Scientists confirm: Nazis made people into soap
posted at 1:13 pm on October 6, 2006 by Allahpundit
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It had always been alleged, but they couldn’t prove it at the time due to the limits of forensic testing.
They can prove it now.
No matter how bad you think they were, they were worse.
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Isn’t that what President Bush has authorized at Gitmo? Oh wait a minute, the USA is allowing the prisoners to clean themselves with soap before sitting down to their specially prepared meal. My mistake.
The libs keep telling everyone what a Nazi Bushitler is. Too bad they have no education about what the Nazis were all about. Ah for the days of perspective, restraint, and reality in political discourse.
Mallard T. Drake on October 6, 2006 at 1:26 PM
And yet I saw signs in Union Square yesterday telling me that the Republicans are worse than Nazis.
Number 2 on October 6, 2006 at 1:29 PM
This is interesting…
BTW, does anyone know if Muslims have begun to eat Pork via genetically modified organisms, using Pig matter, that are not labeled?
ar_basin on October 6, 2006 at 1:39 PM
That is weird that the Nazis thought the Jews were lesser ,maybe an unclean race, and yet they make soap out of them. What could frame such evil?
Drtuddle on October 6, 2006 at 1:47 PM
Ilsa Koch comes to mind.
tommy1 on October 6, 2006 at 1:56 PM
Yes, they were evil beyond comprehenson, really.
Mr. Bingley on October 6, 2006 at 1:57 PM
Excellent question. Don’t have the answer, but some thoughts:
-people in Germany didn’t wake up one day and “yessiree, I think I’ll go kill me some Jews”. There was a long history of anti-Semitism in Europe, plus the post WWI economic woes of Germany were furtile ground for a charismatic leader to assuage people’s fears and woes with the image of an evil, powerful enemy–with a different religion no less.
-the thing about evil isn’t that it’s banal, but that it’s insidious. One day you expel Jews from universities, the next thing you know you’re washing yourself with some odd soap.
-there’s a large body of work that addresses the idea that the group or the crowd has less conscience than the individual (this was starkly illustrated in the Pinto gas tank embroglio)
-the key thing is not to look at Nazism and Hitler and cartoon it; regular people are capable of horrible things, if only sins of omission.
honora on October 6, 2006 at 1:58 PM
The libs repeated attempts to compare Bush with Hitler and Republicans with Nazis, beyond being amusing and annoying, poses one danger to our culture. The comparison does not elevate Bush to Hitler’s level of evil. Quite the opposite, it reduces the magnitude of the horrendous nature of Hitler and the Nazis. It creates a false reference point in people’s minds since President Bush obviously is nowhere near or should even be mentioned in the same sentence as Hitler. But, if people are not educated to the extremes of Hitler’s actions against humanity, they end up making these foolish comparisons.
If you are ever in Washington DC, pay a visit to the Holocaust museum. It is a bit of a downer, but you will come away with a better understanding of who Hitler was and how the human spirit eventually overcomes even the worst of nature.
Mallard T. Drake on October 6, 2006 at 2:00 PM
Mallard TD–You are so right. It sounds odd, but I get tired of people not giving Hitler the proper respect.
I’ve been to the H Museum a couple of times, the children’s section is especially well done.
honora on October 6, 2006 at 2:07 PM
They turned Jews into soap because using the remains of the “unclean” to remove filth from the body is poetic justice to a Nazi. They literally turned the very thing they claim was polluting their world into a thing of cleanliness.
Anyone who knows how sick the Nazi really were should not find it shocking at all. This is why we should be forceful when confronting fascism today.
Honora, who posted above, is right: evil is insidious.
Disturbing story.
Cary on October 6, 2006 at 2:14 PM
Probably, but GM is not Hitler and the Pinto had death rates from accidents similar to most compact cars of the time.
More here
kmcguire on October 6, 2006 at 2:26 PM
You should read “On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors” John diLaurien’s (sp?) of his time at GM and the Pinto story.
honora on October 6, 2006 at 2:32 PM
Let’s be clear about something. The Natzi’s were a political party. The Germans did the killing. The whole country per se was galvinized into killing Jews, Christians and anyone else they wanted. Bayer, you know the asprin folks, was the company that made Zyclone B cyanide pellets that were used to kill millions of people! The Holocaust was not caused by a handful of “Natzis”. It was cause by a climate of hate that had gone on for years in Europe and continues to do so. Now the Muslims are galvanizing that hate into action. They do not just want the Jews dead. They want all Western civilization destroyed! That makes the soap fact just another example of what hate and evil can do. If we don’t put the brakes on Muslim atrocities, they will make even what is discussed here seem tame.
