10 Sep 2024 2:53 pm
There were many falsities and even downright lies about what happened. I am actually curious about why this is so exaggerated when it was bad enough to begin with.
There once were stories about Jews being made into lampshades. This was patently false. There was one woman the prosecution attempted to link to the lampshades, but that was readily dismissed by prosecutors.
There was another silly story about making soap out of the fat of Jews. This was also debunked. Another outlier. You can't make soap from humans.
One of the more ridiculous stories concerned roller coasters dumping Jews into gas chambers
Book: Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler's Death Camps
"800 to 900 yards from the place where the ovens were, the prisoners were squeezed into little cars that ran on rails. In Auschwitz these cars had various dimensions and could hold up to 15 people. As soon as a car was loaded, it would be set in motion on an inclined plane that traveled at full speed down a corridor. At the end of the corridor there was a wall, and in the wall was the door to the oven. As soon as the car hit the wall, the door opened automatically, and the car would dip forward and pitch its cargo of living people into the oven. Right behind it came another car with another load and so on."
There once were stories about Jews being made into lampshades. This was patently false. There was one woman the prosecution attempted to link to the lampshades, but that was readily dismissed by prosecutors.
There was another silly story about making soap out of the fat of Jews. This was also debunked. Another outlier. You can't make soap from humans.
One of the more ridiculous stories concerned roller coasters dumping Jews into gas chambers
Book: Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler's Death Camps
"800 to 900 yards from the place where the ovens were, the prisoners were squeezed into little cars that ran on rails. In Auschwitz these cars had various dimensions and could hold up to 15 people. As soon as a car was loaded, it would be set in motion on an inclined plane that traveled at full speed down a corridor. At the end of the corridor there was a wall, and in the wall was the door to the oven. As soon as the car hit the wall, the door opened automatically, and the car would dip forward and pitch its cargo of living people into the oven. Right behind it came another car with another load and so on."