Not to leave this hanging, here is a very short story of the Nazi human lampshades.

Like with the human soap story there is a small core of truth around which the layers of hype have gathered with time.

The story goes that in the Nazi concentration camps lampshades were made out of skin of people murdered for this purpose. Specifically such accusations against Ilse Koch are pretty (in)famous.

There is no credible evidence that Ilse Koch was engaged in such activities, nor is there credible evidence of such activities in the Nazi camps.

However, there is evidence that one such lampshade was made in 1941 for Karl-Otto Koch from the tattooed pieces of skin from Buchenwald’s pathology department. Since pieces of tattooed skin were routinely gathered in Buchenwald from the corpses of all prisoners (apparently for a proposed museum of criminality) there is no indication that they were specifically killed for this lampshade. The object was lost (probably destroyed) long before the end of the war. Karl-Otto Koch was prosecuted and then executed by the Nazis themselves.

buchenwald.de