Stutthof-Sztutowo Was A Soap Factory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cooking Of Actual Jews For Soap

 

 

 

 


 

   

Stutthof-Sztutowo
The barrack blocks were inmates were housed before hundreds of them were shipped off to Rudolf Spanner's soap factory.

Stuttof-Sztuttowo was the first concentration camp built outside Germany on September 2, 1939. Built 34km from Danzig. The camp had some 40 sub-camps. The inmates were housed within eight barrack blocks. In 1942 another thirty barracks were built to house addtional prisoners and a gas chamber and crematoria was added. The gas chamber could hold up to at least 150 victims at a anyone time. From 1939-1945, no fewer than 127,000 prisoners were registered upon their arrival at the camp and it is known that at least 85,000 of these registered inmates were murdered within the compounds of the camp and many thousands more, unregistered victims perished here also. The exact number of dead is unknown.

   

 

 

 

The Commander Of The Camp

After the war, the Commandant, Max Pauli was tried by an Allied tribunal and sentenced to death. SS-Hautpsturmfehrer (captain) Werner Hoppe, who was the camps security officer was sentenced to only nine years imprisonment for his part in the mass killing of the inmates. It was this camp that supplied murdered inmates to another SS officer, Professor Rudolf Spanner.

 

 

 

 

Inside The Soap Factory

Spanner was also a scientist who owned a small soap making factory in Danzig. In 1940, he discovered a process to turn human fat into soap. His product was named R.J.S (Reines Judische Fett) which simply meant-Pure Jewish Fat. Hundreds died to supply Spanner with the soaps main ingredient. On May 10th, 1945, the Russian Army liberated the camp, which made it the last concentration camp to be freed. After the fall of the Third Reich, Spanner was never arrested of his crimes. He however continued his researchs.
 
   



 

 

 

Professor Rudolf Spanner (right)

The owner of a the soap factory in Danzig, that converted human fat into bars of soap

Stutthof served mainly for extermination of the most aware and patriotic Poles, particularly from the educated circles in Danzig and the Pomorze Region. Beginning in 1942, transports of Poles arrived and were directed not only by police units from Danzig-West Prussia, but also from other regions of the occupied country. At this time Stutthof became an international camp. In June 1944, it became an instrument of the final solution and a mass extermination camp.

Within five years of its creation, Stutthof grew from a small camp intended for 3,500 prisoners (in 1940) to a complex of 39 subcamps that held 110,000 people from 25 countries. Among the prisoners were Poles, Jews, Russians, Ukrainians, White Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Czechs, Slovaks, Finns, Norwegians, French, Danes, Dutch, Belgs, Germans, Austrians, English, Spanish, Italians, Yugoslavs, Hungarians, and Gypsies.

   

 

 

 

 

Shooting Mothers And Babies

During their incarceration, prisoners were exposed to slave-like work, malnutrition, terrible sanitation, disease, and mental and physical torture. An estimated 65,000 people died as a result of the living conditions, as well as executions by shooting, hanging, gassing, lethal injection, beatings and torture.

Stutthof was liberated on May 9, 1944, by troops of the Soviet Army — the 48th Army of the 3rd White Russian front.

 
   

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