A grisly but fascinating – and well written – article from The Recorder, the Harvard Law School newspaper. Dan Alban investigates the real life examples of books bound in human skin, tracing their history and origins, and, as a particularly macabre bonus, attempts to debunk the myth of lampshades being made from human skin in Nazi death camps.
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