SanityCheck wrote:...
Ok, so for digestion purposes, here's a summary of SC's responses on each of the points from the OP regarding physical evidence:
1. FeCN levels or crematoria use/maintenance at Birkenau:
Fully addressed FeCN (Prussian Blue/cyanide traces): Dismissed Rudolf/Leuchter via short exposure times, ventilation, washing/whitewashing, excreta/CO₂ effects, & 40+ yrs exposure to elements; contrasts delousing chambers; notes Polish 1945 traces corroborate use.
Partially addressed crematoria (capacity/multiple bodies; docs/testimonies/T4 parallels); minimal on maintenance.
2. Grave volumes or contents at major camps:
Partially addressed (Belzec focus: Kola's bore-probe volumes sufficient w/ decomposition/child skew; rejects rev. m³/corpse assumptions; AR camps/Aktion 1005 exhumed graves; general non-exhumed graves via Yad Vashem/USHMM; no Birkenau/Auschwitz graves detail, as direct cremation).
3. Fuel needs/evidence at major camps:
Directly addressed: AR camps self-supplied wood locally; Chelmno docs/forestry memoir; Birkenau forest kommandos (1942-43/44); rejects rev. exaggerations (e.g., bodyweight/fuel ratios); cites Dresden/Klooga pyres & Aktion 1005 as proofs of feasibility.
Thank you, Dr. Terry, for your attempt here. I think it's important.
As HansHill already points out (and is better suited to address), your dismissal of Rudolf's FeCN/Birkenau work based on claimed limitations of exposure simply do not hold up. Rudolf has
modeled this comprehensively to the extent that all available evidence allows, and it aligns to support the expectation of considerable FeCN formation, similar to that found in delousing chambers. Exposure to elements is a trivial matter given the stability of FeCN, and samples were also taken in unweathered (or less weathered; e.g., ceiling) areas.
For you to debate Rudolf's methodology, findings, and conclusions is of course unproductive. You would [hopefully] recognize you are
not qualified to do so and that you would be 'smoked' in any debate against Rudolf, on any aspect of his scientific findings. What makes much more sense, on your part, is for you to point to any academic/scientist who is up for the challenge.
Your partial addressing of Birkenau crematoria is not very helpful, either. You don't mention the utter
lack of refractory brick maintenance corresponding to alleged scale of operation, exacerbated by air photos which reflect a surprising lack of expected ongoing, constant cremation.
Your claim of overlapping cremations does not help your case at all. Exterminationists lean heavily into this concept, hoping that conserving some of the exothermic energy of a prior corpse (in burning a latter/subsequent corpse) can explain away the "hard cap" on coke throughput (about 33.3 kg/hr, see:
viewtopic.php?p=7395#p7395).
But it simply does not. Given constraints regarding the upper heating value (UHV) of corpses, particularly very lean corpses (which would by far be the most prevalent for most Jews cremated at Birkenau), and once accounting for efficiency reductions in such a process (problems of timing; multiple-corpse impact on gas flow, draft, and heat supply) and standard efficiency limitations (thermal losses common to all of the crematoria), you are facing
at most a ~10-15% reduction in the time required to cremate each corpse with such 'overlapping'. This is because:
- Most corpses are extremely lean (years of deprivation) by the time they reach Birkenau's crematoria, making a maximum ~40,000 kcal available exothermically per corpse, with exceptions for those less lean Jewish populations (e.g. Hungarian Jews, perhaps with up to ~90,000 or so kcal per corpse available exothermically).
- What is available exothermically does not equate to what can actually serve to meet endothermic demand of a subsequent corpse -- the question of efficiency reduces this considerably, with the Birkenau furnaces having only about 54% thermal efficiency (see TCFOA, p. 364).
- This means that only at most about 30,000 - 40,000 kcal of exothermic energy of a prior corpse could be made available to meet the endothermic demand of a subsequent corpse
This is a massive problem for you, since energy requirements per corpses are (see TCFOA, section 10.4):
- Normal corpse: 327,800 kcal
- Average corpse: 247,630 kcal
- Lean corpse: 206,100 kcal
Thus, overall, the estimate that overlapping corpses in cremation reduces cremation time by about 10-15% (~35,000 kcal / ~230,000 kcal = ~15%) holds, especially factoring in efficiency losses caused by multi-corpse arrangements themselves (e.g. airflow).
Unless you wish to take the view that Jews across Europe were actually
very well-fed by Germany throughout the war prior to gassing and cremation at Birkenau (i.e. in the range of daily ~3,000+ calorie diets, thus entailing very high body fat), there is
no way to reconcile your view that overlapping of corpses could suffice to explain massive cremation time reductions per corpse (and even this would be a stretch).
