Documents on the allegation about lampshades made from human skin     Introduction: parallel with the legend about Nazi factories boiling down corpses of their victims to manufacture human soap the story gained currency, thanks to the war crimes trials, that Nazi camp staff had made lampshades from human skins of their victims.

Index   Use of human skin in French Revolution: a gruesome note from a correspondent American interrogators tried coercing SS judge Konrad Morgen into admitting truth of the legend. He refused Present German authorities display "human skin" lampshades at former Nazi (and Communist East German) Sachsenhausen concentration camp site (with photo) Finding of Ilse Koch's leather-bound family photo albums in National Archives, Washington

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