Human trophy collecting in World War II

There are two notable reported instances of lampshades made from human skin. After World War II, it was claimed that Nazis had made at least one lampshade from murdered concentration camp inmates: a human skin lampshade was displayed by Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch and his wife, Ilse Koch, said to be with other human skin artifacts. Despite myths to the contrary, there were no systematic efforts by the Nazis to make human skin lampshades.

Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".

German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909–1948)

Reich University of Strasbourg pseudo-scientific anatomical collection comprised of 86 Jewish victims of Nazi murder; used to promote Nazi racial doctrines

mutilation during war