# Nazi human skin lampshades

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 26, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-human-skin-lampshades/548113 "2010-07-26T22:42:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-human-skin-lampshades/548113/101 "2017-02-14T20:29:22Z")

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Many years ago I went to a military collectables show. Someone there was displaying a pink leather book whose cover he claimed was made out of human skin by the Nazis. Of course he could have been lying.

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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-human-skin-lampshades/548113/102 "2017-02-14T21:25:44Z")

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> [@furryman](#):
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> Many years ago I went to a military collectables show. Someone there was displaying a pink leather book whose cover he claimed was made out of human skin by the Nazis. Of course he could have been lying.

Yes, he could, couldn’t he? And he’d have every reason to, either to boost his reputation as a collector or increase the item’s value if he was selling it. Without reliable provenance and documentation such claims are worthless. The Nazis did horrendous things enough in reality, we have no need to turn to fiction to brand them as monsters.

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**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-human-skin-lampshades/548113/103 "2017-02-14T23:53:29Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> See post 83. 😉

Wow … nin’ja’ed by two-and-a-half years … I need to get my eyeglass prescription checked …

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> **watchwolf** , I think you mean
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> [MacGuffin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin)

Spelting is overratted …

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-human-skin-lampshades/548113/104 "2018-03-27T15:54:11Z")

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Bumped.

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> PBS will air this again here on June 17 at 10pm. American Dopers, check your local listings.

And again on April 5 at 10pm.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-human-skin-lampshades/548113/105 "2018-03-28T01:27:53Z")

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As far as the soap claims go, no the Nazis didn’t actually produce any. But it wasn’t for lack of [trying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_made_from_human_corpses#Danzig_Anatomical_Institute).

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