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Today as interesting tidbit: despite the misconception that the Nazis kept the skulls of concentration camp inmates as trophies, this is actually false and instead a great American tradition. The well known shrunken heads were part of US psy ops propaganda and were most likely gotten from a museu/private collector with the plate removed. After appearing in Dachau, they completely disappeared as evidence in any war crimes trial and have never been seen since. The hair of camp inmates was always kept short due to lice and the accompanying typhus and other epidemics.
Taking heads or skulls as trophy was quite uncommon in Nazi Germany, little documentation of such exists.
Less known is that the Americans actually did consider their enemies to be subhuman as well and were avid collectors of Japanese skulls. Plenty of documentation and pictures of such are available:
The above image even made it to Time magazine in 1944:
I don't know of any pictures or credible sources of German soldiers boiling the flesh off Russian skulls.
Taking heads or skulls as trophy was quite uncommon in Nazi Germany, little documentation of such exists.
Less known is that the Americans actually did consider their enemies to be subhuman as well and were avid collectors of Japanese skulls. Plenty of documentation and pictures of such are available:
The above image even made it to Time magazine in 1944:
I don't know of any pictures or credible sources of German soldiers boiling the flesh off Russian skulls.
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