WW2History wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 5:20 pm
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Yes. If you put 4 to 5 corpses into an oven for 30 minutes, the average time those corpses are in the oven, is 30 minutes, as they are all in for 30 minutes.
Tauber describes loading 4-5 bodies per muffle, a “few minutes’ break,” then reloading every 30 minutes, suggesting the entire process, burning to near-complete reduction and clearing ash—occurs within 30 minutes (Pressac, p. 483). Ober Capo August claiming 5-7 minutes/body per “calculations and plans,” reinforcing rapid cycles.
Drop this “average 30 minutes” its utter nonsense and ignores Tauber’s implication that 4-5 bodies are fully processed (burned and raked) in 30 minutes. If Tauber meant partial burning with further time elsewhere (e.g., ash box), he doesn’t say so no mention of raking half-burned bodies or extended ash box time. Tauber’s testimony requires 4-5 bodies to be cremated enough to clear the muffle every 30 minutes, which physics disproves.
Cremating 4-5 bodies (160-200 kg) takes 2-3 hours with 60-75 kg coke, per Topf & Sons specs (Mattogno, p. 89; Rudolf, Dissecting, p. 321). Water Evaporation is roughly ~50-60 kg water/body (100-150 kg for 4-5) at 2,260 kJ/kg, ~30-45 minutes at 800°C. Fat and flesh burn in ~30-60 minutes. Bones to fragments (not ash) take 30-60 minutes
Tauber describes putting corpses into the top of the oven, on the grill, waiting 30 minutes, those corpses being cremated enough they fall through, can be raked through the grill and more corpses put on the grill. He does not say how long the corpses in the bottom continue to burn before the cremains are removed. The Topf & Sons engineer describes the same process and that the burning of the corpses in the bottom of the oven acted as fuel.
That means the corpses were in the oven for longer and the cremations needed less fuel than you want to accept. Your interpretations are to make it appear the corpses were only in the ovens for a few minutes and they needed tons of fuel to burn, to feed your illogical argument from incredulity. You arrogantly think that because you cannot calculate how it worked, it cannot have worked. You are like someone claiming that because they cannot calculate how it was possible to fire rockets from Northern France to London, therefore London was not bombed by V1 and V2 rockets. It is not your calculations that determines if something happened, it is the evidence.
You Said
Yes he does, and you quote him...
Tauber never describes a two-stage process where 4 to 5 corpses are partially cremated in 30 minutes and raked into an ash box for further burning. His testimony (Pressac, p. 483) states “two charges per hour… regulations stipulated that we had to load each muffle every half hour,” thats a full cremation cycle in 30 minutes, which is impossible (4-5 bodies need 2-3 hours, Mattogno, Auschwitz: Crematoriums, p. 89).
In Pressac (Auschwitz: Technique and Operation, p. 483), Tauber says:
“We could burn two charges per hour… regulations stipulated that we had to load each muffle every half hour.”
After loading 4-5 bodies, there’s a “few minutes’ break” before reloading.
He cites Ober Capo August claiming “5 to 7 minutes was allowed to burn one corpse in a muffle” per “calculations and plans.”
You Said
There you go, two charges per hour, load and wait for 30 minutes before loading again.
“Two charges per hour” and “every half hour” mean each muffle is loaded with 4-5 bodies, burned, and cleared within 30 minutes to allow reloading. The “5 to 7 minutes” per corpse (6-7.5 min/body for 4-5) and raking (p. 489) show near-complete cremation, not partial burning with extended ash box time.
“load and wait 30 minutes” simplifies Tauber’s claim, you are ignoring that the muffle must be cleared for reloading. Tauber doesn’t describe partial burning or raking half-burned bodies to an ash box for further cremation, raking clears ash post-combustion. Tauber’s process aligns with the crematorium design?
Topf Design Specs (NI-7179, Topf manual, Betriebsvorschrift, p. 5):
Single Body - 70-80 kg body (65-75% water, 10-20% fat) takes 60-90 minutes with 15-30 kg coke for water evaporation (50-60 kg, 2,260 kJ/kg), tissue burning, and bone calcination (800-1,000°C, Rudolf, Dissecting, p. 321).
4-5 Bodies - 160-200 kg mass increases heat transfer time. Total: 2-3 hours with 60-75 kg coke, factoring residual heat and fat combustion (Mattogno, p. 89).
Fuel Rate -15 kg coke/hour/muffle (max efficiency). In 30 minutes: ~7.5 kg, enough for partial burning of one body, not 4-5.
Reloading every 30 minutes requires clearing the muffle. Half-burned remains (wet, 100-150 kg water un-evaporated) would clog grates and Topf warns about this. Topf’s design (blueprint NI-7179) has no mechanism for mid-cycle raking of large residues.
Tauber corroborates Sander, the Topf & Sons engineer, when he said;
"Later on, as cremations succeeded one another, the furnaces burned thanks to the embers produced by the combustion of the corpses. So, during the incineration of fat bodies, the fires were generally extinguished. When this type of body was charged into a hot furnace, fat immediately began to flow into the ash bin, where it caught fire and started the combustion of the body. When "musulmans" were being cremated, it was necessary to constantly refuel the fireboxes."
