Answer 1

Previously this was dismissed as a holocaust hoax.
However recent evidence and investigations into the holocaust have shown that the claims are indeed true.

Evidence has been found by allied investigators that fat from the corpses of dead Jews were indeed used to make soap in Stutthof, a concentration camp. The experiments to convert human fat into soap were conducted by a Nazi officer called Dr. Rudolf Spanner. The soap was often used to clean autopsy rooms of Nazi experimentation morgues.

It is true about the buttons too. The Nazi's made buttons, bowls, goblets and so on out of human bone. They also used human skin to create lampshades, handbags and leather for chair coverings and book covers.

Ilse Koch, the wife of Karl-Otto Koch (the commandant in charge of the Auschwitz camp), collected skins of dead Jews. She would ride around Auschitwz to inspect prisoners and select any that she saw with distinctive tattoos. She would order the prisoner to be killed and the tattoo cut from his body, tanned and presented to her for a collection.

Himmler has alleged to have kept furniture in his castle made from the bones of Jews.

All the Nazi officers involved in experimenting with fashioning or collecting human parts from prisoners of war were tried and (the majority of them) executed by the allies for war crimes.

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Answer 2

NO, there was no Nazi policy to do either of these. There were isolated incidents and individuals who used the situation that the Nazis had created to carry out their personal perversions.

The Nazis can be blamed to creating the enviroment that allowed people to do inhuman things, but there was never any permission given for these types of things. Had it been shown to be financially viable there may have been a question of it, but frankly it is preposterous.

The answer is a clear 'no'.

One thing that the Nazis did do was to make felt out of human hair, this was because they made money out of it. (The use of human hair has been around for centuries)

No. but he used their hair for fuel and also took their valuables
While there was a rumor that Hitler was making soap using melted Jewish bodies, it is actually not correct. No jews were ever turned into soap. However, the rumors that the Germans had the ability to turn people into soap was used to scare prisoners.

Answer 3
(This answer is from an external source [via email] and is published with permission from the writer).

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The Nazis carried out many inhuman and appallingly ghastly acts against their Jewish (and other significant) prisoners, some of which the world are aware of (example: gassing) and some of which the world are not so aware of.
The Nazis carried out a wide range of experimental execution and torture measures and experimented a wide range of body disposal techniques.

At Auschwitz the Nazis practised disposing bodies by trying to melt them in large quantities of acid. The acid technique helped the Nazis by obscuring identities of their deceased prisoners. Other methods included burning, crushing and mass grave burial.
However these techniques required a lot of manpower and a lot of resources and they also had major downsides such as smell.

Now, the allegations that the Nazis made soap from the fat of the victims is a matter of debate. Indeed, making soap from the fat of deceased prisoners may be a smart method of bodily disposal by the Nazis and at the same time would have provided other uses such as cleaning and sanitation.

However there is very little evidence that this actually happened, but that does not mean we can dismiss the human soap allegations as false.
Let us bear in mind that before the Nazis surrendered they destroyed mountains of top secret documents and classified research papers including specimens.

Even without solid, documented proof we still have the gentle trickle of eyewitness accounts from freed prisoners and captured former Nazi guards, most whom have never met each other before. Of course, in modern society we demand solid proof in the form of evidence to back up eyewitness allegations. Thanks to the Nazi move to destroy their documents before the Allies and Soviets descended upon them, we don't have that evidence.

The case of using human remains for other purposes such as buttons, string and so on was indeed true of some extent, but was not practised widely. And Ilse Koch did indeed keep a collection of tattoos from deceased prisoners.

In 2010 a bar of alleged Nazi soap was imported to Canada from Europe. It was intercepted by authorities and tested in a forensic lab. However the Canadian authorities declared that the soap, which brandished a swastika, was fake and contained no human remains.
During an earlier investigation in 2006 a bar of Nazi soap was found in a former Nazi medical academy in Gdansk, Poland. Modern DNA analysis of the bar of soap indeed returned positive for human DNA and human tissue. The soap was used as evidence in a war crimes hearing against Nazi officials.

It should be noted that not all concentration camps are alleged to have practised producing soap from human remains. These allegations have only so far been collected from the Kaliningrad, Bydgoszcz and Stutthof camps.

Whether these allegations are true or not are still open for debate, we cannot accurately specify whether these allegations were true or not due to the lack of documented evidence. However we do have the DNA evidence from 2006 after finding that soap bar the Nazis forgot to destroy. The world is not as aware of these types of Nazi practices compared to, say, gassing.
The official verdict is that the investigations are still open, but the allegations are, thanks to the DNA evidence, looking closer to being true.
- Dr N. Rossol. Professor of history, University Of Essex, England.
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