Criminal biologist Benecke shares research results: Lampshade from Buchenwald concentration camp is made of human skin. Final laboratory tests are ongoing in two other cases.
This is “especially important in times of right-wing shift and historical revisionism,” says the director of the memorials foundation. The skin of tattooed prisoners in particular was taken from the corpses, sometimes tanned and processed into everyday objects. The items were kept as evidence after the camp was liberated in April 1945.