"The natural cosmetics company Weleda supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, resulting in the agonising deaths of prisoners, a historian specialising in Nazi Germany has claimed. Weleda, founded 104 years ago and known worldwide for its holistic remedies, sourced large quantities of medicinal herbs during the Nazi era from an agricultural plantation overseen by the SS in Dachau, southern Germany, according to a major report by Anne Sudrow commissioned by the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site."
"In return, the company provided the camp with a supposedly anti-frost cream it had developed as a protection against hypothermia, Sudrow's 700-page, two-volume study says. The cream was intended for the use of soldiers on the frontline, but Sigmund Rascher, an SS doctor, used the product on prisoners at Dachau between August 1942 and May 1943, the report alleges."
"The report claims that between 80 and 90 prisoners out of the 280 to 300 to whom the cream was applied are believed to have died as a result of the experiments, in which they were kept in freezing conditions baths of water containing blocks of ice for hours on end."
Weleda supplied a skin cream to Dachau and sourced large quantities of medicinal herbs from an SS-run agricultural plantation there during the Nazi era. The cream was developed as an anti-frost protection against hypothermia for frontline soldiers. SS doctor Sigmund Rascher applied the product to prisoners at Dachau between August 1942 and May 1943. Between 280 and 300 prisoners received the treatment and an estimated 80 to 90 are believed to have died. The experiments subjected prisoners to freezing conditions, including prolonged baths of water with blocks of ice. Weleda has promised a complete clarification of its history.
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