The son of an Imperial German Navy officer, Koch was born in Benevento.Koch served as a lieutenant in the Grenadiers where he was unpopular with his fellow soldiers and was dismissed from the army in 1939 for insulting a superior officer.Recalled on the eve of the war, he saw continuous service until the armistice of September 1943, after which he moved to Florence.
Settling in the Social Republic in the north of Italy, Koch joined the 'Special Service of Republican Police' led by Tullio Tamburini.In January 1944, he established the Banda Koch as a special task force charged with hunting down partisans and rounding up deportees for the Germans.Koch came under the protection of Herbert Kappler, SD chief in Koch's base of Rome, and as such had a free hand to employ whatever tactics he saw fit with Banda Koch, which soon became a by-word for cruelty and violence.Koch was given his own prisons and torture chambers and continued his activity in Florence and then Milan following the fall of Rome to the Allies.Along with police chief Pietro Caruso, who was independently involved in the killing of partisans, Koch was behind hundreds of deaths and the Social Republic government even ordered an amnesty of political prisoners not charged with murder for fear that Koch would have them killed.
Feared even by Benito Mussolini for his violent extremism, Il Duce eventually had his close ally Renzo Montagna arrest Koch for his excesses in October 1944.He soon fell into Allied hands, tried by an italian tribunal and was convicted of six charges at the High Court.He was executed at Rome's Forte Bravetta aged 26.
I am a retired colonel from army and for the last 28 years pursuing career in Engineering education. I am a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and Post graduate in Machine design from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. I have obtained Ph D Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Dr Ram manohar Lohia Avadh University. I am also the recipient of Ph D degrees in Strategic studies, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Religious studies and political Science from other Universities. I have also written and published four books on political Science, education and English poetry. I have published 38 Technical papers in various journals and seminar proceedings. I have also published 950 research articles on line in faithcommons.org and Sanghparivar.org. There are 15 English short stories to my credit. I have published 82 articles on various subjects like strategic studies, history and political science in new Swatantra times published from Hyderavbad. As a professor I guided more than 95 projects at degree level and thirty at PG level. Some candidates are pursuing research under my guidance.I am recipient of Three national awards.
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The son of an Imperial German Navy officer, Koch was born in Benevento.Koch served as a lieutenant in the Grenadiers where he was unpopular with his fellow soldiers and was dismissed from the army in 1939 for insulting a superior officer.Recalled on the eve of the war, he saw continuous service until the armistice of September 1943, after which he moved to Florence.
Settling in the Social Republic in the north of Italy, Koch joined the 'Special Service of Republican Police' led by Tullio Tamburini.In January 1944, he established the Banda Koch as a special task force charged with hunting down partisans and rounding up deportees for the Germans.Koch came under the protection of Herbert Kappler, SD chief in Koch's base of Rome, and as such had a free hand to employ whatever tactics he saw fit with Banda Koch, which soon became a by-word for cruelty and violence.Koch was given his own prisons and torture chambers and continued his activity in Florence and then Milan following the fall of Rome to the Allies.Along with police chief Pietro Caruso, who was independently involved in the killing of partisans, Koch was behind hundreds of deaths and the Social Republic government even ordered an amnesty of political prisoners not charged with murder for fear that Koch would have them killed.
Feared even by Benito Mussolini for his violent extremism, Il Duce eventually had his close ally Renzo Montagna arrest Koch for his excesses in October 1944.He soon fell into Allied hands, tried by an italian tribunal and was convicted of six charges at the High Court.He was executed at Rome's Forte Bravetta aged 26.
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