1. A chemist by profession, he also reported making soap from human fat on orders of the concentration camp authorities. 2. A recipe for making soap from fat was found in the Institute of Hygiene, but, Black said, it did not specifically refer to using human fat. 3. Human fat, scorned and despised and ruthlessly vacuumed from bellies and backsides by liposuction, may have a redeeming feature after all. 4. It includes bloody fights, grisly touches, sexual situations and nudity, profanity and assorted intentional gross-out shocks, including the rendering of human fat into soap. 5. It is made of human fat, boiled down from the remains of some of the millions killed by the Nazis. 6. It gleefully offers gross-out scenes, such as one that has Norton splattered by a bag of human fat, filched from a liposuction clinic. 7. The oil also has the same radiation density as human fat and can therefore be penetrated by X-rays used for cancer detection, LipoMatrix said. 8. The recipe calls for fat, but does not refer to human fat, the museum says. 9. Scientists say human fat may be a potential source of stem cells, a breakthrough that could lead to a cure for numerous illnesses. |