Human Lampshade Analysis

After watching the YouTube video title Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery it was clear that the purpose of this study was to analysis the lamb and discover whether or not it was made from human skin. In the video, there was a multitude of difference perspectives. Some of the perspectives that was present in the video were those of scientists, histologists, researchers from some best DNA labs in the United States and also from Mark Jacob the journalist. In the process of discovering if what exactly the lamb was made of they performed cross-section which allowed them to go deep beyond the surface of the lamb. By doing this they were challenging the initials results that claimed that lamb was made of humans. During the course of the video, some of the question that they were trying to answer were: Is this lamp …show more content…
What time of fiber was used in the stitching of lamb? Therefore, if Mark’s lamp shade was reviled to be made out of human could it have been possibly been the key piece of evidence needed to condemn Illse Koch (a Nazi woman who killed innocent people and made lamps out there remains) to death ? In the beginning, the main speaker, Mark Jacob assumes that the lamb he received was made in the concretion camps in Germany during the Holocaust in World War II. He then figured that if this lamb was proved to be made of human skin, it could be worth a lot of money. On the other hand, the process of discovering if this particular lamb was made of human flesh was very expensive and the Journalist Mark Jacob had to travel to a multitude of place to obtain the data needed. Also in order to collect the data needed they were forced to remove pieces from the lamb which as a result could have destroyed the lamp shade and significantly decrease its value. The search came to close once the DNA specialist Dr. Chis Mason reviles to him that the lamb was not made of human