Weleda launches inquiry into Nazi camp skin test claims

WELEDA, a natural cosmetic company, launched a study on its links to the Nazi detention camp, following the demand that it was tested as an anti -freezing cream that it produced on prisoners.

A report for the historian Ann Sodro claims that the Swiss company requested raw materials from a garden in the Dachau camp. It also made a cream to protect against low body temperature, which is allegedly using a SS doctor in human experiments.

Wilda said that a separate report in 2023 did not find any evidence that Dr. Sigmund Rashr tested the cream on prisoners reserved in freezing conditions.

The company said it condemned the “atrocities” of the Nazi regime, and admitted that the new results “may not have been fully explored in previous research.”

Dachau, near Munich, was the first detention camp created by the Nazis in 1933.

It is believed that 200,000 people were imprisoned there and more than 40,000 died before its liberation in 1945. Some of these deaths were attributed to medical experiments.

In her book, commissioned by the Dachau Camporial website, Mrs. Sudow determines the relationship between Wilda and SS – the power of the elite in the Nazi party founded by Adolf Hitler.

These claims include WELEDA with experiences of up to 300 prisoners of the detention camp between August 1942 and May 1943, according to German News Der Spiegel.

WELEDA cream was supposed to use a decrease in body temperature in German soldiers and Dr. Rascher wanted to know whether the product could delay the medical condition in frozen temperatures.

During his tests, up to 90 prisoners died when they were forced into icebergs, Der Spice said.

The 104 -year -old, which is famous for a group of skin care products, said it is committed to “searching for our history with transparency.”

It is expected that the results of its new investigation, conducted by the German Society for the History of Companies (GUG), will be published in early 2027.

“We condemn the atrocities of national socialism with the strongest possible conditions,” said Tina Muller, CEO of WELEDA.

Fascism, anti -Semitism, racism, or right -wing extremist ideology have no place with us.

The company said that it granted historians “full access to the company’s archives” to conduct its study for 2023 in the history of the company.

Welleda added that the matter was also provided to Mrs. Sudow for her work, including reaching the “minutes of the Board of Directors from the Nazi era.”

Welda confess Previous Gog ReportThe brand for skin care and published last year, “has not yet been designed to study all detailed aspects.”

The document indicated that WELEDA asked the plants from the Dachau Camp Park – where the prisoners worked – but they were never delivered.

He also stated that Dr. Rashr was 20 kg of Walida anti -freezing dignity as part of his “cold experiences”, but there was no evidence that the company had been used on prisoners of camps for these purposes.

The company was founded in 1921 by the Austrian academic and philosopher Rudolph Steiner who established the Anthropovovius doctrine, which – According to the topic of Britanica It is “philosophy based on the hypothesis that the human mind has the ability to communicate with spiritual worlds.”

He also led Steiner schools system At his death in 1925, he left a wide range of work covering everything from homosexuality and biological agriculture, to alternative medicine and the purpose of life.