Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #22: Women Burn Faster
In our next instalment of ‘Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense’ we have the testimony of Henry Tauber (aka Henryk Tauber) at Auschwitz on 24th May 1945 before Jan Sehn - the examining judge of Krakow and member of the ‘Central Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland’ – and a key ‘eyewitness testimony’ that is often used as ‘evidence’ for Auschwitz being a death camp because Tauber was a member of the Auschwitz jewish Sonderkommando (i.e., he was a Kapo) who helped cremate the bodies of dead jews.
Tauber claimed that:
‘Women's bodies burned much better and more quickly than those of men. For this reason, when a charge was burning badly, we would introduce a women's body to accelerate the combustion.’ (1)
Tauber’s claim here is rather bizarre by any standard in that he is claiming that men burn slower than women and further that when a body was ‘burning badly’ – presumably he means too slowly – then the staff and workers of Auschwitz simply shoved a woman’s body in the cremation oven.
Given that this is simply not how cremation works and that the more material you shove into a cremation oven then the longer it will take and the greater the risk of damage to the oven itself due to the prolonged heat (as well as increasing the chances of a potential grease/human fat-based fire).
This is rather ludicrous by any standard but probably relates to Tauber’s rather strange belief that human fat is a means to make cremation happen faster, (2) which he presumably takes from cooking – where fat can be used to temporarily increase the temperature in the oven and create a good external sear on food (such as meat) – and appears to show a belief that women have more fat than men do (which is broadly true). (3)
So, what we have here again is Tauber claiming that fat makes bodies cremate faster – which it doesn’t but in fact lengthens the time to cremate a body – (4) which the German authorities facilitated by shoving female corpses in as kindling and he clearly truly believe such nonsense even though it simply isn’t true.
The question really is: why do ‘Holocaust’ historians still use Tauber’s testimony given his sheer unreliability?
References
(1) https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=82890
(2) See my articles: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/remarkable-holocaust-nonsense-18 and https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/remarkable-holocaust-nonsense-19
(3) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302115755
(4) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/remarkable-holocaust-nonsense-18