re: #97 Alexzander

I saw some holocaust denial clip on youtube a couple months ago - cant remember the name but it was a whole series of claims. But the one I’ve been meaning to research myself was something about lamp shades made out of human skin by the Nazi’s, as well as shrunken heads. The video claimed that these were actually artifacts from other parts of the world or just completely made up - and that this was part of an attempt to demonize Germany after the war. Have you heard about that, and is that a common story in holocaust denial circles?

Yeah, I know that video, it’s by my old nemesis “denierbud” aka “Carto’s Cutlass Supreme” at CODOH forum (I and my friends debunked a whole 30-part YT movie he made about Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor).

The story with the shrunken heads and lampshades (as well as human soap) is more of a mountain made of a mole hill. It doesn’t really prove anything about the Nazi regime as a whole, because even for the Nazis it was an aberration (I mean, how many Japanese skulls were taken as souvenirs by the US soldiers, but does that prove anything?). Let’s be frank - it was used for the propaganda purposes because it had a great effect at that time. In reality, there was a single lampshade that was given to Koch as a gift IIRC around 1941 (acc. to the museum site), and there were samples of skin with tattoos from the pathology lab, but the claims that prisoners were killed to make lampshades out of them are spurious upon analysis. The shrunken head presented at Nuremberg might have been real, and we do know that several such artifacts were produced in Nazi pathology labs (as we know from a Nazi document forbidding the making of such artifacts), but again, I’m not sure what this is supposed to prove.