Mark Jacobson - The Lampshade

Semprún, Jorge, 157—61, 163, 230—31

Bundestag speech of, 323 n —24 n

Senate, U.S., 141, 244, 245

“separate but equal” ruling, 195

Service Corporation International (SCI), 285—86

Sessions, William, 66

“701” law, 186—87

761st Tank Battalion, U.S., 303

sexual relations, 65, 105, 227—28, 236

Shadows of Silence (documentary), 136—37

SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force), 145, 146, 153, 154, 156, 161, 163, 164—65

Shakespeare, Joseph, 324 n

Shalev, Avner, 257, 265—67

Sharon, Ariel, 269

Shas Party, 278, 292

Shendar, Yehudit, 266

Shermer, Michael, 147, 150

Shiva, 183

Shreveport Journal, 245

shrunken heads, 105, 106, 107, 129, 137, 140, 141, 143—45, 211, 295, 321 n, 326 n

Rosenberg and, 153—54, 167

Stein’s views on, 217

“Shrunken Heads of Buchenwald, The” (Douglas), 321 n

Siewert, Robert, 214—15

Silence of the Lambs, The (film), 102

Simon, Uriel, 279

Sinti, 227—29

Sistine Chapel, 100

skeletons, 13, 45

Skeptics Society, 147

skin, human, 99—103, 140—41

as keeper of the self, 99—100

as lynching souvenir, 199

Nazi atrocities and, 12—14, 17—21, 28, 44, 51, 57, 106, 120—21, 139, 156, 164, 166, 205, 207

voodoo tradition and, 203, 204

see also tattoos, tattooed skin

Skokie, Ill., 111

Skorecki, Karl, 325 n

skulls, 13, 51

Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), 296—97, 301

slavery, 191—92, 193, 205, 255, 304

slave trade, 207—8

Smith, Arthur L., 15

Smith, Bessie, 24

Smith, Bradley, 147, 149—51

Smith, Mike, see Denier Bud

Smithsonian Institute, 251

Snodgrass, Harry, 120

Snow, Clyde, 267

soap, 57, 115—16, 150, 151, 311, 321 n

in Chamber of the Holocaust, 275, 276

Solutrean hypothesis, 251

Sommer, Martin, 304

Soviet Union, 19, 92, 144, 155, 215, 218—19, 221

spacewalk, 28—39, 320 n

Spanish Civil War, 158, 204, 213

Spanner, Rudolf, 115—16

Spear of Destiny (the Holy Lance), 119—20, 322 n

Spender, Stephen, 167

Spiegel, Der, 105

Spielberg, Steven, 112

SS (Schutzstaffel), 8—11, 13—15, 17, 19, 51, 101, 104, 117, 135, 146, 151, 154, 158, 211, 221, 230, 236, 304

at Auschwitz, 170

Bruskina’s hanging by, 74—75

camp songs and, 91—92

color-coded patches issued by, 90—91

films shown by, 159—60

Häftlingsführung and, 155

kapos and, 155, 217

Morgen as judge of, 143

Spear of Destiny and, 120

wives of, 216, 237

stalags, 324 n —25 n

Stalinism, 218, 222, 223

Stars and Stripes, 17

State Department, U.S., 250

State of Louisiana Road Home program, 178—79

Stein, Harry, 17, 215—19, 221, 304

Stein, Sabine, 218, 304

Steve (lampshade seller), 109—11

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 3

Stewie (author’s friend), 52—53

Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot and the Song of Robert Charles, The (Morton), 197—98

Stovall Plantation, 26, 319 n

Strasberg, Lee, 234

Strasser, Gregor, 298

Strasser, Otto, 298

Strauss, Daniel, 227—29

Strauss, Heinz (Pappo), 227—29

Stringer, Ann, 17—19, 71, 120

Sullivan, Ed, 50

Supreme Court, U.S., 195, 324 n

Sutton, Willie, 66

Tarantino, Quentin, 322 n

tattoos, tattooed skin, 125, 136, 144

on Buchenwald Table, 104—5, 139, 166, 321 n

criminal behavior and, 17, 320 n

“fuck bitches,” 219—20

of Hans, 224—25

of Jean, 20

Jewish law and, 125

Katrina, 310

Kipperman’s search for, 132

on lampshades, 322 n

in National Archives, 129

Nazi use of, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 28, 57, 104—5, 121

