Looks like one of those trashy "fur" throws you'd find on a slezay waterbead with mirrors over head.. err.. not spoken from firsthand experience, but that was my first thought.;-)
Again.. I am shocked. I don't care if they are 30, 40, or 80 years old. Why has no one regulated the disposal of this stuff? I love seeing it, kind of frozen in time and in a way I'm gald it wasn't gotten rid of. It just defies common sense leaving it gestating there. again, who know's what could be "brewing" there? I just don't get it. I mean, if you dared me to rub my face with a rag from someone who died in the 1600s of the plague or TB I wouldn't feel very comfortable about it. (Bad example), but age alone doesn't make everything "safe"...
I think you're focusing on the Nazi-era history in the wrong perspective - these are slide catalogs from 1970. The numerous records from the Third Reich have been carefully inspected and archived in museums, libraries, and holocaust memorials, as far as I know.
I just can't comprehend leaving this stuff behind, I know they are "ancient" but who knows what could be brewing in this stuff.. I wouldn't want to chance it. Are there truly NO regulations on disposal, really? A used needle is considered "bio-hazard" these days.. wh oknows what kind of mutated plague could pop up under the right conditions.. It boggles me.
I can't get a perspective on this I guess, but what is that area near the bottom that looks like pretty purple orchids painted there? My eyes must be playing tricks, is it just the lighting?
Why no official effort to preserve this stuff is what I want to know.. It IS a prt of history, sick and twisted, but still. And for geneological purpose as well. Is there just "too much" of it to not warrant some kind of effort??