As for your position on Kola's drills as reflective of how many corpses are actually underneath either Belzec or Sobibor, let it suffice to point out that
Kola initially documented a densely-filled corpse grave in Graves 1 and 2 at Sobibor -- however both of these graves were later excavated by Mazurek et al and were found to be mostly empty (entirely so for Grave 1, and mostly so for Grave 2 [EDIT: also true for grave 7]), discussed here:
viewtopic.php?t=628
Just to put my neck out (that is, adding some falsifiability in the form of risk/precision), here is my most careful interpretation of how many corpses are
actually reflected by the best-known evidence of Sobibor excavations:
(range goes from what I consider "reasonable minimum" to "reasonable maximum"):
Grave 1: 2 - 10 (near-empty)
Grave 2: 150 - 1,200
Grave 3: 300 - 2,500
Grave 4: 1,200 - 7,000
Grave 5: 500 - 2,500
Grave 6: 550 - 3,800
Grave 7: 0 - 0 (empty)
TOTAL: 2,702 - 17,010
This is my attempt at an objective assessment based on grave descriptions.
I would challenge you, Dr. Terry, to rationalize a higher value than the upper range for the graves (1-7) which I have noted above, for Sobibor, based on the combined findings and interpretations of Kola and Mazurek's team. The volume and density needed for anything near the order of magnitude claimed per the 'Holocaust' is not present.
The bottom-line is that Kola's
reconnoissance was never meant as an
excavation -- and the excavations of AR camps (e.g. Judge Lukasciewicz, Mazurek et al., Sturdy-Colls) repeatedly demonstrate patterns of
only sparse, scattered remains (and an abundance of evidence for economic operations; e.g. buried property/junk).
Back to the matter of cremations, you're mind-bogglingly out-of-date by suggesting the following:
SanityCheck wrote:...where [Mattogno] repeats a figure of 250kg/corpse whenever he feels like it...
Mattogno's estimate of 250kg/corpse was likely
far too low, as evidenced in a far more comprehensive study published as of 2018, which Mattogno had not yet accounted for:
https://codoh.com/library/document/expe ... cremation/
Discussed here:
https://codoh.com/library/document/open ... revisited/
These findings (also supported by recent discussions about Indian funeral pyres) shift the per-corpse-requirement to
upwards of 400kg+.
Your point about children contributing to volume reduction are another unfortunate excuse, barely a drop in the bucket. If I am recalling correctly from earlier research into this, about 25% of Jews sent to Reinhard camps would have been children. Children on average (factoring infant to adolescent) are about 50% the size of adults. This means you can at most reduce your expected volume by ~12%, even if it's assumed Mattogno didn't already factor this into his assessment (unlikely). You are grasping straws, here.
Regarding fuel/wood, you claim wood was self-supplied (somehow, some way -- but
totally unevidenced). You seem to think that 'some burning happened' counts as specific or converging evidence of 'hundreds of thousands of corpses cremated'.
What we know for certain is that garbage/rubbish was being burned frequently at these sites (per the documented economic operation and witness statements), and that corpses should have also ended up at these sites under a revisionist framework (ghetto transports already being sent this way, with plenty of diseased corpses from ghettos which themselves lacked cremation facilities) fits well-within reason. The
scale is paramount, here. What you are claiming is a biblical-scale event of mass murder and subsequent mass pyres and cremation.
You're in a huge pickle here, Dr. Terry (for Treblinka, alone):
~350 kg wood x 800,000 corpses =
280 million kg of wood
This amounts to the largest burning operation of any kind, anywhere, ever (and by orders of magnitude).
Where did this wood come from? This is not explained by, "I dunno, probably came from locally."
Nor does this explain why we have so few witness statements from the thousands of Polish residents and others surrounding these camps (not even post-war), when you allege there should have been non-stop foul/acrid smoke blowing into their windows for months/years at a time as they ate dinner with their families, with a relentless mushroom-cloud-of-death clearly as the culprit, just a few miles from their homes and local businesses. See:
viewtopic.php?p=20087#p20087
Now, back to the matter of falsifiability: you seem to believe that we could find evidence reflecting millions of corpses buried under the AR camps. OK, well then entertain me:
how exactly could we conceivably (in-practice) prove your theory as false?
We both know this isn't possible. Beyond the laws/policies preventing this, the camps have 'monuments' installed over them which now prevent further excavation from ever occurring again. This means your view is
not falsifiable, which means it isn't legitimate/scientific.
Altogether, while I respect and acknowledge your effort in tackling the physical evidence debate to the extent you have shown here, your position flounders, and there is no one else in your camp still around (and qualified?) to salvage it.