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acheron2012 ago

I have always said that people don't realize how many a million is. It is simply not logistically feasible to kill - not to mention dispose of, which takes orders of magnitude longer - 6+ million people in the span of half a decade.

You can argue about how blue the sky is, how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, or how many ovens the Nazis had and when they had them. But the math just doesn't work out.

For example assume we go with "only" 6 million. Then we assume NO startup time, the camps and all their facilities, as well as the transported prisoners pop into existence all the way back in 1939. Even under that completely unrealistic scenario you are talking about 2700 people a day: 114 people an hour 24 hours a day, day in, day out, every single day for 2200 days straight - in time of war , not missing one single hour for broken equipment, delayed trains, or ANY other reasons.

Conceptually it is possible. But mathematically it is vanishingly unlikely.

SayTan ago

Considering the % of jews that disappeared from Europe and Russia, 400,000 is horseshit. They killed almost 34,000 in 2 days at Babi Yar with firearms.

mostlyfriendly ago

They killed almost 34,000 in 2 days at Babi Yar with firearms.

Some would suggest that's part of the fabricated narrative.

I don't know enough to form an opinion. But, I have to a do a head scratch when they say that 34K were killed and vast majority of their bodies were burned up in ~40 days. The human body does NOT burn well ... it's mostly water. According to one source, it takes 500-600 kg of wood to burn one body. So, for 34K bodies, you need to chop down roughly 20,000 large (50ft tall) trees. That's clear cutting a good sized forest. Plus you need to mill the wood down to usable pieces. That's not a simple task to be undertaken by a group of soldiers or prisoners in a time of war when manpower and resources were exceedingly valuable.

Again, I don't have an opinion here ... (And, I'm not suggesting that bad things didn't happen. Clearly, people were killed. ) But, as someone who is familiar with manpower and logistics requirements ... this is all rather amazing. That such a herculean effort was undertaken to burn 34K bodies. That's unbelievably impressive to say the least.