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HISTORY The claim that Germans used the fat from human corpses to make products was already made by the admitted that the "corpse factory" story had been a lie.Arthur Ponsonby, ''Falsehood in Wartime'' (New York: 1929), pp. 102, 111-112 The claim resurfaced very early during World War II, so early that it almost certainly was not true. However, contemporary jokes, threats, rumors and insults show beyond a doubt that many people thought that it was at least believable. The main support for this belief was found in the abbreviation "RIF" which was imprinted on most pieces of soap available in Germany during WWII. It was interpreted as "Reines Jüdisches Fett" (pure Jewish fat) while, in fact, the abbreviation stood for "Reichsstelle für industrielle Fettversorgung" (National Center for Industrial Fat Provisioning). Later, when human bodies were indeed being plundered for products (hair for felt and insulation, for example), there are indications that some German scientists experimented with making soap from human fat. Professor Rudolf Spanner produced somewhere between 10 and 100 kg of soap from corpses from the mental hospital in , 2007 . Despite the aforementioned case, there is no evidence for wide-spread use of soap made of human fat, Jewish or otherwise, in Nazi Germany. In fact, the experiments in , 2006 . Mainstream scholars of , 1990 , p. 19."A Holocaust Belief Cleared Up," ''Chicago Tribune'', April 25 , 1990 . Facsimile in: Ganpac Brief, June 1990, p. 8. POPULAR CULTURE In the movie Fight Club , soap is made from stolen fat from liposuctions, and sold to oblivious customers. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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