Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koch was the redhaired, sexually psychopathic "Bitch of Buchenwald," the Nazi concentration camp where more than 50,000 died. Inmates said that Use had men flogged for the pleasure it gave her, and collected human skin, preferably tattooed, for lampshades and bookbindings. Thirty other Germans had been convicted, with her, for Buchenwald's operation. In a routine review of sentences, twelve of her co-defendants had also received sentence reductions. But Use had been the most vivid of the defendants, and she had received the review board's biggest reprieve; Use became the focus of protest. From...
...Royall did not reveal it. Instead, he agreed that the evidence had proved that Use "encouraged, aided and participated" in Buchenwald's operation, but lamely justified the sentence reduction with: "There was no convincing evidence that she had selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed skins, or that she possessed any articles made of human skin...
...analgesics" (drugs that knock out pain without knocking out the patient) do their work is a mystery, too. Presumably they interfere with the pain messages in the nerves that run from the skin or interior organs through the brain...
Tucked in the rear of the book is a 1948 innovation -- a section headed "Strictly Extra-Curricular" and full of tips on appearance--"We know that beauty is only skin deep, but you don't have to look as though you lived only for things of the mind,"--and activities--"Eat where people don't mind your eating. In the far reaches of the library, potato chips sound like static on a 1932 radio...
...beat bad manners out of her skin for a year...