tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post7702024754771097978..comments2024-01-14T15:52:43.644-05:00Comments on The Thirteenth Depository - A Wheel of Time Blog: GraendalDominichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17610557134981958201noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-80626826670121973522011-05-28T19:51:13.555-04:002011-05-28T19:51:13.555-04:00Thanks very much for your comment. You make some v...Thanks very much for your comment. You make some very interesting observations.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14767984732078916662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-2164049799839729992011-05-26T19:59:23.883-04:002011-05-26T19:59:23.883-04:00“The main theme all Graendal’s parallels follow is...“The main theme all Graendal’s parallels follow is the manipulation of others for power and pleasure and above all the subversion of minds to the Shadow’s cause.”<br /><br />I like that.<br /><br />It certainly is applicable to Ilse Koch, the “Bitch Of Buchenwald”: “the manipulation of others for power and pleasure.”<br /><br />I don’t know about Canada, but in the US, it is common to refer to a nasty, lower-class woman with vile motives as “The Bitch Of Buchenwald”. The derogatory term is most often used when a woman of limited intelligence and unappealing personal appearance occupies some minor position of authority, such as town clerk or licensing official.<br /><br />When a woman is called “The Bitch Of Buchenwald” in North America, the invariable implication is that the woman in question is uneducated, from the bottom of the socio-economic order, and has been granted some limited power over persons who would otherwise never associate with her. “The Bitch Of Buchenwald” carries the connotation that a lower-class woman enjoys—and abuses—her authority over persons from a higher economic and social status in order to settle life-long class grievances and in order to address issues of low self-esteem. There is the further connotation that the woman in question is ugly, overweight, abusive, and has psychological (if not psychiatric) issues.<br /><br />All of these forces were at work in the case of Ilse Koch. She was of poor background, uneducated, of low intelligence, overweight, unattractive—and came to delight in her new-found authority over persons placed in her (and her husband’s) charge. The woman was most likely either a sociopath or a psychopath.<br /><br />Modern-day Ilse Koch’s usually share the dull, disturbed eyes of the original “Bitch Of Buchenwald” as well as Koch’s blank, flabby face. Koch was of a “type” easily recognized today, seven decades after the original.<br /><br />As a practicing attorney, I have been called upon, frequently, to deal with modern-day Ilse Koch’s.<br /><br />In a homeowner association in Fairfax County, Virginia, right outside of Washington, D.C., the local property manager is a dead ringer for Ilse Koch. She looks like Ilse Koch, and could be Ilse Koch’s twin sister. She has been openly known to residents as “The Bitch Of Buchenwald” for twenty years. The Sully II property manager is an Ilse Koch clone. She even dresses inappropriately and provocatively, as did Koch, and considers herself attractive, which she most certainly is not.<br /><br />Some time ago, I represented a Sully II client in which this modern-day Ilse Koch showed up at a hearing wearing a body-hugging gray T-shirt without undergarments, exposing her nipples, which were disfigured. It was unbelievable. It was revolting. It was sickening. The first thing that came to mind the minute I saw this pig-faced woman was “The people who live in Sully II are right—this woman IS the Bitch Of Buchenwald”.<br /><br />Other notorious women associated with Nazi concentration camps all meet the same profiles—physical, mental and psychological—as the original Ilse Koch. It is a “type” easily recognized and identified by normal people—and normal people instinctively shun “Ilse Koch” types.<br /><br />It is all rather frightening, but it does help us understand evil.Helenhttp://www.fairfaxunderground.comnoreply@blogger.com