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...come charges that Schaeffler's kin profited from Hitler's gassing of Jews in Auschwitz. Jacek Lachendro, deputy director of the Auschwitz Museum's research department, told Spiegel TV, a German program associated with the weekly newsmagazine, that bales of human hair, which are still on exhibit in the Auschwitz Museum, were found at a factory in Kietrz, Poland, at the end of World War II. The hair, allegedly from victims gassed at the infamous concentration camp, was supposedly used to manufacture upholstery and carpets. The factory's name was Teppichfabrik G. Schoeffler AG. "Our historians say Schoeffler is Schaeffler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Company Seeking Bailout Is Tied to Auschwitz | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Lachendro says tests conducted on the hair turned up traces of Zyklon B, the deadly pesticide used to gas Auschwitz prisoners. Lachendro presented the Spiegel TV reporters with a bale of cloth that he said was made from human hair. He said former workers at the alleged Schaeffler factory in Kietrz testified that at least two train-car loads of human hair were delivered to the factory from Auschwitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Company Seeking Bailout Is Tied to Auschwitz | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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