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**chuck303** · 09-08-2012, 01:54 AM

stuff that was in with the lot from the soldier in the 28th div. its like hard chunks of stinky stuff, very heavy , marked rif 114 . i am thinking it needs to be thrown away, it looks like old bar soap.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 09-08-2012 01:54 AM

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**tempelhof** · 09-08-2012, 01:58 AM

RIF stands for "Reichstelle fuer industrielle Fettversorgung" which would indicate, coming from this entity, that it is indeed soap.

it was of notoriously poor quality.

an example:

it is not exactly identical to yours, but these bars where cheaply made and exist in a lot of configurations.

during the war, there were some very macabre (and totally untrue) rumours about how RIF soap was made. you can research this.

**Walkwolf** · 09-08-2012, 02:29 AM

Don't toss it - someone may actually want something like this.........!

**tempelhof** · 09-08-2012, 02:51 AM

i wouldn't toss it. it has historical interest.

the rumour involving this particular soap got all the way up to Himmler. there are orders issued by him because of it.

**chuck303** · 09-08-2012, 05:26 AM

wow how weird lol, il get better pictures , so its ww2 german ? it stnks so bad like a musty old garage. sure must take on a funny smell after a while i guess. it is almost heavy as stone. i thought maybe it was some sort of composite used for a "charge" or something... lol ive seen these old vets stil havesome pretty crazy stuff from time to time. had to check.. wow soap

cool is it somewhat rare and of value?

**SteveR** · 09-08-2012, 05:33 AM

I wonder if this soap was made from dead concertration camp victims?
Just wondering.

**Wagriff** · 09-08-2012, 06:08 AM

Concentration camp victims soap has been debated for years now...the last article I saw on it said it had never actually existed but had been proposed as a possibility.