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Comment by James Roberts on February 2, 2020 at 12:56pm

Less Prone - The Dieder Werk Company sued William L. Shirer and the publisher of his "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" for claiming their crematoria ovens cremated the remains of six million Holocaust victims, when they are, individually, suitable for the load of only a small cemetary. And there were only six there, if memory serves. The modern crematory oven is a forced-air gas furnace. They won the suit (Dieder Werk) but the info was only changed in the German-language edition. This, even if there were only 1 million corpses, would have taken an enormous amount of resources, which were very valuable otherwise to the war effort. And it would have generated mountains of ash, which were and are nowhere to be found.

Comment by James Roberts on February 2, 2020 at 12:36pm

Sounds like fun. Whee!

I saw Hitler throw Anne Franks' rape babies into the ovens like a pack of wienerschnitzels, with my own eyes!

Comment by Chris of the family Masters on February 2, 2020 at 4:28am

Why would Germans kill their workers toiling for IG Farben?

Comment by Less Prone on February 2, 2020 at 3:59am

How much energy is required for a human cremation?

"Nowadays a cremation furnace is a high-technology process unit engineered to work with a minimum waste of thermal energy in order to lower emissions as much as possible. As we know, a human body is almost 65% composed of water so, in order to vaporize this fraction and considering 2265 KJ/Kg as Specific Latent Heat of Vaporization for water, to burn a 85 Kg body composed of 55 kg of water, we will need 124 MJ. Therefore, a lot of energy and, consequently, a lot of fuel and obviously significant gas emissions."

Modern Cremation Furnace

Fuels, Caloric Values

Heating Oil 43MJ/kg, consider loss of energy into hot exhaust gases and heating of the furnace. Did they really choose to waste all that energy for cremation while at war and scarce oil resources? And the smell.

The environmental toll of cremating the dead

"According to Anshul Garg, the director of Mokshda Green Cremation System, one metal pyre can handle around 45 cremations a day. The system also lowers the amount of wood needed from about 880 to 1100 pounds for a conventional cremation to 220 to 330 pounds."

Comment by Chris of the family Masters on February 2, 2020 at 1:49am

Copyright fantasy not many believe these days.