Monster: The Ed Gein Story is currently airing on Netflix. Here's everything you need to know including whether Ed actually knew Ilse Koch.

The Ed Gein Story,’ the character of Ilse Koch is fantastically referenced. Koch, the wife of a Nazi officer from Germany, becomes known to Gein through books and stories about her horrific crimes and is introduced to him by a friend.

In Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Ilse Koch is played by Vicky Krieps and is shown in the first episode when Adeline Watkins (Suzanna Son) brings Ed a box full of dark concentration camp paraphernalia as a present.

Gein was never officially tied to his brother’s death. Gein’s older brother Henry (played by Hudson Oz) makes a brief appearance in the first episode, only for Ed to murder him. In the show, after Henry threatens to move in with a twice-divorced woman,

Monster: The Ed Gein Story follows Ed Gein’s descent, from a repressive childhood in 1950s Wisconsin to grave robbing, murder, and a “house of horrors” that inspired Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Here's your guide to what is true and what's not in Netflix, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's "Monster: The Ed Gein Story."

Ilse Koch was a Nazi war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch served as the commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Despite not having an official role, she became an infamous figure and was given the moniker the ‘Kommandeuse of Buchenwald’ and the ‘B**** of Buchenwald’.

Gein also delves into a comic book titled The B**** of Buchenwald, which tells the story of real-life Nazi Ilse Koch, played by Vicky Krieps. The show vividly recreates warped scenes from the comic as part of the killer's twisted fantasies.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story,' now on Netflix, is about the serial killer who inspired 'Psycho' and 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.'