curioussoul wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:20 pm
Nessie wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2024 7:42 am
Stubble wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2024 12:47 am
Exactly, that would be more than cherry picking, it would boarder on malicious. Best to assume he forgot.
One engineer said he saw two corpses being put into an oven, but the oven could not cope.
That's odd. Wouldn't you say?
Chronology is important to establish context. From Mattogno's book, a letter from Sept 1941;
https://sacrosanct.info/Books/Holocaust ... Moscow.pdf
"This had to do with the fact that, after the construction of the crematoria,
the Topf Company sent their people to the concentration camps to assem-
ble the crematoria, and engineer Prüfer, as the construction manager and
designer of the crematoria, went to the concentration camp to inspect how
the assembly work was going; he was also present during the practical
testing of the crematoria.
After his return from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Prüfer told me
that he had been present during the testing of the crematoria built there,
and had come to the conclusion that they were not very efficient and could
not cope with the number of corpses that had to be cremated there. At the
time, Prüfer gave me the example that, in his presence, two corpses at a
time had been introduced into the opening of the crematoria, but the latter
[the furnaces] had not been able to cope with the workload because there
were so many corpses to be cremated in the concentration camp.”
What did the Topf & Sons engineers do about that problem, identified during testing? The answer, Sept 1942,
“In my opinion, cremation in the muffle furnaces is not fast enough to dis-
pose of a large number of bodies in a desirably short time. This is why a
large number of furnaces or muffles are used, and the individual muffles
are stuffed with several corpses, without, however, remedying the root
cause, namely the defects of the muffle system.
In my opinion, these deficiencies of the muffle furnaces, which are not elim-
inated by combining them into four-muffle furnaces (three- or eight-muffle
furnaces) and by stuffing the individual muffles with several bodies concur-
rently, are as follows..."
The two months later;
"As a leading engineer at the Topf Company, I was head of the crematori-
um construction department, headed by Prüfer. The latter told me in 1942,
I don’t remember the exact date, during a conversation about the capacity
of the crematoria that had been built in Auschwitz Concentration Camp,
that they could not cope with the number of corpses to be cremated. He cit-
ed the example that two or three corpses were inserted into the insertion
openings, but that the crematorium could not cope with the workload in the
concentration camps. At that time, as a specialist in the field of heating, I
decided on my own initiative to build a crematorium with a higher
capacity for cremating corpses.
In November 1942, I had finished my project for a crematorium for
mass cremation of corpses, and submitted it to the Reich Patent Office in
Berlin."
The engineers, being engineers, worked on ways to increase capacity, so that the ovens could cope. The Kremas went into operation in 1943 and they could cope with multiple corpse cremations.