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Himmler's furniture made from humans

Tables & chairs made from human skeletons in Himmler's office

Himmler's human-skin lampshade

Human skin copies of Mein Kampf for top Nazis

Jewish holocaust historian Gitta Sereny writes in her 1995 book
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth about an
experience Martin Adolf Bormann had as a child.

Martin Bormann's eldest child and Hitler's godchild

Sereny writes:

"... Himmler had acquired a property near Berchtesgaden for what he called his "second family"—his mistress, Hedwig Potthast, who had been his secretary, and their two children.

(It was here that, late in the war, fourteen-year-old Martin Bormann, Bormann's eldest son and Hitler's godchild, had an experience that would plant the seeds in him for what was eventually to become a very different life. He was, of course, a passionate young Nazi, immensely proud of his "strict but just" father and of his Führer—his family and Hitler's circle, significantly enough, called young Martin Krönzi, for Crown Prince.

Martin was sixty when we met first in 1990, when I attended a therapy group composed of children of high-ranking Nazis. A former priest who had become a teacher, he was a tall man with iron-grey cropped hair, an ascetic face and-although he could be very funny and both he and his wife, Cordula, love to laugh—an essentially grave mind. It was at this group meeting, part of a project initiated by the Israeli psychologist Dan Bar-On to help the children of Nazi "perpetrators" come to terms with their background, that Martin told and appalling story which we repeatedly discussed later.

That day in 1944, he was at home on the Berghof for holidays from his Bavarian boarding scholl at Feldafing. In the morning he was busy as usual during holidays, running errands for his father and Hitler, carrying films, photographs and maps to and fro, One afternoon, however, Frau Potthast invited his mother to bring him and his younger sister Eike to her new house for tea. He remembers the house as standing "in a wild sort of garden. She gave us chocolate and cake; it was nice."

Later, Frau Potthast said she would show them something interesting, a special collection Himmler kept in what had become his special lair. She led the way up to the attic.

"When she opened the door and we flocked in, we didn't understand what the objects in that room were—until she explained, quite scientifically, you know," Martin said, his voice now toneless. "It was tables and chairs made of parts of human bodies. There was a chair ... the seat was a human pelvis, the legs human legs-on human feet. And then she picked up a copy of Mein Kampf from a pile of them—all I could think was that my father had told me not to bother to read it as it had been outdated by events. [Speer had told me that Hitler had said exactly the same thing to him.] She showed us the cover-made of human skin, she said—and explained that the Dachau prisoners who produced it used the Rückenhaut, the skin of the back, to make it."

He said they fled, his mother pushing them ahead of her down the stairs. "Eike was terribly upset," he said, "and I was too." It hadn't helped them much, he said, when his mother, trying to calm them, told them that their father had refused to have the book in the house when Himmler had sent him a similar copy."

Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (1995)
by Gitta Sereny
Pages 310-311

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