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Originally Posted by Gabucino
Come on...
It's normal to get rid of people's hair to prevent a massive lice infestation (it always was, and is even today), which could (and did) lead to large-scale epidemic of typhus, which can (and did) cause hundreds and thousands of deaths ("During Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, more French soldiers died of typhus than were killed by the Russians." Also see camp photographs with bodies piled on each other.).
Using probably lice-infected hairmass for _any_ purpose that doesn't include heavyweight industrial deinfection and production is very contraproductive. Think about a lice infestation on an U-boot, oh and remember the "medical inspection of genitals" scene from Das Boot, hehe). All the 1944-45 allied infrastructural+strategic bombing of Germany made it really certain that nobody would even think of building a business on human hair, when the average food ration for a free german citizen was already way below bearable levels. |
And behold, let there be common sense. And there was. And it was good.