The much-awaited series of the month, MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story was released on Netflix on October 2, 2025. Following its release, MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story has become one of the most watched series of the week on Netflix.
Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story is the true story of American serial killer named Ed Gein infamous by the name of Butcher of Plainfield.
Since you have landed on this page, True Scoop assumes that you have started to streaming the psychological thriller on Netflix and wondering about the comic book 'The Bitch of Buchenwald' that acted as a catalyst to raise the serial killer inside him.
In Episode 1 of the series, a character named Adeline Watkins played by Suzanna Son who seems to be having a romantic relationship with Ed meets him in a bar cum eatery. There, Adeline shows Ed a series of photos of the Nazi concentration camp where Jews were massacred. It impacts the mental health of Ed Gein.
Thereafter, Adeline showcase Ed a bizarre comic book named 'The Bitch of Buchenwald'. The comic is based on a woman named Ilse Koch who is wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II.
Adeline says, "She is real. So she did all of that stuff."
The comic book showcased how Koch used to torture and kill people. Thereafter, Ed starts to read the infamous comic book and start killing people just like Koch did in the comic.
Ilse Koch is a real life historical character. As per Britannica, Ilse Koch was a Nazi war criminal involved in holocaust. She was the German wife of a commandant (1937–41) of Buchenwald concentration camp, notorious for her perversion and cruelty.
On May 29, 1937, she married Karl Otto Koch, a colonel in the SS who was commander of the Sachsenhausen camp. In the summer of 1937 he was transferred to Buchenwald, then a new concentration camp near Weimar.
There Koch acquired her reputation as a sadist and nymphomaniac, beating prisoners with her riding crop and forcing them to perform physically exhausting activities for her own amusement.
Koch and her husband enjoyed a lavish lifestyle in an elegant house on Buchenwald’s grounds, and he had a large horseback-riding arena built especially for her.
Although the inmates were forced into starvation, the Kochs had all the food and alcohol they wanted.
Coming back to the comic, it is said to be written by Vixen Valdez.