Corpses remianed in the ovens for longer than you want to accept, as you do not acknowledge the witness evidence of continued cremation inside the ash bin. We do not know how often the ash bin was emptied, or how. It would obviously be able to contain more than 4 to 5 corpses, as by then they were cremated.
It ruins your argument from incredulity, to acknowledge that the witness descriptions make sense with a process that had the corpses inside the ovens for more than half an hour. It is obvious you are trying to manipulate the witness claims into the corpses being in the ovens for only a few minutes.
You Said
You are wrong, as the Topf & Sons engineer Sander describe the same process as Tauber.
“Two charges per hour” and “every half hour” mean a complete cycle—4-5 bodies loaded, burned to ash, raked, and muffle cleared—within 30 minutes (6-7.5 min/body, per August’s “5 to 7 minutes”). The “few minutes’ break” is for reloading, not an extended ash box phase. Raking clears ash post-combustion, not half-burned corpses mid-cycle (p. 489).
Tauber never describes corpses “falling mid-cycle to burn below” or partial burning with ash box raking.
"I was also able to observe how cremation proceeded while I was moving the corpses in the furnace with a fire iron, to accelerate the combustion"
"First we put in two adults, then as many children as the muffle could contain. It was sometimes as many as 5 or 6. We used this procedure so that the bodies of children would not be placed directly on the grid bars, which were relatively far apart. In this way we prevented the children from falling through into the ash bin."
Clearly, corpses started in the top, on the grid bars, and then they would fall through to the ash box.
Sander’s descriptions (1941 patent, Pressac, p. 398; 1943 memo, Pressac, p. 400) outline standard cremation for 1 body/muffle/hour, with no support for 4-5 bodies in 30 minutes or mid-cycle raking to an ash box.
Pressac, p. 398: Sander’s patent for Topf’s triple-muffle oven (Krema II/III) describes continuous operation for single bodies, with 1 body/muffle/hour (60-90 minutes, 15-30 kg coke). It emphasizes efficiency via residual heat, not rapid multi-body cycles. No mention of 4-5 bodies, 30-minute cycles, or raking half-burned corpses to an ash box.
Topf Design Specs (NI-7179, Topf manual, Betriebsvorschrift, p. 5)
4-5 Bodies: 160-200 kg mass requires 2-3 hours with 60-75 kg coke due to slower heat transfer (Mattogno, Auschwitz: Crematoriums, p. 89). Sander’s 1 body/hour contradicts Tauber’s 4-5 bodies in 30 minutes. Tauber’s “5 to 7 minutes” per corpse (Pressac, p. 483) has no parallel in Sander’s documents. Not tied to Topf’s “calculations and plans.”
You are playing about with information that is based on estimations, with you filling in the gaps. It does not matter that you cannot work out how it was possible, with your calculations.
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Sander does not give timings, but 30 minutes in the top of the oven and then falling, being raked through to the bottom of the oven and to keep burning, serving as fuel, is how the process worked.
Sander’s patent is a theoretical design, not used at Auschwitz, with no 30-minute timing or raking to a “bottom.” You’re misrepresenting it to fit Tauber.
Sander said;
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=61650
"The crematorium for mass incineration should be developed after the principle of the assembly line, and into the oven corpses should be incessantly introduced for cremation by mechanical means.
The corpses should get into the oven under the load of their own weight, falling by themselves upon the grid on a fireproof surface with an inclination of 40 degrees and burning under the effect of the fire. The corpses themselves were to serve as an additional source of fuel.
This patent could not be officially registered at the state patent office because due to the war it had a confidential character, but my invention was applied in practice, and the number [of the patent-] was communicated to me."
His design was "applied in practice".
You Said
Tauber and Sander describe a two stage process.
Tauber never mentions Partial burning for 30 minutes at the “top.” or Raking or corpses “falling” mid-cycle to a “bottom” for further burning or A “bottom” phase in the ash box or elsewhere. Tauber’s raking (p. 489) involves clearing ash and bone fragments after combustion, standard for Topf ovens (Topf manual, Betriebsvorschrift, p. 5). There’s no indication of moving half-burned corpses mid-cycle.
He describes an oven on two parts, with corpses placed onto a metal grate with an ash box below. He describes the gaps as large enough for children's corpses to fall through. If it takes 30 minutes to cremate the corpses ontop of the grate, before more corpses can be introduced, and the crmeated corpses acting as fuel, that clearly means the corpses fall through the gaps, to keep on burning, as more corpses are introduced.
You Said
You are ignoring that two charges per hour, is half an hour per charge and every corpse has been in for half an hour, before more corpses are introduced, so their average is 30 minutes, not 5 to 7.
How are you still on this? Tauber’s Exact Words (Pressac, p. 483):
“Ober Capo August explained… according to the calculations and plans for this crematorium, 5 to 7 minutes was allowed to burn one corpse in a muffle.”
