reply to post by sir_chancealot
If I must....
In the camp there were 6 Cremation units.
120 Burning chambers in total.
3 bodies per chamber.
Ovens running 12 hours a day, with new bodies being burnt every 30 minutes.
So thats 120*3 = 360 bodies per half hour, but lets say, for the sake of it, that it takes an hour.
And lets say, for the sake of it, that the ovens worked for 12 of the 24 hours available, with 12 hours downtime.
360x12=4320 bodies every 12 hours.
Lets say, for the sake of it, that the ovens only ran half a year.
4320x182.5, thats a capability of 788,400 bodies per year.
The camp ran at its full capacity from 43-45, but started in 1942, so lets assume that a third of that yearly figure occurred in '42.
So. 788,400/3 = 262,800 in 1942
And in 1943, 788,400
And in 1944, 788,400
788,400+788,400+ 262,800 = 1,839,600 from 42 to the end of 44.
Hey - lets say it takes two hours to burn 360 bodies shall we? (such a happy fun subject huh?
), we'll divide that figure in half. So...thats
919,800 people.
And thats with the ovens running at half capacity, half the year, thus giving plenty of "downtime" for maintenance, and not including the burning of
bodies in outdoor pits.
It also fits in with the "conservative" estimates of 1.1-1.5 million killed at Auschwitz.
So thats Auschwitz.
Theres Dachau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek to take into account for the overall total figures as well.
People can dispute the numbers, if they really want to - and no doubt they will - you could say - for example that my 1942 figure is high (maybe so,
as only two ovens were running until the Spring 1943 "refurbishment"). Anyway round, your just playing a game with numbers and trying to "limit"
the extent of the genocide.
Even if it was "just" a million people, its genocide. Its still disgusting. It still needs to be remembered and those who carried it out, their
mindset and their ilk need to be taught about to prevent something like that occuring again.
Like I said earlier, there is only one reason why people choose to argue against that, and it has no place in a modern society where everyone is
equal.
[edit on 15/0408/08 by neformore]
[edit on 15/0408/08 by neformore]
