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The idea that the Germans turned their victims into soap originated in fact in the generation before the Holocaust in a fearful rumor that began to circulate at the end of World War I. As the economic situation of Wilhelmine Germany became desperate and POW along with Germans began to starve, rumors began to circulate that the Kaiser’s regime was rendering the bodies of Belgian and other prisoners of war to make soap.
The idea that the Germans turned their victims into soap originated in fact in the generation before the Holocaust in a fearful rumor that began to circulate at the end of World War I. As the economic situation of Wilhelmine Germany became desperate and POW along with Germans began to starve, rumors began to circulate that the Kaiser’s regime was rendering the bodies of Belgian and other prisoners of war to make soap.
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After all, Germany was commonly regarded as a great industrial power with a particular talent for industrial chemistry, ranging from artificial fertilizer to poison gas. This atrocity story was then picked up in the 1920s, as part of the self pitying imaginary of the German far right. So that when the invasion of Poland began in 1939 it was German troops who took to terrorizing both Poles and Jews they encountered with the jocular taunt that now they really were going to turn them into soap. The story spread rapidly around Poland in 1942 and reached the West where it was investigated by Rabbi Wise, which in turn triggered Himmler into his own enquiries to establish that no such activity was in fact taking place in the SS system.
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