“We could burn two charges per hour… regulations stipulated that we had to load each muffle every half hour.”
Loading 4-5 bodies, “a few minutes’ break,” then reloading; raking clears “ash” after combustion (p. 489).
“Two charges per hour” and “every half hour” mean each muffle is loaded with 4-5 bodies, burned to ash, raked, and cleared within 30 minutes to allow reloading. The “few minutes’ break” is for reloading, not an extended burning phase elsewhere. Raking (p. 489) clears ash post-combustion, not half-burned corpses mid-cycle. This is the third time we've been over this.
Your interpretation is wrong. You have no decription of the ash box being emptied 30 minutes after the corpses have been put into the grate. I have descriptions of corpses buring in the ash box, acting as fuel, as more corpses are introduced after 30 minutes, meaning the corpses burn both above the grate and then in the ash box, so they are in the oven for more than 30 minutes.
You Said
The corpses were naked, they were not fully cremated and they were in the top oven for 30 minutes and then the bottom of the oven, for an unknown time.
Nakedness reduces minor variables (clothing weight, ~1-2 kg), that doesn’t change the core physics. 160-200 kg of flesh, water, and bone need 2-3 hours. Tauber doesn’t specify nakedness affecting the process. Nakedness also doesn’t reduce water content (65-75%) or bone mass, still requiring 2-3 hours (Rudolf, p. 321).
Multiple corpse cremations, of naked corpses, no coffins, not to ash to be returned to relatives, means comparisons with single coffin cremations of clothed corpses to ashes are false comparisons. Of course the latter will take more time.
You Said
Tauber describes a process of introducing corpses into the top of the oven on a grill, waiting 30 minutes, then those corpses drop into the lower part of the oven, for the next load of corpses to be introduced, in a continuous operation.
This is entirely unsupported by Tauber’s testimony. Your “two-stage” process is a made-up distortion, and you've failed to cite Pressac to back it up.
Raking Description (Pressac, p. 489):
“After combustion, the ash was raked out of the ash box below the muffle and the muffle was ready to receive a new load.”
Tauber never mentions corpses introduced into the “top” of the oven, muffles are loaded horizontally via doors. He never mentioned corpses “dropping” mid-cycle to a “lower part” (ash box or elsewhere) for further burning. Or a “continuous operation” where corpses move from “top” to “lower part.”
Tauber’s testimony (Pressac, p. 483, 489) describes a full 30-minute cremation cycle for 4-5 bodies, with ash raked post-combustion, not corpses “dropping” to a “lower part.” Your “two-stage” process is a complete fabrication. Cite Pressac where Tauber describes corpses dropping mid-cycle to a “lower part,” as I’ve challenged, or admit it’s made up.
Dude what? Topf’s triple-muffle ovens has a single chamber per muffle with a clay grate. Bodies burn on the grate, ash then drops to the ash box after full combustion (60-90 minutes/body, Topf manual, Betriebsvorschrift, p. 5). There’s no “lower part” burning chamber or mechanism for corpses to “drop” mid-cycle.
At 15 kg coke/hour/muffle, 30 minutes provides 7.5 kg coke, which is enough to char flesh of one body but not evaporate the 100-150 kg water or calcine bones for 4-5. Remains are wet, half-burned, and unable to “drop” through the grate (grate holes are for ash, not corpses) or be raked without clogging (Topf manual, p. 5).
Tauber said;
"First we put in two adults, then as many children as the muffle could contain. It was sometimes as many as 5 or 6. We used this procedure so that the bodies of children would not be placed
directly on the grid bars which were relatively far apart. In this way we prevented the children from falling through into the ash bin."
There are two parts to the oven.
You Said
Tauber doesn’t suggest corpses in the “lower part” (or anywhere) heat the oven to save coke. His process relies on muffle combustion, requiring full coke input (15-30 kg/body, Topf specs, Mattogno, p. 67).
Corpses in the ash box can’t burn or heat the oven. Without a heat source (coke gasifier) or airflow (forced draft, as in the muffle), combustion stops in the ash box. Half-burned corpses (wet, 100-150 kg water after 30 minutes) would cool, not burn (Rudolf, p. 321). The ash box is below the muffle, insulated from the combustion chamber. Let's even assume corpses smoldered (impossible), heat wouldn’t transfer to the muffle to reduce coke needs.
Topf specs require 15-30 kg coke/body (27 kg average, Rudolf, p. 322) for water evaporation (50-60 kg, 2,260 kJ/kg), tissue burning, and bone calcination. For 4-5 bodies (160-200 kg), 60-75 kg coke is needed over 2-3 hours. Corpses’ fat (10-20% body weight) contributes minimally (~5-10 kg/body, Rudolf, p. 321), and only in the muffle with sustained heat. The ash box can’t sustain this, so coke needs remain unchanged.
Tauber said;
"Later on, as cremations succeeded one another, the furnaces burned thanks to the embers produced by the combustion of the corpses."
That is the embers in the ash box, below the grate. Sander said;
"The corpses themselves were to serve as an additional source of fuel."
