Weleda's Nauseating Ties to the Dachau SS Doctor
According to an investigation by historian Anne Sudrow, the century-old natural cosmetics company didn't reveal everything about its collaboration with the Nazi regime. It exchanged seeds and plants with the SS in charge of the extermination camp's medicinal garden. It delivered 20 kilograms of cream to Sigmund Rascher, who used it for barbaric experiments on camp inmates.
The secrets of Dachau's medicinal garden have sparked controversy over Weleda. The natural cosmetics company, founded over a century ago, traded with the SS laboratory that operated the plantation where the concentration camp inmates worked. Worse still, Weleda supplied the camp's SS doctor with a cream that was used in barbaric experiments on humans, according to historian Anne Sudrow.
This Nazi specialist published a 700-page tome on the subject on September 8, which was widely reported in a preview in Der Spiegel . It emerges that Weleda had, as early as March 1941, ordered seeds from the Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Ernährung und Verpflegung (DVA), the SS organization responsible for running the Dachau garden, and received “more than 100 kilograms of dried vine free of charge” from the DVA. Then, in 1943, Weleda sent its antifreeze “cure” to Dachau for a deadly experiment.
Today, the “medicinal garden” of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp is nothing more than a bus stop in an industrial area in southern Germany. The “plantation” was “during the Nazi period one of the nerve centers for the development of organic farming in Germany,” reports the German weekly . But its role remains little known in the app
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