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Originally Posted by flakmonkey
Actually the lampshade thing was a real occurance and the creation of a real nasty bit of work called Aribert Heim a notorious concentration camp doctor (well at least according to a channel4 documantary i saw a while back).
Never heard of anything like this in connection to uboats though.
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As far as I am aware that object never existed. There are no photographs of such a thing, and it was never entered into evidence.
It was rumored that Ilse Koch made such objects from tattooed human skin, and shrunken human heads and tattooed human skin were found and presented as evidence, but no lampshade (nor was the skin found pierced in such a way that it could be used in a lampshade) was ever found.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Dachau.../IlseKoch.html
As for the person you mention, some witnesses claimed that he had made a human skin lampshade for the camp commandant, but such rumors were common in the camps along with the human soap one.
Back to the original topic, there are some letters dated in 1942 that suggests using victims hair in socks for u-boat men, but no evidence that it was ever actually carried out. There is evidence that human hair was shipped to certain companies, amounts totaling under 1 metric ton. If it was used it was probably used for industrial felt. No evidence has yet been found though (though it is impossible to prove the source of hair made objects).
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/dac...e-of-hair.html