illustrated Man, the,” 125

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (film), 232—35, 233

immigrants, 78—79, 103, 239, 324 n

Indianapolis Star, 131

Inglourious Basterds (film), 322 n

“Innocence” (I. Koch), 237—38

Institute for Historical Review (IHR), 148—49, 323 n

Iraq War, 250

Irish, 78—79

Irving, David, 108—9, 149, 252, 297, 323 n

Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 230

Israel, 116, 148, 250, 263—64, 269, 273, 291

sexual legacy of Ilse Koch in, 324 n —25 n

Israeli Defense Force (IDF), 263, 269, 273

Italian Americans, 49—50, 78—79, 324 n

Ivan, Hurricane, 32

Jackson, C. D., 146, 147, 167

Jackson, Jesse, 303

Jackson Heights, Queens, 169

Jacobson, David, 52—55, 241, 242

Jacobson, Harry, 54

Jacobson, Larry, 54

Jacobson, Mark (author):

background of, 49—50, 52—55, 93, 241

Jamaica, 240

jazz, 197, 283

Jefferson Parish, 38—39, 183, 193

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 90—91

Jena, 17, 308

Jena, La., 308

Jena University, 225

Jerusalem, 113, 154, 206, 207, 255—57, 260—80, 291, 305

Chamber of the Holocaust in, 274—77

Tomb of David in, 277

Yad Vashem in, see Yad Vashem

Jerusalem Corridor, 271

Jerusalem syndrome, 268—70, 278

Jesus Christ, 119, 182, 277

Jewish Defense League (JDL), 322 n

Jewish law, human remains and, 265, 275

Jewish Supremacism (Duke), 248

Jews, 12, 19, 106, 142, 144, 223, 225, 227, 237, 245, 246, 272—73, 298

assimilation of, 52, 61

in Buchenwald, 91, 92, 93

burial of remains of, 133

Cherokee compared with, 322 n

as chosen people, 123

as collectors of Nazi memorabilia, 108

in East Germany, 212—14, 225—26

escape of, 103, 147, 156

final solution for, 165

gas chamber deaths of, 147

as Holocaust deniers, 149

interracial sexual intercourse of, 65

in New Orleans, 37—38, 156—57, 196, 204, 247—48, 288—93, 325 n

in New York, 49—50, 52—55, 111, 141

in “Operation Harvest Festival,” 236

organ donation and, 278—79

Orthodox, 133, 278—79, 290, 292

particularism vs. universalism and, 122—24, 261—62

Sephardic, 37, 320 n

tattoos and, 125

in Terrebonne Parish, 83

ultra-Orthodox (frum) , 60—62

ultra-Orthodox (Haredi), 264, 265, 271

in U.S. Buchenwald forces, 145

“Jew Song, The” (song), 92, 93

Jivaro, 105

“John Brown’s Body” (Benét), 37

Johndroe, Gordon, 200

Johnson, Robert, 24, 27, 320 n

Johnson, Tommy, 24—25, 24, 219

Johnston, J. Bennett, 244

Jones, Doris, 114

Jordan, Eddie (the Hat), 186—87

Judgment at Nuremberg (film), 140—41

Julius, Pope, 100

“Just a Closer Walk with Thee” (song), 286

Justice at Dachau (Greene), 237

Kahane, Anetta, 212—14

Kahane, Doris, 213, 214

Kahane, Max, 213, 214

Kahn, Catherine, 325 n —26 n

Kameradschaften (Society of Comrades), 298—301

Kant, Immanuel, 161—63

Karnofsky, Morris, 37—38

Katrina, Hurricane, 1, 33—41, 45, 68, 73, 74, 157, 178, 185, 186, 188—91, 193, 259, 290, 310, 323 n

burial of the unclaimed dead from, 281—86, 287

Canal Street memorial for, 281—82

Duke’s views on, 246, 249

lampshade and, 84—89, 94, 138, 190—91

OPP operations and, 180, 181

race and, 199—200

Rebennack’s views on, 203, 205

as retribution from God, 278, 292

Keitz, Gustav, 195

Kennedy, John F., 146—47, 157, 245, 321 n

Kenyon International, 285—86

Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, 268—69

Khmer Rouge, 93

Khosrau II, King of Persia, 119

Kipperman, Ken, 124—33, 135—39, 136

background of, 124—25

at Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 126—28

in chimney incident, 127—28

Denier Bud’s interest in, 152

in Shadows of Silence, 136—37

USHMM encounters of, 126—29, 132—33

Kipperman, Paula, 128, 137

Kirschbaum, Josef, 237

Klemperer, Victor, 213

Klimt, Gustave, 134

Knigge, Volkhard, 293—96, 300, 302—5, 308, 312—13

Knight Templar, 206

Koch, Artwin, 236

Koch, Gisela, 236

Koch, Gudrun, 236

Koch, Ilse (the Bitch of Buchenwald), 14—21, 28, 70, 91, 92, 137, 143, 166, 228—38, 297, 304, 320 n

commutation of sentence of, 50—52

Dachau trial of, 19—21, 50, 51, 154, 236—37

film portrayal of, 232—35, 233

Karl given special gift by, 17, 216

as “Lady of the Lampshades,” 17—18, 19, 50—52, 57, 104, 107, 113, 274, 295, 312

lovers of, 92, 236

marriage of, 15, 237

Pappo Strauss and, 228—29

physical appearance of, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 231

pregnancy of, 19, 237

sexual legacy of, in Israel, 324 n —25 n

suicide of, 238

villa of, 16, 131

West German trial of, 51, 233

Koch, Karl, 14—17, 70, 131, 236, 304

homosexual allegations about, 236

Ilse’s special gift to, 17, 216

in Lublin, 19, 92, 229

marriage of, 15, 237

trial and execution of, 19, 143

zoo order of, 11

Kogon, Eugen, 90—91, 154, 217

Kohanim, 275, 325 n

Köhler, Ilse, see Koch, Ilse

Köhler, Uwe, 236—39

Korean War, 83

Kristol, Irving, 167

Kuhn, Harry, 217

Ku Klux Klan, 244

Kuwait, Iraq’s invasion of, 141

“Lady Lazarus” (Plath), 70

Lafitte, Jean, 37

Lake Lawn Metaire Cemetery, 77, 79

lampshade, Buchenwald, 94—95, 103—7, 139, 140, 143—45, 260, 312

Cyril Neville and, 210

in Death Mills, 103, 104

disappearance of, 107, 113, 130

Kahane’s views on, 213—14

Kipperman’s search for, 129—32

Pappo Strauss and, 228, 229

Rosenberg’s views on, 156, 168

Schmuhl and, 130—32, 137, 166

Stringer’s story about, 17—19, 71, 120

tattooed human skin and, 144

in Weimar march, 104, 113, 145

witnesses to existence of, 120—21

lampshade, New Orleans, 43—47, 62—71, 81—87, 94—95, 107—17, 119—24, 137—38, 151—52, 189—91, 216, 255—62, 289—96, 310—13, 325 n —26 n

author’s avoiding of, 56—57

author’s receiving of, 47, 56