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Old 02-18-2015, 10:17 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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Well more like Buffalo Bob.

But this ne was real
During WWII there was a woman known as the Witch of Buchenwald or the Beast of Buchenwald. Her name was Ilse Koch. She took the tattooed skin off dead people and made things out of it. She was also one bug s**t crazy woman.

Here is some light reading for you.
Ilse Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
People believe anything about the Third Reich. They certainly never trouble themselves about evidence. German courts at that time were under the thumb of what we might call unsavory outside influences.

Where's the lampshade?
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Old 02-19-2015, 09:34 PM
 
Location: Riverside Ca
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People believe anything about the Third Reich. They certainly never trouble themselves about evidence. German courts at that time were under the thumb of what we might call unsavory outside influences.

Where's the lampshade?

So you're saying she's innocent and made into a scapegoat?
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Old 02-20-2015, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Theres actually a TV show called "Oddities" where they sell just this kind of thing. I think its on Netflix.
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Old 02-28-2015, 07:43 PM
 
Location: Twilight Zone
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There are some human flesh-bound books at the Mütter Museum in Philly. Often they were made from patient's "donations" to their doctors. I highly recommend the museum for all sorts of interesting reasons.
Thanks, Orange. Now that you mentioned that Museum, it made me recall seeing it on a documentary program about the bizarre. As I recall, the Museum also includes an exhibit on the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng. Sideshow oddities such as those Siamese Twins is one of my main interests. In fact, my all-time favorite film is Tod Browning's Freaks which was notable for using actual, real-life freaks. I wonder if anybody else here has seen that film. Originally banned in some towns, the film has now become a classic.
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Old 03-08-2015, 01:32 AM
 
Location: Twilight Zone
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Violet and Daisy Hilton, the true-life Conjoined Twins who appeared in the aforementioned Freaks film, also appeared again in the film, Chained For Life.
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Old 03-08-2015, 01:38 AM
 
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My high school principal served as a guard for a while, on that Nazi woman. she existed and she did it.
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Old 03-14-2015, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Twilight Zone
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When I introduced the Siamese-Twins and other such human-oddities, I wondered about collectibles from those true-life sideshows. So far, I have just books about their biographies. But what other collectibles are available?
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Old 03-14-2015, 11:28 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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What would you like to own? If we know we can suggest other objets that we may have seen.

I'm curious about something. What price did the lampshade bring? Had it been authnticated?

Do you like weapons? I've seen Chinese beheading swords on ebay.
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Old 03-19-2015, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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Members of Norwegian units of the Waffen SS collected the boiled skulls of Bolsheviks as trophies. I suspect that those would be almost impossible to find, but something similar is available. There's a large variety on ebay.

Real Genuine Articulated Human Skull | eBay
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Old 03-19-2015, 01:10 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Speaking of "dark" artifacts. I have 4 Nazi medals that my grandfather brought back from WW2. They were off of soldiers that he personally killed, or that his unit killed. I have them in a display box in my office. I usually leave off the "dead people" part of the story when people ask about them. I had one guy try to tell me they were fake and that I must have been gipped when I bought them, I had to explain it to him and he was pretty quiet the rest of the night.
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