article_snippet: Dutch prosecutors have blocked the sale of a bar of soap which Dutch owners claimed was made from the fat of Jewish people murdered at a Nazi death camp.
article_snippet: Rumours - apparently started by the British - that The Nazis were mass-producing soap using the bodies of concentration camp victims first surfaced in the middle of the war.
article_snippet: An antiques salesman tried to sell soap, pictured, reportedly made from the fat of Jewish people murdered at a Nazi death camp .
article_snippet: The Nazis are known to have plundered human bodies for products, with hair used to make felt and insulation for example.
article_snippet: However, the German scientists who were believed to have experimented with making soap from human fat had almost certainly been stopped by SS-chief Heinrich Himmler who had ordered an investigation into the claims on November 20, 1942.
article_snippet: Historian Arthur Haraf said soap was one of a number of items found near the Dutch concentration camp Westerbork, from which Dutch Jews were sent to extermination camps.
article_snippet: soap was reportedly made from the fat of Jewish victims of the Westerbork concentration camp, pictured .
article_snippet: soap is claimed that SS leader Heinrich Himmler, left,  ordered Nazi scientists to stop working on human soap .
article_snippet: The other items had been dentures, tooth brushes and glasses, which he claimed were taken from the Jews at the concentration camp.
highlights_snippet: The listing sought €199 for the bar of soap reportedly made from 'fat'
  The listing was claimed victims of the Westerbork concentration camp in Holland .
  
highlights_snippet: The Nazis are believed to have experimented with the soap during the war .
  
highlights_snippet: SS leader Heinrich Himmler is reported to have stopped the experiments .