number, 53, 54, 83, 125, 128—29, 151, 228

of Skip, 28—29

of woman with butterfly wings, 105, 129

teeth, 13, 51, 178

Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock on, 269

Texas, University of (El Paso), 155, 168, 169

Thälmann, Ernst, 215

Theory and Practice of Hell, The (Kogon), 90—91, 154, 217

Theory of Colors, A (Goethe), 259—60

Thermo-Squat, 182—83

Thorne, Dyanne, 232—35, 233

“Through a Glass, Darkly” (Patton), 120

Thuringia, 8, 23, 225, 231, 304

Tibetan Book of the Dead, 160

Time, 19, 233

Tomb of David, 277

Topolosky, Uri, 290—93

Torah, 123, 125, 264, 275, 278, 290, 292

torture, 15—16, 93, 198, 304

tourism, 27—28, 87—88, 112, 204, 277

Touro, Judah, 37, 289

toys, stories of bombs in, 273

Treasury Department, U.S., Bureau of Engraving and Printing of, 126—28

trickster/soul barterers, 25

Trithemius, abbot of Würzberg, 319 n

Tulane University, 209, 311

Tuol Sleng (“Hill of the Poisonous Trees”), 93, 123

Turner, Ike, 24

Turner Diaries, The (Pierce), 224

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), 112—17, 121, 132—35, 138

Kipperman’s encounters with, 126—29, 132—33

library at, 129

Zyklon B in, 135

universalism vs. particularism, 122—24, 261—62

Uris, Leon, 52

Vanier, Georges, 121

Verband Deutscher Sinti und Roma Baden-Württemberg, 227

Vergangenheitsbewältigung, 222

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 9

Vienna, 119—20

Villa Koch, 16, 131, 229

violence, 176, 213, 223, 273, 298, 299—300

in Ciudad Juárez, 170

in New Orleans, 186—88, 191, 195—99

Virdun, Johann, 319 n

Virgin Mary, 207

von Hagens, Gunther, 101—2

Vonnegut, Kurt, 296—97, 301

voodoo tradition, 203, 204

voting rights, black, 195

Wagner, Erich, 17, 28, 216, 320 n

Wagner, Richard, 119

Wallace, George, 148, 244

Walsh, Peter Patrick Francis, III, 83

Waltrip, Robert, 285

Wannsee Conference, 165, 195

War Department, U.S., 103

Warmoth, Henry C., 243

War of Independence, Israeli, 271

Washington, D.C., 304

Holocaust Museum in, 112—17, 121, 127—28

Washington Post, 127, 136, 152

waterboarding, 16

Waters, Muddy, 23, 26, 319 n

WBOK, 306, 307

Weber, Mark, 323 n

Webster, William, 66

weddings, fantasy, 235

Wegener, Ignatz, 105

Weimar, 7, 10, 23, 158, 164, 219—26, 305

Goethe’s house in, 159, 160

Hitler in, 8, 159, 222

neo-Nazis in, 221—26, 250

Weimar march, 103—5, 113, 131, 139, 143, 144, 145, 145

Rosenberg and, 158, 163—64, 323 n

Schramm and, 326 n

Weiner, Louis, 66

Wells, Fontaine, 45, 134

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 196—97, 198

West Bank, 270—74, 278

West Bank Separation Security Barrier, 271—72

Wewelsburg castle, 17

Wheatstraw, Peetie, 25

White, Ed, 28—29, 320 n

“white flight” refuge, 193

White League, 195

Widmark, Richard, 140—41

Wiesel, Elie, 9, 302, 303

Wiesenthal, Simon, 115, 321 n

Wilder, Billy, 103, 144

Williamson, Sonny Boy, 27

Winchell, Walter, 51

“Witchy Red” (song), 203

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 160

Wolfe, Robert, 129

Worden, Bernice, 102—3

World Trade Center, 56

World War I, 115, 164

World War II, 9, 53—54, 82, 103—4, 144, 147, 150, 204

deaths in, 264, 301—2