4 Responses to FACT:The Nazis Made Lampshades from Dead Human Beings,Insurance Companies

1. sadlyyes August 19th, 2009 at 11:56 am «

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2. sadlyyes August 19th, 2009 at 12:12 pm «

   sad story….death by spreadsheet

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3. bluebutterfly August 20th, 2009 at 1:21 am «

   Not a fact.
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   “Occasionally you hear about human-skin lampshades in private collections. I won’t claim to have surveyed the field, but I did speak to Norm Sauer, a professor of forensic anthropology at Michigan State University. Professor Sauer was part of a team of experts that a few years ago examined a number of alleged human souvenirs that had been donated to the Holocaust Memorial Center, now located in Farmington Hills, MI. Among the items were a lampshade (and it really was a lampshade, consisting of panels on a wire frame), two chess sets, and a bar of soap, along with some collections of ashes, bone fragments, and so on. Although some of the bone fragments did appear to be human, most and possibly all of the household objects were not. The chess sets were made of animal but not human bone; the lampshade possibly was deer or goat but not human skin. Tests of the soap were inconclusive. “

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   “The most famous accusation against Ilse Koch was that she had selected inmates with interesting tattoos to be killed so that their skins could be made into lampshades for her home.

   She was tried by a war crimes tribunal and sentenced to a life term in 1947. Prosecuting her was future U.S. Court of Claims Judge Robert L. Kunzig, shown seated in the lower right corner of the picture from the tribunal above. Koch was charged with “participating in a criminal plan for aiding, abetting and participating in the murders at Buchenwald.” In 1947, an American military tribunal found Koch guilty and sentenced her to life-imprisonment.

   After serving a mere two years, General Lucius Clay, the interim military governor of the American zone in Germany, issued her pardon. Due to international condemnation, however, Koch was re-arrested in 1949 and tried before a West German court for instigation to murder in 135 cases. She was sentenced to life-imprisonment on January 15, 1951.

   She committed suicide by hanging herself at Aichach women’s prison on September 1, 1967. She was sixty years old. “

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch
4. bluebutterfly August 20th, 2009 at 1:26 am «

   “The lampshade and tattooed-skin charges were made against Ilse Koch, dubbed by journalists the “Bitch of Buchenwald,” who was reported to have furnished her house with objects manufactured from the tanned hides of luckless inmates. But General Lucius Clay, military governor of the U.S. zone of occupied Germany, who reviewed her case in 1948, told his superiors in Washington: “There is no convincing evidence that she [Ilse Koch] selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed skins or that she possessed any articles made of human skin.” In an interview General Clay gave years later, he stated about the material for the infamous lampshades: “Well, it turned out actually that it was goat flesh. But at the trial it was still human flesh. It was almost impossible for her to have gotten a fair trial.”

   Dodd claims that SS Judge Konrad Morgan, saw a shrunken head, saw the tattooed skin, and saw a human skin lampshade. But, explains Dodd, Morgen simply didn’t prosecute Koch for these offenses. Dodd says this to protect his famous presentation of a head and skin in the Nuremberg courtroom; and to hedge against the logic that the skin, shrunken heads, and lampshades might have come up in a trial by the Nazis against Karl Koch. And Dodd isn’t going to be “called” on that because the Americans have SS Judge Konrad Morgen imprisoned at Dachau. It will be a months of delay before the German lawyers are finally able to find Morgen so that he can testify. Ideally, Dodd wanted Morgen to take the stand and say all this himself and tried to get him to do so. In David Irving’s free online book Nuremberg, The Last Battle, page 223, we read how Konrad Morgen felt about this:

   “But he (Konrad Morgen) refused to give perjured testimony at Nuremberg to the effect that Ilse Koch, widow of the commandant hanged by the S.S., had made lampshades out of human skin. ‘That was a legend,’ he said: ‘totally untrue. The Americans almost killed me,’ recalled Morgen. ‘They threatened three times to turn me over to the Russians or French or Poles.’”

   and here is Irving’s source: Note 492. Transcript of John Toland’s interview with Konrad Morgen, attorney, Frankfurt, Oct 25, 1971. (Roosevelt Library, John Toland papers, box 53). For Morgen’s Nuremberg testimony see IMT, Aug 7-8, 1946, pages 488-515 Nazi Shrunken Heads “

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