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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.

Biscuitbaiter ago

I currently work at a cemetery with a retort. When we cremate a body, the unit heats to 1700°F and the average body takes 3.5 hrs at that constant temp to be processed. Larger people 400+lbs can take over 6.5hrs to process properly.

The retort is lined with concrete and has a brick type wall structure and holds heat extremely well. It holds heat so well that with one unit we can process two bodies in a day at most. Typically we pull out a processed person around 5hrs after they were put into the unit. The temperature inside the retort is still around 650°F+ degrees at that time and it feels like your skin is melting off when we are working around the unit with the door open pushing someone out.

Even if there was a way to toss tons of people into an oven at once, the sheer mass of bone structure etc, would take a very long time to reduce them to ash and bone. There are other guidelines we have to follow in this field of work that obviously could be left out to speed things up, especially when you don't have to worry about keeping people separate etc...

The more you think about it, the more questions come up... Like you said, people don't think about how big numbers actually are.