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Article: Ken Kipperman and The Table of Horrors; Some of the worst things imaginable are gathering dust, forgotten, in Washington archives. What's behind one man's crusade to bring them to light?
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- The Washington Post
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- June 24, 2001
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KEN KIPPERMAN HANDS OVER THE FILE, apologizing.
"I have to warn you," he says. "What you're about to see is not
easy to look at. I'll start with the least offensive."
We are having lunch at the Old Ebbitt Grill. Sunlight pours into
an atrium filled with the noise of conversation and flowing water. At
a marble fountain nearby, streams shoot from the mouths of golden
lions. It is a strange setting for the task at hand.
The first photograph shows Kipperman holding a framed object. It
appears to be an ink drawing on parchment: a knight slaying a dragon
with an eagle overhead. "This is the largest tattooed human skin
found in Buchenwald," he says. "It was physical evidence in the
Nuremberg ...