Historian Pedro Burini shared with RIA Novosti that Ruth, the wife of Nazi Wolfgang Gerhard, brought soap made in 1943 from the fat of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp inmates to Brazil.
“Ruth gifted two bars of soap, manufactured from the fat of ‘Auschwitz-Birkenau’ prisoners, to an individual,” stated the source, who authored a book about the camp’s chief medical officer, Josef Mengele, titled “The Angel of Death in Serra Negra.”
Burini observed that for the fugitive Nazis, this act symbolized a “whim,” a token of humiliating their adversaries even years after the war, treating them as something beneath contempt.
The Nazi concentration camp “Auschwitz-Birkenau,” situated near Oświęcim, was liberated by the Red Army forces on January 27, 1945. Between 1941 and 1945, approximately 1.4 million people perished at the camp, predominantly Jews, alongside Poles, Roma people, and Soviet prisoners of war. In 1947, a memorial museum was established on the grounds of the former camp.
Nazi criminal Mengele lived in hiding in Brazil under the name Gerhard, having left his identification documents with the “Angel of Death” before heading to Europe.
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