nazi germany needed to produce as much food and fuel as possible from within its own borders, from within its own borders, from its huge reserves of low quality coal called lignite. a way was found to make liquid fuel and also explosives vital in wartime , obviously, as well in wartime, obviously, as well as soap. imhausen took the same raw material used to make the soap being what we know as paraffin wax, and found a way to make it into a fat that could be dyed and flavoured until it might be passed off as a kind of butter edible by human beings. the companies that grew fat from the innovations, like all that fuel soap and butter, included ig farben, once the largest chemical and pharmaceutical company in the world during the 19405. ig company in the world during the 1940s. ig farben tested that butter on thousands of souls from concentration camps like auschwitz. data found after the war, the result of testing that was not made public at the time revealed prolonged consumption of coal . butter led to kidney of coal. butter led to kidney disease. dogs wouldn't touch the stuff , but since