Reason Why the Nazis take the hair of their victims in the camps

Dreadful, horrible question to ask, yet cold, cold, cruel logic provides the answer. Nazis were gathering hair of the victims not as a piece of an individual person but as something useful, as a commodity. In simple terms, they did not even want to squander anything, including the physical remains of people they were killing.

Germany was engaged in a great war, the great war and the government was willing to exhaust all the possible resources. To the Nazis, the hair removed off the heads of the victims was nothing more than raw material such as wool or perhaps animal fur. They used the death camps like their factories and the hair was a commodity.

They would wash the hair, disinfect the hair and stuff it into enormous bundles very tight. These were large and hefty packages they referred to as bales. These bales would be taken out of the camps and exported to German firms.

What was the hair used for?

It was primarily used to manufacture industrial felt. This is a heavyweight, very tough and durable fabric. This was cloth used to provide the war machine in Germany. They provided their soldiers with things such as warm socks and mittens, particularly those soldiers who were freezing in the Eastern Front. They also applied it in padding, or stuffing of mattresses, and insulation of their U-boats (submarines).

This was the ultimate disrespect practice. It made a part of a human being a rather inexpensive and ordinary object, just to assist their war effort. They robbed the lives of their victims, and they even robbed their bodies. Continue reading