Overview

• Weleda is reported to have sourced herbs from an SS-run biodynamic facility at Dachau that used concentration-camp prisoners as forced labor.
• The company allegedly supplied a frost-protection cream that SS doctor Sigmund Rascher may have used in lethal hypothermia experiments at the camp.
• The findings come from historian Anne Sudrow’s study, cited by major outlets, which has not yet been published.
• The research also describes personnel overlaps, including former Weleda garden head Franz (Frank) Lippert moving to SS work in Dachau while maintaining contact with the company.
• Weleda’s company history notes the cream delivery but says it is unclear whether it was used in human experiments and asserts Lippert’s SS role was unrelated to his prior employment.