@cicerone imposter,
Quick walk through. Reference the numbers in the picture. This is a design lay out isometric view of one Auschwitz crematorium.
8. This area was where the prisoners were brought in referred to as the changing room. It was under ground so at the upper end of the picture is a set of stairs leading up and outside of the building.
The prisoners were brought down the steps and into changing room where their clothes were taken away and their heads shaved. They were given prisoner uniforms at this point as well.
Once complete they were led toward room 5. Notice how cramped the area is.
There are two small hall ways that link room 8 to room 5. As claimed 2000 prisoners would have to be led from 8 to 5 to get into room 9.
9. This room is considered to be the "gas" chamber even though on all of the german design documents it is referred to as the delousing chamber.
This is where all the clothing confiscated from room 8 would end up as claims by the germans. However the other claims are that it was the gas chamber.
2000 people at a time were claimed to have been crammed into room 9. There are vents in the ceiling that were used to toss down the zyklon b to kill the prisoners with.
The center columns of room 9 are where the vents are. The claims that guards were on the roof of the building and would open hatches and toss down the zyklon b. A convenient story since the vents doubled as exhaust vents for the gas.
Mind you room 9 is also underground.
Once the gas was ventilated and the prisoners were dead the bodies had to be removed from room 9 by going back into room 5 and use the elevator 6.
6. The lift elevator is a small cramped location that wouldn't hold very many bodies at a time. But it is the only way to get into the crematory room 1.
2000 bodies had to be removed from room 9 and into room 5 and then up the lift 6. All of this would have been done by hand. I doubt bodies were carried by one worker. It would probably require two workers per body to carry them. With the cramped space I doubt there were more than two workers but that could be argued.
1. The crematory housed 15 cremators. The claims were that 4 or 5 bodies were piled into each at a time so the total would be either 60 to 75 bodies burned at the same time.
People involved in cremation of human bodies were interviewed and provided photographs of the crematory and even they claimed there wasn't enough space to cram in 4 or 5 bodies. At the most 2 could be placed in each.
Not only that but each body would require two hours of burning but if there were two bodies it would take longer.
So realistically only 30 bodies could be burned at a time. This leaves 1970 corpses left to burn after 2 or 2.5 hours.
It would require 130 hours to completely destroy 2000 bodies. This is assuming that it required 2 hours to burn 30 bodies at a time.
This means it required 5.4 days to burn 2000 bodies.
This means they could only cremate 12,000 bodies a month.
It means 144,000 a year.
There was only a 5 year time line from 1940 to the end of the war.
In the 5 year span a max of 720,000. Far short of a million.
Let me remind you. This would mean for 5 years straight non stop they would have to be bringing in prisoners, and sending them to the chambers immediately. No down time. If you add in the photographing, the head shaving, the clothing and the escorting it adds in more time needed to complete the job.
Not a very efficient plan at all.
You could suggest they used other methods such as digging trenches and tossing bodies into the pits. However you can't just toss a match into the pit and expect them to burn.
You could also dig trenches and just toss the bodies in and then bury it. They wouldn't have used this method because it would have polluted the ground water. The germans living in the camp used well water and this would have been polluted. Not only that but the water table in the area was extremely close to the surface. Making ground contaminates easier to spread.
Even if you were to add up all the camps who had crematories you can't get a 6 million figure.
Not only that but Auschwitz has been given the title where most of the deaths occured.
But just to humor the extreme case. Let's examine if the 6 bodies claim could be true.
It would then require 2.13 days to burn all 2000 bodies.
2.13 days. = 2000
This means 28k a month.
28,169 a month.
This means 338k a year.
338,028 a year
This means 1.6 million in 5 years.
1,690,140 in 5 years.
Far short of the 6 million mark.
Remember this would mean the best case possible scenario. It means the prisoners would have to be non stop moving into the camp. The trains would have to be constantly delivering new prisoners. They would have to immediately get brought in and processed. Photos taken, heads shaven, clothed and escorted.
It would be a 24 hour non stop process for 5 years straight. How realistic is that? This doesn't even take into consideration the time that bodies would be laying around waiting to be burned. That means for an entire two day span bodies would be laying around. What about the smell? What about flies? The crematory would reek of death that the next incoming group wouldn't be alarmed?
Not to mention groups of prisoners would have to over lap to make it work. This means while they were burning bodies they were sending more prisoners to their deaths.
Some argue there were additional crematories on the camp. Yes this is true but there was only two in operation. The third was never completed. The german guards also claim that crematory 1 (the other functioning building) was never used. Crematory 2 was the only one in operation according to many claims from guards.
Even if all three were working or in operation that still only makes the total 4.8 million at Auschwitz. But remember this would mean it was a non stop process. 24 hour every day for 5 years straight to get this number.
Not only is it short of the mark it is unrealistic.
Sure you could say there were other camps destroying bodies in the same method. Two camps running the same time could easily total over the 6 million mark. But this still takes into consideration that they would have to run non stop for 5 years straight.
It is simply not realistic that Auschwitz was the death camp that it is made out to be. When guards testimony and known details do not hold up to the claims.
It doesn't mean that they didn't have deaths. Sure there were many deaths from disease and malnutrition. To prevent the spread of disease the germans burned the corpses since putting them into the ground would pollute the water source.
I wanted to add another visual to help you understand the process. Refrence this video to show the 3d version of the lay out and process.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3EeTFtYr5E