Holocaust Denialists think the Holocaust is impossible because they cannot do multiplication

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[–]boston_blackie 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why would a country fighting a war on so many fronts commit to using so much fuel for this burning you speak of. What fuel did they use? Coal ? wood? , diesel, gasoline, kerosene? It just doesn't make sense to prioritize the use of fuel for burning Jews to be higher than that of fueling planes, tanks, cars, trucks etc. especially since they were fighting Russia, their supply lines were stretched incredibly thin. Its inconceivable to me that the Germans would sideline fuel away from the war effort for this.

[–]weavilsatemyface[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Why would a country fighting a war on so many fronts commit to using so much fuel for this burning you speak of.

Because the country was run by racists who were obsessed with destroying the Jews and other undesirables even at the cost of everything else.

What fuel did they use?

Mostly human fat and flesh. They only needed a small amount of fuel to start the fire going. Once it was hot enough, even emaciated people with little or no fat on them will sustain a fire.

The fuel used by the trains to transport people to the camps was far more significant than the small amount used to run the crematoria.

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That doesn't sound scientific at all. Are you suggesting that the concentration camp inmates were so fat that their fat fueled the fire that cremated their bodies?

[–]weavilsatemyface[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most of the people murdered in the extermination camps, and then burned, were not "concentration camp inmates". They were arrested, held for only a few days at most, put on a train to the camp, where they were unloaded and gassed within a few hours. They would be hungry and a bit dehydrated from the train journey (they were not given food or water) but they still had normal levels of fat for a healthy person in the 1940s.

Its not just the fat that provided heat, protein does too. Almost everything aside from water and bone will generate heat on combustion in the human body. The average human body contains 125000 calories, which is almost double what you need to completely boil 30 kg of water. With just a bit of fuel needed to to prime the pump, so to speak, the process is completely self-sustaining. One normal healthy body contains enough fuel energy to completely burn itself to ash, plus enough left over to ignite one or two more bodies. Even emaciated bodies contain enough fuel to burn themselves to ash, and they're easier to ignite because they don't have as much water.

Human corpses are hard to ignite, but once you manage it, they burn like the blazes.