The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans

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Germany, past and present

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/faust.html Faust legends

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/mythlinks.html Germanic myths and legends

http://www.scrapbookpages.com Remarkably complete, marginally scholarly account of concentration camps. Often updated. Recommended.

http://www.buchenwald.de/index_en.html Official website for Buchenwald Memorial.

http://www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de For information on neo-Nazi activity in the former GDR.

http://www.nsbm.org One of many National Socialist black metal music sites. For lyrics to Kommando Freisler’s hideous “In Belsen,” see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommando_Freisler.

Other Buchenwald information

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/buchenwald/diplomatic/georges-vanier-042745.html

http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/appendix-8-01.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYVn0hzcSs0 Murrow’s speech

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/Exhibits.html

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=5198

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=160 Color film of the Weimar march and shots of the lampshade

Ilse Koch

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine

Holocaust museums and information

http://www.yadvashem.org

http://college.usc.edu/vhi USC Shoah Foundation Institute

http://www.ushmm.org United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html Recently opened Red Cross Holocaust files

DNA and forensic examinations

http://www.bodetech.com

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/forensics.shtml

http://www.globaloptions.com

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/lombroso.html

Lampshade speculation, negative and positive

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2511/did-the-nazis-make-lampshades-out-of-human-skin

http://www.hlrecord.org/2.4462/books-bound-in-human-skin-lampshade-myth-1.579032

http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/appendix-5-03.html

Denier Bud’s videos

http://www.holocaustdenialvideos.com

New Orleans hoodoo

http://www.luckymojo.com/lucky-mojo-inventory.html

http://www.spellmaker.com/witch.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/07/10/findrelig.DTL

New Orleans Holocaust information

http://www.southerninstitute.info/holocaust_education/holocaust_survivor_testimony.html

Race politics in New Orleans

http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n6_v57/ai_13773324

http://www.davidduke.com/general/my-awakening-chapter-15-the-jewish-question-2_135.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6389/is_n4_v85/ai_n28697772/?tag=content;col1

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14976/14976-h/14976-h.htm

http://www.wireheading.com/robert-heath.html

http://www.southerninstitute.info/index.jsp

http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/index.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/uog-stm081106.php

New Orleans blogs

http://humidcity.com

http://neworleans.metblogs.com

http://www.yatpundit.com

http://neworleansmurderblog.blogspot.com

New Orleans cemetery theft

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20128078,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/16/us/new-orleans-grave-theft-nothing-s-sacred.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

Report on Jerusalem syndrome

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/176/1/86#BDY