Stubble wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 3:07 am
If you look at Dresden and Ohrdruf it should be obvious that these pyres were not for the destruction of remains, but hygienic in nature. I am in no way surprised that hair, soft tissue and even organs were not destroyed during the desiccation of the remains before they were buried.
They were not full cremations to ashes at the AR camps either, just enough to prevent body counts, identification and establishing cause of death. That is why there were reports of body parts and identifiable bones have been photographed.
The fuel requirements are also low using this method of 'expedient field cremation'.
Which will be why there is so little about getting wood for fuelling the AR camp pyres.
I need to check interwar period SOP to see if this method emerged in ww1 or not. I believe it may have.
The Aktion 1005 mythos, in my opinion, is an obvious hoax to explain away the absolute lack of anything commiserate with the story as it has been handed down.
What other mass grave site, or sites, are larger in volume than that identified at the AR camps?
The Soviet knew they would not find anything, and so, they explained it away.
I'm looking forward to your Ponary thread, I'm not getting much in the way of information on it trying to find information myself, just narrative.
None of the archaeological surveys were by the Soviets, including at Ponary.