JonR on October 6, 2006 at 2:34 PM
Sorry about the spelling of Nazi!
JonR on October 6, 2006 at 2:36 PM
I thought Zyklon B was made by a pesticide/chemical company–DeGuessa or something like that, that was held by IG Farben; Farben was the holding company for Bayer as well but didn’t think Bayer was the maker of Zyklon B? I could be mistaken.
honora on October 6, 2006 at 2:41 PM
JonR, if you have trouble spelling it, just look at some of the posters you will see at some of our more progressive rallys.
The correct spelling there appears to be Zionazi.
EFG on October 6, 2006 at 2:47 PM
Can one make soap out of pig fat? Hummmmmmm! Think of the possibilities!!!!!!!
GET SQUEALY CLEAN
WITH NEW
GIT-MO-CLEAN
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on October 6, 2006 at 2:58 PM
Honora,
You are right about Bayer being in an overall holding company.
JonR
JonR on October 6, 2006 at 3:21 PM
The party is irrelavant. They just push the ideas. It is the people that make the ideas fact.
When a person gives up individual thought, when a person stops looking criticly at what is happening around him/her and begins to follow the rest of the herd because it is easier, or becasue they are afraid, then that person is as guilty as the perpatrator.
We can not always recognize evil. We may not even be able to define evil. But when we do see it we have an obligation to stop it.
Now the catch 22 is, the Germans and the nazi’s beleived they were doing good.
Wyrd on October 6, 2006 at 4:10 PM
Wyrd,
I agree comletely with your statements about the obligation we all have to confront and eliminate evil.
I belive that the Germans and the Nazi party though they were doing what was best for them at the time. I don’t know if they thought it was “good” or not. However, we do know that the Islamofacists do think that murder and destruction is a valid instrument of their culture and religion. That is what makes them even more dangerous than the Germans in the ’30s and ’40s.
JonR
JonR on October 6, 2006 at 6:05 PM
Hi Jon,
I take a very small exception to that. I would say that it makes them equally dangerous and morally equivalent.
Turning people into soap, killing 6-million members of one ethnicity (half of those alive at the time) in camps, sadistic medical experiments… it’s hard to argue that the Nazis were somehow better.
I would say their ideologies and motivations were both evil. I don’t have any idea how to characterize one as necessarily more evil than the other; their goals are the same &8212; world domination, killing all Jews, and slavery for the rest of humanity.
Christoph on October 7, 2006 at 9:05 AM
Honora: “Farben was the holding company for Bayer as well but didn’t think Bayer was the maker of Zyklon B? I could be mistaken.”
JonR: “You are right about Bayer being in an overall holding company.”
Bayer has an intresting history, especially after WWI. Bayer’s assets, including their trademark, were confiscated in the United States after WWI and awarded to Sterling. The US company (Sterling, later Sterling Winthrop), of course, had nothing to do with Zyklon.
Interesting enough, Bayer AB reacquired the trademark and OTC product line when it purchased it from SmithKline Beecham in 1994.
So, “Bayer” is “Bayer” owned again.
georgej on October 8, 2006 at 5:38 AM
Not all Germans supported Hitler in his madness but opposition was oppressed by the Gestapo. Many Germans bullied with an accurate sense of fear at opposition to the Nazis.
The German people not did not fall lockstep behind Hitler and his ideas. There was much opposition that was systematically removed (killed, tortured, incarcarated) by at first the SA and then the Gestapo (State Secret Police). Source: History channel, story of the Gestapo.
The point is that the same thing is happening now with the Islamofacist. In Palestinian territories especially any opposition to their Islamofacist Ideology is killed and it is probable that fear is instilled to insure support with others that would provide opposition.
Brigitte Gabriel gives account at http://americancongressfortruth.com/activityreport.html of what happend to the Christians in Lebanon – and what we can expect in areas the Islamofacist gains control. Her two part interivew is worth viewing.
Europe is experiencing this type of Islamofacist repression now – the story of Hershi Ali, a member of the Dutch Parliment, is a good example.
The Islamofacist Gestapo is alive, well, and very active.
omegaram on October 8, 2006 at 12:14 PM
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