Posted on 10/06/2006 9:57:16 AM PDT by lizol
Tests show that Nazis used human remains to make soap
Warsaw, Poland
06 October 2006 04:41
The Nazis used human fat to make soap during World War II in a Nazi German medical academy located in what is now the Polish Baltic sea port city of Gdansk, Polish war crimes prosecutors confirmed on Friday, pointing to new laboratory tests.
Officials with Poland's Institute for National Remembrance (IPN) based their findings on a laboratory analysis of a piece of soap found in 1945 in the medical academy in Gdansk run by Nazi German Professor Rudolf Spanner.
A new laboratory analysis of the soap revealed human fat was one of its components, spokesperson for the Gdansk branch of the IPN, Paulina Szumera, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in a telephone interview on Friday.
Commissioned by the IPN, Professor Andrzej Stolyhwo of the Warsaw Agricultural University found human tissue in the soap.
The piece of soap was used as evidence in the post-WWII Nuremburg Trials where prominent German Nazis were prosecuted for crimes against humanity. At the time, prosecutors lacked the technology to determine whether the soap contained human tissue.
Human remains used to make the soap were believed to have been brought from Kaliningrad, Bydgoszcz and the Stutthof Nazi German concentration camp located about 30 from Gdansk.
The IPN investigation found that the soap in question produced by Professor Spanner was used to clean operating and autopsy rooms.
I thought this was pretty common knowledge.
...and human skin for lampshades..........
It is to anyone who was brought up with a proper education. To those who were brought up in today's history-lax education environment, I doubt they'd ever heard of this stuff.
Thinking of my own fat being rendered and made into soap is really icky!
“Queeg deserved better at my hands. I owed him a favor, don’t you see? He stopped Hermann Goering from washing his fat behind with my mother.”— Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny.
Oh well -
Maybe the novelty is in finding an actual piece of the soap from that era that could be analyzed for its content.
Jeez, Where did you all think soap came from?
Roosevelts fault. Oh wait, he was a Democrat, you can`t say that. Eisenhowers fault, he was a Republican.
If Moonbats ran Roosevelt's party. The headline might read:
Democrats applaude Nazi efforts to make ecologically friendly soap.
but we knew this.
The "news" is that they have no verified it to be true, in at least once instance. It's a science story, really.
Soylent Green is people!
now
What always bothers me with these World War II articles is that whenever evil is mentioned it is always blamed on the Nazis, never the German people. The Nazi party was a policical party of GERMANS.
Nazis = Germans
"Irish Spring is People!"
Oh Dear God.
I have never heard of this. Just when I thought the Nazi's couldn't get any sicker!?!
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