Overview

• Der Spiegel and Der Tagesspiegel report that historian Anne Sudrow’s study alleges operational links between Weleda and SS-run facilities at the Dachau concentration camp.
• The reports say Weleda sourced medicinal herbs from an SS agricultural site in Dachau operated by the Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Ernährung und Verpflegung, where prisoners were forced to work.
• The study cited by the outlets contends Weleda supplied a frost-protection cream that SS doctor Sigmund Rascher may have used in human experiments on hypothermia at Dachau.
• Sudrow’s research also describes personnel overlaps, including former Weleda herbal-garden head Franz (Frank) Lippert working for the SS at Dachau from 1941 while remaining in contact with the company.
• Weleda’s published company history acknowledges a delivery of the cream but says its use in experiments is unclear, and the firm states Lippert’s SS activities had no connection to his former role at Weleda.