Q&A: Did the Nazis really use human skin to make handbags and purses?
I was watching film of the Nuremberg Trials and the narrator was talking about the Nazis using human skin for purses and handbags, and other parts of bodies to make soaps etc. Did this really happen?

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Answer by David W
they didn’t waste to waste anything

Answer by peaches6
Sad to say, but yes it really happened. Nazis also made lampshades and other horrific experiments on the jews.

Answer by mach2.0
I haven’t heard directly about purses, but they did make backs of chairs….tattoos, they made lampshades, and horribly, made soap..Women’s hair for special things in u-boats (submarines)
They also shrunk people’s heads…..

Answer by Master Blaster Runs Bartertown
I’m jewish and even I don’t believe things like that…

EDIT = Love all the thumbs down..

I know people who think the Nazis consorted with Space Reptiles for weapons technology in exchange for human blood. There’s even Youtube on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWq2XJCAmNA…. Well, as interesting as these “mega atrocities” are, The Nazis were evil enough without having to turn them all into Silence of the Lambs Buffalo-Bill type maniacs with urban legends.

It’s this kind of expost facto historical distortions that will prevent the Jewish people from recognizing the next generation of mortal enemies. The NAZIS were all smiles,handshakes, free cigarettes and chocolates, and we were too busy looking for Pogrom type raids to take them seriously until it was too late.

Live in Reality, my people….true Evil is never so blatant.

Answer by escritoramx
Perhaps. What do you think they did with all the hair they shaved from women’s heads?

Answer by El
http://www.ushmm.org
www.shamash.org/holocaust/photos/
en.allexperts.com/q/20th-Century-History-3242/Evolution…
www.auschwitz.dk/Auschwitz.htm ·
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/extcamps..
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/269548/Holocaust/215…

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read, learn so that history does not repeat .

Answer by pro_sassenheime
There is evidence that ‘lamp shades’ were in fact made from human skin but I’m unsure about the rest. The issue of lamp shades became big when they had Ilse Koch (the wife of Karl Koch) on trial to prove that she had in fact ordered the deaths of Buchenwald camp inmates for this purpose. However, after a intensive investigation by the (out of all people) SS before the war ended, they too could not find any evidence of such demand ever to have been made by Ilse Koch
The trial was held in Dachau in 1947 by the American military and is one of the most controversial ever held on a single prisoner because despite all the accusations they could not prove wrong doing on Ilse. The US military even went so far as to torture the SS investigator (the Judge) Conrad Morgan who had investigated corruption and murder at the Buchenwald camp to force a false statement out of him so that they could ‘nail’ Ilse Koch on the ‘Lamp shade’ issue which would have given them a pretext to have her hanged! Despite the SS being as notorious the Judge was incorruptible and refused to relent, but they had beaten him severely just the same.
Finally in August 1947 they got Ilse Koch on a variety of charges enough to jail her, which included ‘Guilty of participating in a common plan to violate the laws of usages’ of War under the Geneva Convention of 1929 and the Hague Convention of 1907′
Illse koch would do a lot to get sympathy and becoming pregnant at the age of 41 during the trial did little to save her, she went in for 20 years regardless. Then it was the Germans turn to put her on trial which gave her some reprieve from her cell. The German court imposed a second life sentence on her in January 1951 on the following charges which she had been found guilty off…. One count of attempted murder, Five counts of incitement to severe physical mistreatment of prisoners and, Two counts of physical mistreatment.
Illse Koch would never be released from custody in her life time, she served 20 years in Aichach prison ( situated in Bundesburg of Bavaria, just north East of Ausburg) and suicided by means of hanging herself on September 1, 1967at the age of 61.

Answer by purplepeace59
yes-the Beast of Belson, a female prison guard who did such things.

Answer by D S
Yes, it did happen. Lampshades and soap are documented facts, had not heard of purses and handbags.

Answer by ammianus
I don’t know about purses and handbags, but lampshades and furniture coverings from human skin is true.

I saw a documentary a few years back about children of the senior Nazi leaders,and they were interviewing Bormann’s son. He said that when he went round Himmler’s place to play with Himmler’s son Gudrun, there were lampshades and furniture coverings made of leather from human skin of dead Jews.The doc also mentioned a museum where these things are on display.

Human hair was used to make socks for U-Boat crews.

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