GeorgeCL Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Heres a wierd ?My G Uncle told a story about the times after the end of the war. He told me and my mother told me the same story.GIs were rounding up members of the SS/SS Police for interagation.He and a few others in that area, Would inject Peanut Butter under the skin in order to hide the tatooed SS#.He said they were all tatooed under the arm Left or right I dont remember..OR is this just another story.. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesM Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 (edited) Heres a wierd ?My G Uncle told a story about the times after the end of the war. He told me and my mother told me the same story.GIs were rounding up members of the SS/SS Police for interagation.He and a few others in that area, Would inject Peanut Butter under the skin in order to hide the tatooed SS#.He said they were all tatooed under the arm Left or right I dont remember..OR is this just another story.. GeorgeIf the peanut butter was injected under the skin, I fail to see how it would obscure the tattoo! The average tattoo is about 1/64" to 1/16" into the skin, so, injecting to that depth would be unlikelyespecially if it was the crunchy kind!!! Where's Joe, he's the Dr.!!Cheers,James Edited January 9, 2006 by JamesM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe campbell Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 theoretically....it would cause an INTENSE inflammatory reactionwith deposition of pigment and scarring...i will make no comment on the likelihoodof its success.we've gone from cooking up peanut butterto cooking up meth and heroin....i STRONGLY suspect Skippy and Jif will notbe using this in any future ad campaigns.joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 OK, but who in Europe in 1945 HAD peanut butter? It could only have come from the U.S. armed forces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCL Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 (edited) Wilhelm and his wife ran a black market store as well..Kept the family alive during the war and after..George Edited January 9, 2006 by georgecl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Taylor Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Can't speek to the whole injecting peanut butter thing (EEK!), but I would think burning with a hot piece of metal would take that sucker right off! As for the tattoos, I believe many SS men had their blood type tattooed on the inside of their arm, in addition to those men with SS affiliation tattoos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter monahan Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 As for the tattoos, I believe many SS men had their blood type tattooed on the inside of their arm, in addition to those men with SS affiliation tattoos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaimeH Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 I can't attest to the peanut butter trick, but many SS men did try to hide it by burning (which still showed scars that they were SS). In the Soviet areas they were shot, in the western side they went to de-nazification camps. Read Johann Voss's "Black Edelweisse, confessions and conscience of a Waffen SS soldier". He escaped the retraining because the day he was to be tattoed, his father visted him and he was not tattoed. He then worked for the Americans dong legal work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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