Say I’m up in my Granny’s attic, looking around, and I come across a box with a few candles, a lampshade, and a poncho from the Second World War.
It turns out that the popular belief is true, and these were made from jews that were rendered down after death.
I now want to sell them, use them, etc.
Can I sell them?
Would Israel claim them?
What is the legal position on such materials, should they exist.
Uh … the question comes up often on this board. The consensus is, that while some Nazi camp commandants may have taken the institutionalized cruelty the Final Solution called for, and gone above and beyond the call – large amounts of lampshades, human fat candles and soaps, aren’t very likely. Some people claim they are, for neo-Nazi interest, or for Holocaust museum interest, or whoever the highest bidder is, but really it’s all too hard to verify for anyone to really care.
Someone recently in the news was trying to sell such items on E-bay, or some such online selling method – the items in question were reprocessed by himself, with added Nazi symbolizim, but then he reneged on their authenticity, and said he just used beef tallow and added the pro-Nazi symbolizim, or maybe he didn’t he didn’t really know - wink, wink. Once you Goggle news search for that story, and others, you’ll see where the value of these sorts of items stand. They’re really only good for provoking a blog posting.