HUMAN SKIN
ERSATZ LEATHER GOODS (Ree. 12.26 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 4. A concentration camp in whicli was found ersatz leather goods made from human skin was described by an American officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward York, of San Antonia, in an interview with the correspondent of the Associated Press in Warsaw. Colonel York said he visited the human gristmill in the heart of Gdansk, in which there was a group of buildings behind five-foot walls. There were long aluminium vats which were steam pressed and which held 400 gallons of liquid. Alongside there were recipes on the wall descrlbing how the long part of human flesh was, to be cooked, and how to extract fats, for soapmaking. Some vats still contained torsoes, legs and arms. Polish investigators were convinced that the scheme for making soap and other products was conceived by two German doctors.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 47, 5 December 1945, Page 4
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