Geschichtsrevisionisten bezweifeln, dass die SS im KZ Buchenwald aus menschlicher Haut Gegenstände fertigen ließ. Die Gedenkstättenstiftung hat deshalb einige dieser Exponate untersuchen lassen.
The deathbed confession of James Allen, a nineteenth-century highwayman in Massachusetts. He requested a copy of his printed memoirs be bound in his skin and gifted to John Fenno, a man who had resisted Allen’s attempt to rob him; it is the only known anthropodermic book bound with the consent of its source. Before being bequeathed to the Athenæum, Fenno’s copy was reportedly kept in the family home and used to spank his children.
Um den Kindern den Arsch zu versohlen.