5 lbs times 6 million is equal to 30,000,000 lbs right?

Question

The percent of water in the human body is 70 to 80%.

The average Jewish person in German concentration camps was 100 lbs between all the starving men, women, and children.

So if you put a body in an oven and burn it, the water evaporates, leaving 20-30% of the total mass, correct? Let's just say 5% just to prove my point.

So if you you multiply at least 5 lbs times 6 million people you get 30,000,000 lbs right?

Where did it all go? That's like making 120 elephants disappear.

Answer 1

Think of a coal plant, especially an older one. When coal is consumed to produce electricity tons and tons of particles are tossed up into the air and travel for miles around. There are reports of it raining ashes from the fires at the crematoriums. So send the ash up a smoke stack let the wind take it and disperse it around. That is most of the ash. The remainder just dump it into a pile, the wind will pick up the lose stuff.

The horrific thing about the cremation is that the Nazis ran out of room for the bodies. I should say one of the many evils that happened at the time.

Answer 2

SFAIK an adult man liberated from Stutthof camp weighed- alive-24 kilos. About 48 pounds if my calculations are OK.

water is not the only thing that evaporates. all organic tissues burn quite easily at the right temperature, leaving behind just about only the minerals from the bones and the teeth. Ask a funeral director how many ashes they hand over (and these are the ashes from the huge coffins also- not just naked bodies)

OK, even assuming you are correct as regards 5 pounds of dry mass, 30 milion pounds would make 15 milion tonnes. Sounds big, but consider there were several hundred concentration camps- some bigger, some smaller. Assume the number to be 500, all of equal size- gives you 30 thousand tonnes for each site. What did they do with it? depends. Stutthof experimented with making soap out of human bodies, and sold skeletons to science students. Aushvitz shaved hair for mattress fillings then simply burned the bodies and sold the ashes as fertilizer. Towards the end of the war they just dumped the "stock" into the nearby river, completely bocking the water flow in the process. And if you visit the camp- there are a couple hundred of tonnes of human ash still in the museum.

Answer 3

When fat people go on a diet, where does all that fat go? does it go to the land of the fairies?
Holocaust denial is a crime in my country for a very simple reason, only anti semitic small minded racist fools would even begin to contemplate it. If you want evidence open your mind not your eyes.

Answer 4

yeah the moisture evaporated in to the air like the air we're breathing and 5lbs times 6million is 30,000,000 lbs is right