Why were prized rabbits in Auschwitz? | feat. Tanya Singer

A photo album made with rabbit fur. 

A secret breeding project.

A lost alligator.

The story of Project Angora is truly stranger than fiction.

Holocaust researcher and founder of the Knitting Hope project, Tanya Singer, shares a little-known story from inside 31 concentration camps. 

A few curiosities you’ll uncover in this episode:

• Why Heinrich Himmler was so obsessed with angora rabbits
• The dark message of Nazi fashion
• Why animal exhibits existed at some concentration camps

Click here to read the article on which this episode is based.

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