The new crematoria were more or less ready in spring 1943, and Crematorium I, with its six muffles, was taken out of service in July 1943.[1] The legend claims that these tremendous cremation facilities were for the purpose of disposing of the bodies of "exterminated" Jews, i.e. the million of the legend
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The present study investigates the Auschwitz cremation furnaces from the bottom up. In the first section, the authors summarize the principles of combustion technology and briefly explain the chemical and physical processes of corpse cremations.
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Cremation expert and crematory manager Ivan Lagace was a witness at the second Ernst Zundel holocaust trial. He firmly debunks the concept of mass cremations of thousands and morea day as totally beyond the realm of reality.
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Assuming the data adopted by Müller, to cremate the 10,000 bodies per day referred to by Piper would have required cremation pits with a total surface area of 3,000 square meters,[4] 60 times as much.
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However a compilation of all assumptions used in the calculation shall be given here: All corpses have been cremated in cremators Incineration time was 5 hours per corpse Cremators were single charged (one corpse) 100 cremators were operated Operational time equally for all cremators was
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The article "Grundwasser im Gelände des KGL Kriegsgefangenenlager Birkenau" ("Ground Water Levels at Birkenau Prisoner of War Camp") by Michael Gärtner and Werner Rademarcher,[4] published in German for the first time in 1998 and reproduced in this edition, attempts to show that the existence of "cremation
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For example, if we allow a generous 3-hour cycle time, and only six cycles per day, the combined capacity in September 1942 would still have been almost 25,000 per day, or about 730,000 monthly—more than five times the needed capacity.
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Document 4: Experimental results of carcass incineration in cremation ovens. (Click to enlarge) Fig. 2 shows a better arrangement [see document 1].
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Pressac declared:[9] "At the first European congress on cremation, which took place at Dresden in 1878,[10] strict rules were put down regarding the procedure of the incinerations. Firms building such ovens[11] had to respect such rules.
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The Problem of Cremation A scientific study of the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematory ovens must confront and resolve two fundamental thermal-technical problems: cremation capacity and coke consumption. Pressac does not adequately deal with either of these two problems.
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