MOERATOR NOTE: Just noting this thread was from 2010, with occasional later posts in 2013 until updated today (5 June 2014) in Post #80. That’s OK, we don’t mind new info being added to old topics, but we don’t want folks getting riled up and feeling they have to respond to something – and not realizing the "something’ is three years old. If you take my point. --CKDH
Thanks for the reminder, Moe.
It’s the voodoo, I tells ya!
According to Wikipedia:
Well, that’s an anticlimax!
But was it a Jewish cow?
No, it produced goy milk.
Actually while in Viet Nam I knew several guys who had necklaces of human ears they’d collected from their "kills.’ Don’t see human skin lampshades a lot different.
In 1972 while my father was stationed in Germany we the family went to visit Berlin. At the time there were numerous museums on the west side of the wall and we visited several of them.
There were many photos of stuff like piles of eye glasses piled up about as high as a van, and gold from teeth enough to fill a bathtub.
Quite clear in my memory were photos of lamp shades made with human skin.
A photo can not tell you what a lampshade is made of.
It was a b&w photo of a small candlestick-type lamp with a shade about 6" in diameter. The caption said something like “shade made from human skin.”
These were museums in west Berlin and they showed some rather gruesome images of the death camps and Nazi atrocities. Across the street you could see the Berlin wall; I still have the piece of cinder block that I picked up off the ground from the base of the wall.
In my mind there is no doubt the Nazis made lamp shades from human skin.
None of that refutes what I said in post #90. A caption isn’t evidence of anything other than the caption writer’s opinion.
PBS will air this again here on June 17 at 10pm. American Dopers, check your local listings.
Heh, interesting. I’ll try and check it out.
My understanding is that, while the making into soap and human lampshades etc. may be nearly entirely mythology, it was mythology at least initially spread by the Nazis themselves - as a way of terrifying/dehumanizing their victims.
Since this thread is bumped, I’ll add this: the book “The tunnel” by Andre Lacaze mentions human lampshades on several occasions. Apparently the human skin was used only if it was heavily (and artistically) tattooed. It was written by a French journalist while he was in Loibl-Pass (a sister-camp of Mathausen). Check out the book, it’s well worth reading. The author claims “everything in book is true up to the smallest detail” save for the names.
Bumped because Cecil’s column is back on the front page.
So, since there is no proof of human lampshades, the entire Holocaust narrative is a lie, right? </holocaust denier>
The Nazi Zombie thread that will never die …
I’ve read through the link in the final postscript and found it well written, entertaining and full of thematic elements from a Jew raised in the 1950’s America somewhat insulated from the horrors of the Holocaust … and for that alone it is worth reading … just a thin slice of Americana that speaks to what it means to be a New Worlder …
The plot-line fails because (spoiler used to hide spoilers):
The ordinary evidence only leads to the ordinary conclusion the skin was from some hapless New Orleaner … the results from some voodoo ritual rather than yet more evidence of European atrocities against the Jews … I’m fine with using the lampshade as a McGruffen here because … … the tale is worth telling … and worth reading … insight that maybe has been lost over the years …
See post 83. 
watchwolf, I think you mean