Human hair usd on u-boats

[KING111]

Is it true that the mattress and pillows
On the submarines
And even their socks were made from
Human hair taken from the
Concentration camps

[Sailor Steve]

Don't think so, but of course I don't know for sure.

Could you please not use that black font? Those of us using the SmartDark screen can't read it.

[NeonSamurai]

No it is not true according to any accredited research I am aware of. Almost all of the holocaust stories of that nature are false such as human skin lampshades, soap made from human fat being mass produced (there is some evidence some was made in a lab though), socks and stuff made from hair, etc.

Most of the rest of it though is real, with archeological evidence to back it up, and the numbers of those murdered in the various camps, and "special actions" is by most genuine research fairly valid. It is also true that the ash of incinerated victims was used as fertilizer for the local farms, and that personal objects, gold teeth, hair, etc was collected and reused, though I am not aware of the hair being used for anything.

[flakmonkey]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

No it is not true according to any accredited research I am aware of. Almost all of the holocaust stories of that nature are false such as human skin lampshades, soap made from human fat being mass produced (there is some evidence some was made in a lab though), socks and stuff made from hair, etc.

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.

[NeonSamurai]

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.

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

[ppk]

As far as I know most u-boat men were not nazis but straight up sailors serving their country.... So I can hardly imagine them sleeping on packs of human hair. I hope this is not true.