Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #21: Eight Bodies at a Time in Cremation Ovens
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:
‘During the introduction of these other two corpses, I was able to observe the cremation process. It appeared that the trunk of the body rose and the arms stretched towards the sky before contracting. The same thing happened with the legs. The bodies became covered in blisters. Gassed bodies that had remained in the store room for two days were swollen, and in the fire their diaphragm burst and their intestines poured out. I was also able to observe how cremation proceeded while I was moving the corpses in the furnace with a fire iron, to accelerate the combustion. After each charging, the SS head of the Kommando checked to make sure that the furnaces were properly filled. We had to open each muffle for him and at that moment we could see what was happening inside. We burned the bodies of children with those of adults. First we put in two adults, then as many children as the muffle could contain. It was sometimes as many as 5 or 6. We used this procedure so that the bodies of children would not be placed directly on the grid bars, which were relatively far apart. In this way we prevented the children from falling through into the ash bin.’ (1)
Looking at Tauber’s testimony we can see two basic problems in that he is claiming that bodies of dead jews were stored in a store room – he means a morgue which was ironically the official designation of the so-called ‘purpose-built’ gas chambers of Auschwitz on their actual building plans that he is describing – before being moved to the cremation ovens to be disposed of.
This is a problem because we are forced to ask where the bodies of gassed/shot jews were being stored if they weren’t being stored in the morgues that are alleged to have been gas chambers. Clearly what Tauber is describing is a plausible scenario where the Germans are busy cremating the bodies of dead jews, but their capacity simply isn’t equal to the amount of dead jews.
This fits within a revisionist ‘Holocaust’ scenario quite well where Auschwitz is a main work camp surrounded by lots of other sub-camps, but which has a substantial problem with disease – notably typhus – derived from the early conditions, shortages brought on by the increasing constraints of the Second World War and the early German policy of confined jews to packed ghettos which triggered the sanitation operation better known as ‘Operation Reinhard’ between 1942 and 1943. In order to clean this mess up with the morgues being used for their stated purpose, but still obviously inadequate and bodies being cremated in normal rather than non-replicated much accelerated time frames.
It doesn’t fit into an orthodox ‘Holocaust’ scenario well at all since the Germans had control of how many jews were being gassed at any given point and had they had a backlog of bodies to cremate. They would have simply stopped gassing jews for a while and used those jews for (much needed) labour or they would have adopted other methods of body disposal such as mass graves and quicklime as they did elsewhere.
This orthodox scenario also posits that the Germans were cremating multiple bodies at a time – a look at the cremation ovens at Auschwitz would tell you this was quite impossible and ignores the basic science behind human creation (more organic matter means more cremation time as well as a high failure rate on the cremation ovens and as covered in a previous article the possibility of a fat-based fire) - (2) and/or these cremation ovens were working at unheard of efficiency before or since.
It also doesn’t explain – as before stated – where the bodies were being stored if they weren’t being stored in the official morgues on the plans which are alleged to have been gas chambers in the orthodox account.
It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense: now does it?
That’s why I adhere to a revisionist point of view precisely because the orthodox ‘Holocaust’ position is not only improbable but nigh impossible when combined with the available documentation and claimed death tolls.
Anyway, enough of that and let’s move on to the second problem with Tauber’s narrative in that he claims that two adult jews were shoved in a cremation oven at a time and then in addition five or six children were shoved in too ‘to maximize capacity’.
As we’ve already discussed this sounds great until you think about it as I’ve explained previously since putting circa eight bodies (two adults and six children) in one cremation oven would cause a similar effect due to the amount of additional tissue in the oven:
‘However, in human cremation – what Tauber was involved with rather than cooking humans for eating – the opposite is true in that someone who is larger (fat or otherwise) takes longer to successfully cremate simply because there is more tissue to combust which naturally takes longer.
As one funeral website puts it:
‘It generally takes about three hours to conduct a standard cremation, but a body with excessive fatty tissue can take much longer to cremate. This poses safety issues for the cremation equipment, as it must be able to handle the intensity of the heat over a longer period.’
Said ‘safety issue’ is when (very) obese people if not cremated correctly can actually cause - what is essentially - a grease fire – (3) rather like that can happen with a mishandled or malfunctioning deep fat fryer – which is possibly what Tauber is referring to, but it doesn’t lessen the time it takes to cremate a larger body. In actuality it lengthens it because the operators of the cremation oven have to put out said grease fire which – then as now – does (and would) require specialist equipment.’ (3)
Then there is the fact that clearly you can barely fit two adult humans in a cremation oven of the type used at Auschwitz as is shown by looking at scale photos of these ovens as they were found.
These two photos were taken at Dachau and show how impossible Tauber’s claim was:
That this was the case is shown by a photo of Auschwitz crematoria which also shows scale:
We can see that clearly you could barely fit a second body in the crematorium oven let alone six bodies of children in addition!
Thus, we can see that Tauber’s testimony viewed from a traditional ‘Holocaust’ narrative makes little sense but a lot of sense from a revisionist point of view, because Tauber directly contradicts ‘Holocaust’ orthodoxy by claiming in essence that the purpose-built morgues of Auschwitz were gas chambers, while the actual morgues were somewhere else entirely (without stating where) and that the Germans were also shoving circa eight bodies a time into each cremation oven despite their clear incapacity to accommodate so many bodies let alone the practical problems attendant to such a practice particularly if sustained over a long period of times as Tauber necessarily implies.
This then only makes sense if we acknowledge the fact that Tauber – who we know was part of the Auschwitz jewish Sonderkommando – essentially claims something physically impossible occurred, which in turn tells us that Tauber was likely lying to Sehn probably to get rewarded and lessen his own ‘guilt’ as a ‘jewish helper’ at Auschwitz.
References
(1) https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=82890
(2) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/remarkable-holocaust-nonsense-18
(3) Ibid.