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Weleda allegedly supplied cream used on prisoners in Dachau by SS doctor

The Guardian September 10, 2025

<p>Study claims Swiss firm provided Nazi concentration camp with anti-frostbite product used in deadly tests in early 1940s</p><p>The natural cosmetics company Weleda supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, resulting in the agonising deaths of prisoners, a historian specialising in Nazi Germany has claimed.</p><p>Weleda, founded 104 years ago and known worldwide for its holistic remedies,<strong> </strong>sourced large quantities of medicinal herbs during the Nazi era from an agricultural plantation overseen by the SS in Dachau, southern Germany, according to a major report by Anne Sudrow commissioned by the <a href="https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/nachrichten/wissenschaftlichen-studie-heil-kraeuter-kulturen-und-saat-der-gewalt-von-dr-anne-sudrow-bei-vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlegt/">Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial</a> Site.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/weleda-allegedly-supplied-cream-used-on-prisoners-in-dachau-by-ss-doctor">Continue reading...</a>

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