Oh no! Oy vey! Here we go again! It's happening!
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Well the premise of what I did was a 5x5x8 box. In practice the ashes would probably get compacted, and water would cause runoff - but even if you took 1% of that exercise it still comes out to roughly 7.5 miles long by 4.7 miles wide by 4.7 miles high. scattering them would work for the first maybe 100,000 but the shipping alone would be impossible during the war. I don't even want to think about mixing the ashes into other stuff though. I also don't know how much the ashes would compact. Either the dirt gets put back on top, possibly making a very large and very high hill (mountain?), or the dirt raises the elevation all across Germany.
That is interesting, just wanted to see if you thought of other things that could have been done to the remains. Maybe instead of one high mountain, several hills could had been made. Or perhaps most of the remains were dumped down rivers or into a few deep lakes and caves, so no need for as many hills to be made.
The only thing I can think of is like you said - rivers or lakes. It would shock me if they used their own water supply though, but I suppose they could've been that stupid. Maybe they could've shipped it in trains and dumped it in the Baltic or North Sea. This is all assuming the 6M number is real of course.