Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #20: Roasting Jewish Dentists Alive in Cold Cremation Furnaces
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:
‘The dentists, recruited from among the prisoners, looked into all the mouths except those of the children. When the jaws were too tightly clamped, they pulled them apart with the pincers used to extract the teeth. The SS carefully checked the work of the dentists, always being present. From time to time they would stop a load of corpses ready for charging into the furnace and already operated on by the dentists, in order to check the mouths. They occasionally found a forgotten gold tooth. Such carelessness was considered to be sabotage, and the culprit was burned alive in the furnace. I witnessed such a thing myself. A dentist, a French Jew, was burned in this way in Krematorium V. He fought and cried, but there were several SS and they threw themselves on him, overpowered him and put him in the furnace alive. This punishment was often inflicted on members of the Sonderkommando, but it was not the only one. There were many others, such as immediate shooting, being thrown into water, physical torture, beating, being rolled naked on gravel, and other punishments. Such things were done in the presence of all the members of the Sonderkommando in order to intimidate them. I remember another case that took place in August 1944 in Krematorium V. When the shifts were changing over, they had found a gold watch and wedding ring on one of the labourers, a man from Wolbrom called Lejb. This Jew, aged about twenty, was dark and had a number of one hundred thousand and something. All the Sonderkommando working in the crematorium (Kr V) were assembled, and before their eyes he was hung, with his hands tied behind his back, from an iron bar above the firing hearths. He remained in this position for about one hour, then after untying his hands and feet, they threw him in a cold crematorium furnace. Gasoline was poured into the lower ash bin and lit. The flames reached the muffle where this Lejb was imprisoned. A few minutes later, they opened the door and the condemned man emerged and ran off, covered in burns. He was ordered to run round the yard shouting that he was a thief. Finally, he had to climb the barbed wire, which was not electrified during the day, and when he was at the top, the head of the crematoriums, Moll, first name Otto, killed him with a shot.’ (1)
There are several things to notice about Tauber’s testimony here in that the immediate context is the employment of jewish dentists by the SS authorities at Auschwitz to extract golden teeth from dead jews who had been gassed before they were cremated.
Why the SS would have needed dentists to do such work when anyone with a heavy blunt object could have achieved the same effect is unstated and unknown but anyway.
The reasons the SS would have been searching for golden teeth is obvious enough in that gold was valuable – even in such small quantities – and would add up even if only a significant minority of jews had one or more golden teeth and thus would help the Third Reich’s exchequer pay the costs of fighting the Second World War which jews had played – at least in the belief of the Third Reich – a significant part in starting and expanding.
Thus, despite how gory and nasty it sounds – remember Allied soldiers also extracted golden teeth from enemies as well when they noticed as such and as such wasn’t limited to the German concentration camp system – it was a quite rational and pretty universal policy among the belligerents of the Second World War and most other wars.
Tauber then tells us that the SS severely punished jews who did a bad job and ‘missed’ a golden tooth. He gives one general example and one very specific example.
The general example is the claim that a French jewish dentist was cremated alive in Crematorium V for this crime as well as stipulating a list of ‘torture punishments’ that were allegedly doled out to malefactors by the SS at Auschwitz.
Naturally the only ‘evidence’ of this we have is Tauber’s ‘eyewitness testimony’ but – as I’ve already documented with Tauber’s claims to have seen ‘pits of boiling human fat’ (2) and that ‘fat people burn faster’ – (3) he is not a reliable witness despite genuinely apart from the jewish Sonderkommando at Auschwitz.
Turning to Tauber’s very specific claim that:
‘In August 1944 in Krematorium V. When the shifts were changing over, they had found a gold watch and wedding ring on one of the labourers, a man from Wolbrom called Lejb. This Jew, aged about twenty, was dark and had a number of one hundred thousand and something. All the Sonderkommando working in the crematorium (Kr V) were assembled, and before their eyes he was hung, with his hands tied behind his back, from an iron bar above the firing hearths. He remained in this position for about one hour, then after untying his hands and feet, they threw him in a cold crematorium furnace. Gasoline was poured into the lower ash bin and lit. The flames reached the muffle where this Lejb was imprisoned. A few minutes later, they opened the door and the condemned man emerged and ran off, covered in burns. He was ordered to run round the yard shouting that he was a thief. Finally, he had to climb the barbed wire, which was not electrified during the day, and when he was at the top, the head of the crematoriums, Moll, first name Otto, killed him with a shot.’ (4)
When we read the above, we can note that it sems very specific that a jew named Lejb from the Polish town of Wolbrom was caught stealing a gold watch and wedding ring. He was then hung above the ‘firing hearths’ in Crematorium V then thrown tied up into a cold crematory oven – note this was a cold oven which already puts the ‘Holocaust’ narrative into problems because it suggests that the crematorium (or at least crematorium V) were not running almost twenty four hours a day which leaves less time and capacity for the numbers of cremated jews claimed – and then the SS threw petrol in the ash bin below the crematory oven then set it on fire.
After essentially roasting Lejb for a few minutes before he was allowed out of the oven covered in (presumably third degree) burns; he was then ordered to run around the yard shouting he was a thief before finally being told he had to climb the (conveniently non-electrified) barbed wire before an SS man named Otto Moll shot him.
In the first instance, this is clearly an implausible story given that generally speaking third degree burns victims who have just been essentially roasted in an oven for minutes after being pre-roasted over a fire for an hour aren’t going to be very mobile due to the blisters and pain involved with such burns.
In the second instance, throwing precious petrol (which remember there was a massive shortage of in Germany) into an ash pan in late summer 1944 in order to cook a jew as a punishment is both unlikely (a waste of precious resources and liable to cause Otto Moll to be tried by an SS judge such as Konrad Morgen had done for just this kind of offence the previous summer) and liable to cause damage to the crematory oven mechanism (thus rendering the crematory oven potentially inoperable at a critical time in the alleged ‘Holocaust’).
In the third instance, if Moll was seeking to punish Lejb for stealing the gold watch and the wedding ring why did he so elaborately kill him and not use the perfectly effective and just as nasty ‘torture punishments’ that Tauber describes just a few lines above to do so.
Tauber’s testimony just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when we break it down as it violates the historical context (the petrol shortage and also SS Judge Konrad Morgen’s visit of mid-1943 and charging of a ranking SS officer at Auschwitz - Maximillian Grabner – with the murder of 2,000 inmates and corruption), suggests the SS damaged their own cremation equipment for no reason and also sounds like a great propaganda horror story but makes little practical sense as a punishment.
Thus it is clear that Tauber is once again here also spouting complete ‘Holocaust’ nonsense.
References
(1) https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=82890 also https://www.historiography-project.org/1945/05/
(2) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/remarkable-holocaust-nonsense-19
(3) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/remarkable-holocaust-nonsense-18
(4) https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=82890 also https://www.historiography-project.org/1945/05/