Weleda allegedly supplied cream used on prisoners in Dachau by SS doctor

A memorial sculpture at the site of the Dachau concentration camp, where prisoners allegedly died after being kept in freezing conditions during the experiments. Photograph: David Newell Smith/The Observer

The natural cosmetics company Weleda supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, a historian specialising in Nazi Germany has claimed.

Weleda, founded 104 years ago and known worldwide for its holistic remedies, sourced large quantities of medicinal herbs during the Nazi era from an agricultural plantation overseen by the SS in Dachau, southern Germany, according to a major report by Anne Sudrow commissioned by the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site.