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I'm not a holocaust denier but there are some incredibly strange things and definitely lies about some of it. The thing I have issues struggling with lately is anytime we say 7 or 10 or 20 or 50 million people died in some historical event no one remembers. It is almost unfathomable how many people that is and I'm really starting to wonder if a lot of that is "rough estimates" that could be wildly off
Strange like... you're set on world domination, so you're going to commit war time resources (ie, fuel for MULTIPLE crematorium) to kill people you could just shoot and bury?
Or strange like, where are the bones? Just skulls alone of 6M people would BLANKET multiple football fields, up to your head in depth. That's just the skull. 1/10th a body's mass of bone. The burial pits for the entire skeleton would be immense!
Crematorium burnt the bones to dust? So, they used EVEN MORE fuel to burn up bodies they could have just buried??? It takes so, so many hours to burn a body to dust, with the equipment that was available in the 40s.
Or strange like... they would have been burning bodies until the 1990s... no way to burn up 6M people in the span of the war. It's not an easily parallelable process.
Or strange like... those tattoo'd numbers... did they give up handing out numbers at some point? I really only remember 5 and 6 digit numbers. Anyone seen a 7 digit number starting with 5?
Don't you need 7 digits to track 6M people? Wouldn't you be able to find at least 4 million people with 7 digit numbers?
A crematorium is basically just a furnace. Why would a 1940s crematorium be THAT different than a modern one. Calories are calories. It takes a certain amount of energy to break down a body like that and it's not going to be any less or more now than it was then. Efficiency of heat creation by just straight up burning fuel is pretty damn efficient and we haven't figured out a way to magically make today's fuel burn any hotter, and I'm pretty sure concrete or other insulation also wouldn't have changed SO MUCH that it would make a difference of HOURS of efficiency.
If anything they could have been MORE efficient. After all if they were starving them, boom right there half the body mass to burn. Then you stuff a whole bunch into ONE furnace. BOOM now you're utilizing more of the heat and losing less to being radiated out the walls due to a high filled volume.
Go ask a modern cremator. They'll turn a person to ash bones and all in two hours. Stuff a 50 people in there at once, use some more fuel now you're at 50/hr PER furnace. Run that thing full time that's 300,000/yr. I'm assuming they didn't run it full time however. But they probably did have multiple going over multiple years. I'm not saying you're wrong about some of the high victim numbers being worth some skeptism. But it ain't because they couldn't cremate them all. At least theoretically it's possible and even if negligible difficulty.
** shit reading that my math is off but you're still within an order of magnitude of the low estimates with just a few furnaces
My main issue is, why even burn them to begin with, and especially during a world war when you're fighting 2 of the most powerful countries/alliance in the world at the same time, and you need every resources possible. Burning bodies is just completely useless, you can just bury those corpses (at least to avoid sickness) and nature will eventually take back most things. They wanted no evidence of what they did? Maybe, but why?