We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, when it was woven into special fittings for gaskets.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker describes harvesting hair from victims after extermination to be used in factories.
- In plain terms
- Hair from murdered women was collected and sent to factories for industrial use.
- What can you take from it?
- Victims were treated as resources even after death.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does industrialization affect morality?
- What does this say about the value of life?
Another view
The description reduces human remains to raw material.
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