In footage taken by American military photographers tasked by then-General Dwight Eisenhower to record what they saw as the army advanced into Germany in 1945, a large lampshade and many other ornaments reportedly made of human skin can be seen alongside shrunken heads of camp prisoners in Buchenwald, all of which were being displayed for ...

2010年9月30日 · After Hurricane Katrina pounded New Orleans, many unwelcome things surfaced—including a lampshade made of human skin. Veteran journalist Mark Jacobson was enlisted to trace its story.

2022年1月6日 · A man found a lamp at a local rummage sale that allegedly had a shade made out of human skin. The man paid only $35 for the lamp, but genetic testing of the shade cost $6,000. The shade was later confirmed to be made from human skin during the Holocaust.

2004年6月4日 · The film’s narration says that among the items found was “a lampshade, made of human skin, made at the request of an SS officer’s wife.” The press went nuts, and soon the lampshade became emblematic of Nazi barbarism.

2010年12月28日 · The lab determined that the shade was made of human skin. Subsequent tests by German and Israeli labs confirmed the finding. But because the skin was so dry, the labs could not tell the...

There are two notable reported instances of lampshades made from human skin. After World War II it was claimed that Nazis had made at least one lampshade from m...

2024年3月22日 · A forensic analysis confirmed that a small bedside lampshade from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany was “certainly” made of human skin, memorial officials said.

At the very right: a lamp with a shade allegedly made from human skin. At the left, two shrunken heads. This “documentary” and the objects, as well as an expert report by a pathologist of the U.S. Army of May 1946, served later as evidence during the Dachau show trial against the staff of the Buchenwald Camp, and during the trials of Ilse ...

2023年7月6日 · Ilse Koch tortured prisoners and ordered gloves and lampshades made of their skin. She organized orgies and forced male prisoners to rape female prisoners. The media worldwide nicknamed her the “Bitch of Buchenwald” since she committed most of her crimes while being a commandant at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

In the "Resistance Museum" exhibition that opened in the former inmates' canteen on 18 August 1954, the small shade of a bedside lamp was presented in "Desk 52" as a "lampshade made of human skin". Without any verification of its authenticity, the lampshade was also shown as a "lampshade made of human skin" in all subsequent permanent ...