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Polish Study Confirms Nazis Made Soap from Human Bodies.

By AFP

Poland's Nazi German occupiers used "substances" from the bodies of concentration camp prisoners to make soap, a study carried out by Poland's National Remembrance Institute (IPN) to counter the arguments of negationists showed Friday.

"We have determined that, without the shadow of a doubt, soap was produced using substances obtained from human bodies at the anatomical institute of the Medical Academy of Danzig, led by Professor Rudolf Spanner," Paulina Szumera of the IPN told AFP. Danzig is the German name for the Polish city of Gdansk.

"We launched our investigation to still the voices denying that this ever happened," she said.

For the IPN probe, ...

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