Morality Question: If you could obtain one at a good price, would you own a Nazi lampshade made of Human skin?

What if it was defective and had a bellybutton on the front? could I return it?

Sorry, Darren, but the human skin lampshades are for real. Ed Gein has been the inspiration for films like Silence of the Lambs and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There are crime scene photos and plenty of physical evidence that he did in fact make all kinds of things using human skin-including lampshades. I do not know about the soap lady. I would have to look into that, but I do know of a book that I learned about and saw for myself while in Scotland, that is bound in the skin of a body farmer and aspiring surgeon.

Hello,

While I have a few pieces of Nazi memorabilia from a staff car flag to cigarette cards and albums, I could never own or display such a lamp. I realize that the skin had been part of a person once and I have some feeling and reverence for the dead. Such an article belongs in a historical museum and should never be displayed as art. Similarly I wouldn't own or display a tattooed head from a Melanesian oe someones skull that was fashionable in the 19th century etc.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

This question makes me feel quite-startling uncomfortable, because it is revoltingly nauseous. I do not wish to be impolite with you personally, because I am hoping that you are inquiring in all sincerity. yet this question is simply wrong, dead wrong. Pardon the impromptu pun. The human skin as you've refered to would logically be Jewish necrotic epidermal tissue. Many folk would inform you that the owner of such lampshade would be commonly known as a sick or demented individual. I assert that an owner of such lampshade is a deliberately-deleterious soul; a rancidly-rancorous soul ignorant of other folk feelings. It may not offend you, because you are not Jewish but what if it were your grandparent's skin made into a lampshade; would you mind if I purchased it then?

That's disgusting and disrespectful. The only place for such an item is in an appropriate museum. It is not to be gloated over by people who do not have a knowledge of recent history and who have no respect for the dead or for this persecuted race.

No, though I can't really say the purchase of one by someone else would be immoral. I would just think it a disgusting and morbid thing to own, and it definitely wouldn't be a possession to boast about. If I did ever acquire such a thing though, I would most likely store it away somewhere, taking it out only when the occasion presented itself for me to provide someone with an example of what hatred and disregard for human life can do.

Sorry dude. I sick in the head, but not THAT much. No. I couldn't buy or have one. When we lived in Germany (military posting) we saw the places that supplied the skin for things like that. If my name was Jeffrey Dahlmer I 'd love to have one to add ambiance while I was eating another human. Sound like an off beat question I would ask. Good one. Have a great weekend.

No, I don`t think I would . I think I would find it obnoxious altho usually Nazi memorabilia fascinates me.

But that is beyond the pale - a bridge too far. It would be like having the sad ghost of a gas-chamber victim in the house. Macabre.

Something is wrong for you to be playing with a situation like this. What if you were the tortured human being used as the lampshade. How dare you? You have absolutely no appreciation/respect for human life. And somehow this is a joke to you?

would LOVE to skin a Nazi and make a lampshade

would show it off with pride on the front lawn

for all the other little neo nazi wanna bes growing up in this world

let them know their fate for the choice they make

Never. If you're not a museum, you're sick if you own one of these. What possible motivation could you have for wanting to possess something like that? It is either overt racism, or sick fascination. Either way it is a disgrace. That is how I feel about it.