We have the crematoria fuel (coke + wood) receipts for Auschwitz-Birkenau between March and October 1943. There were 16,000 confirmed deaths during this period (according to camp documentation) and establishment historians argue that 116,800 additional people were gassed. For a total of 132,800 bodies, there was the equivalent of 628.5 tons of coke delivered, i.e. an average of 4.7 kg of coke per corpse.
How much coke was required for Topf Double-Muffle Cremation Ovens? A study by Prof. P. Schläpfer in 1936, based on practical experiments, shows that after initially requiring 400 kg for the first body, once the oven had completely warmed up after 10 cremations (reaching thermal equilibrium), it then used 37.5 kg of coke per body.
(Note also that F. Piper confirms that no open pit cremations took place during this period. As far as the claims of giant, mass cremations in trenches/pits are concerned, at Auschwitz you hit ground water at 4ft, so these would also likely not have been possible as described. For a more complete analysis, see Mattogno's book (pdf) 'Auschwitz: Open Air Incinerations'.)
For more details, read 'The Crematoria Ovens of Auschwitz and Birkenau', by Carlo Mattogno.
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vicarious ago
It's against the law in many countries for historians to simply do their job when it comes to this specific subject.
The "Truth" - and the basis of many of these laws - is what was declared as such during the Nuremberg trial just after the end of the war. From a scientific point of view this is an absurdity considering how many years of historical work are normally necessary to get any kind of reasonable sense of what happened during a certain event.
DJexs ago
Not to mention the truth fears not the light of investigation. If what they say about the Holocaust is true it wouldn't be illegal to question it in so many countries.
COUSCOUS ago
exactly.