And behold, let there be common sense. And there was. And it was good.

Except for the slight problem that the Nazi's were stockpiling the stuff in the camps. I mean why on earth would they keep the hair if it was infected? Those camps also had the facilities to kill off lice and other stuff in the shaved hair (and clothes and other things they stole from the people they killed) like Zyclon-B which they regularly used for the delousing of objects (along with killing people). Besides the fact that lice would not survive the felting process anyhow.

I am still doubtful that hair from concentration camps were used in the making of socks, in spite of the letter I linked, due to the lack of any further evidence. I am however less doubtful of at least some of that hair being used in industrial felting (there are surviving records of human hair being shipped from certain death/concentration camps to furrier companies which totaled a bit under a metric ton).

Okay IMHO let's close this OT thread with the actual facts.

I can see only one rational explanation: they didn't.

Take Treblinka, which was utterly destroyed and dismantled, its existence is based on contradicting survivor reports (like the only water well in the middle of the alleged exterminational area - Arad: Op.Reinhard camps; page 39).

And see the "hairy" Auschwitz, where "29 of the 35 storerooms have been burned down. In six of the remaining ones, the liberators found the camp's legacy: 368,820 men's suits, 836,255 women's coats and dresses, 5,525 pairs of women's shoes, 13,964 carpets... ... and in the tannery the Soviet investigation commission found seven tons of hair.

Here's what it looks like (from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum):

http://gabucino.be/picz/hairmadness.jpg

In this perfectly aligned scene of actors, I mean soldiers, all standing in the right spot to make everything visible, this guy even goes over the top and shows the camera (camera!) where hair can be usually found on the humans, because someone may not know:

http://gabucino.be/picz/hairmadness02.jpg

Himmler decides to dismantle the installations on 1944 November 25 (Raul Hillberg: Destr. of European Jews, page 980), and the processes begin. No hurry there, because the camp is still allegedly operational in January 17 when soviet artillery was already audible. So they didn't just forget the evidence during a 'quick evacuation'.

The germans went to great lengths to totally destroy Treblinka, not even use the term "Vergasungskeller" in written text anywhere, but accidently left several tons of highly flammable clothes and hair completely intact ... Or so the famous soviet inspectors say, long time known for their sense of absolute truth, professional courtesy, and the complete lack of idealistic and political influence.

Not that I don't believe in the HoCa, I do. I really do. I said I do! ... DON'T TAZE ME BRO'!!! *bzzt*

Suuure Gabucino... it's all just one big lie to make the Nazis look bad. :roll:
Anyways why is this thread even in the SHIII game forum?

What a disgusting attitude and belief.

@ gabucino:
no need for believing, there is evidence enough.

I'd rather sail bare-footed than in socks made of human hair ......
can't imagine the u-boatmen were attracted to this idea either.

There is no need for you to get personal, don't do that.

For crying out loud, isn't this topic dead yet?! Let me finish it off, then. It's Christmas Eve!

Anyone who knows how socks are manufactured could have debunked this story in seconds. One of my ex-girlfriends was into knitting, so I learned a few things from her.

1) Socks -- the kind for real-world use by modern people, are not made from felt, they are knitted from yarn.
2) Yarn can be spun from many sorts of fibers, but some work better than others. My GF sometimes used her dog's hair (it had a wooly texture). Human hair is particularly hard to work with because it's slippery and, in bulk, lacks uniformity of length & texture. If it were practical to use, hairdressers everywhere would be selling the cuttings from their floors.
3) Any industry using vast amounts of human hair to make yarn would not be a secret for long. And the Final Solution was meant to be kept low-profile.
4) A clothing shortage can be remedied in other ways, for ex., get crewmen to bring their own socks from home. (In fact U-boat men did wear civvies on board.) In real desperation, confiscate ready-made socks from prisoners or civilians in occupied countries. Wash thoroughly and re-use.

It stands to reason that someone would have preserved physical evidence, if any existed. Extraordinary claims such as this require extraordinary evidence. From what I can tell, there is more compelling evidence for the existence of UFOs than for human-hair socks! Are we done yet?

Happy Christmas,
Wayne

Get over it.

:har:

It could hardly be called antisemitic, as it had no problems with arabs, ethiopeans, assyrians, or other semitic people. :sunny:

Hummmm I think I'm closing this thread before someone manages to get an infraction on Xmas day :88) It is anyway not an appropiate subject of discussion for this forum, nor for this part of the year, don't you guys think so?