Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #16: Human Fat Drainage Channels at Auschwitz
Returning back to an older series of articles on the remarkable nonsense that was (and often still is) claimed about the so-called ‘Holocaust’. This particular one was furnished to me as ‘evidence’ of the ‘Holocaust’ quite seriously by some trying to argue against me on X (formerly Twitter) and I thought I’d share it.
‘The Manchester Guardian’ – now just ‘The Guardian’ – published a story from its ‘special correspondent’ about the ‘Holocaust’ on 2nd October 1945 where we read that:
‘At Berkenau, a sector of the main camp, there were, stated witness, four crematoriums, each equipped with two gas chambers. But their capacity became insufficient and an additional system was devised by digging large trenches, some 12 yards by six, in which the bodies were burned, and to expedite matters channels were cut at the bottom of the trenches to drain away the human fat.
It was part of his Kommando's work to prepare these pits each day by laying huge wood fires saturated with petrol, and by this system it was possible to dispose of one thousand bodies an hour as against one thousand a day in a crematorium.’ (1)
Now ‘The Manchester Guardian’ is clearly referring to Auschwitz Birkenau – hereafter just Auschwitz – where-in they are trying to explain away what we’d now term the ‘cremation problem’ in the study of the so-called ‘Holocaust’.
What do I mean by that?
Well at a very early junction in the promotion of the theory of the ‘mass extermination of the jews’ the proponents were forced to confront a very large problem with their claim which was simply: it is one thing for the Germans to killed six million jews but how on earth did they get rid of all those bodies since we can’t find them?
Early proponents of the theory realised – quite reasonably I might add - that their claims about the cremation capacity of Auschwitz and other sites like it simply didn’t stack up with the numbers of dead jews they claimed had been liquidated and since they didn’t have the bodies they must have gone somewhere.
Thus, they quite reasonably tried to come up with various different alternative ‘explanations’ about where the bodies had gone or how the Germans had achieved such hugely efficient mass cremations.
This report is one of the latter.
The interesting thing about it is that seems superficially plausible to anyone who doesn’t know very much about plumbing, sewerage and/or human cremation. After all you can burn large numbers of bodies in pits to be sure, but it doesn’t cause human fat to run out in large amounts especially if you are just using a bit of petrol and wood since human beings aren’t actually flammable and the heat produced wouldn’t be sufficient or sustained enough to produce actual cremation.
Further if you dug channels or slit trenches to drain away the ‘human fat’ then what you’d actually get are what are called ‘fatbergs’ in modern sewers because fat quickly cools, congeals and then solidifies. So, if you pour out large amounts of fat into open channels it will quickly cool and probably repeatedly block the channels inside of a day so you’d have to have people spending all day breaking it up but that still doesn’t answer where on earth the ‘human fat’ was disposed of given there would have been hundreds of tonnes of it.
Was it made into ‘human soap’ or?
You see all this is why you are told not to pour hot fat used in or produced by cooking into the sewer system because it is extremely difficult to break up, builds up quickly and renders the sewer system useless unless frequent specialist maintenance is conducted.
Thus we can see that despite the ‘special correspondent’ of ‘The Manchester Guardian’s’ best efforts to create a workable system of mass body disposal at Auschwitz: his suggestion simply doesn’t work in any practical form and sounds more like an fantasy derived from reading too many horror novels rather than reality.
References
(1) The Manchester Guardian, ‘Doctor describes routine of gas chambers’, 2nd October 1945 (https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/Story/0,,127738,00.html)