Where would you put 55,000,000 lbs of ashes?

Question

11 million people, cremated, 5 lbs each afterwards.

Where would you put it? In the ground? Why hasn't anyone found this huge amount of ashes yet? Even if it's spread out, it's 55 MILLION pounds of ash. If it was released in the air, I think there would be a coat of ash over Germany about an inch thick.

My conclusion: the Holocaust was grossly exaggerated.

Answer 1

I think they packed the ash in your head.
Your math is poor to begin with.
Try spreading the ash all over Europe and Russia then figure 3 lbs per adult and 1 lb per child. Starvation sure thins the ash.
Oh... One more thing.
Try looking at photos of the prison camps then put your picture in the midst. Visualize yourself in a camp starving freezing and being tortured for being Juden,Polska, Ruske Or an American soldier. Treat yourself to a bit of history and climb into an oven.

Answer 2

Actually Poland was where all the death camps were/are,and the area would have to be covered by a bubble with no people walking in it to preserve the ashes of the cremated. It is now 60+ years after the Holocaust, and ash is easily absorbed into the ecosystem (think about a forest fire, it doesn't take long for the damage to be overrun by nature). Not all Holocaust victims were cremated. Many people died in their home towns, on the trains, starved to death running from the Nazi's etc...

The mission to eliminate the Jewish people and other people deemed undesirable to the Nazi's was quite successful, unfortunately. The Nazi's were bureaucratic, they kept records of all the Jews and people and where they sent them. I believe the numbers used to determine deaths were the records that the Nazi's kept.

We rejoice in the people who survived. Genocide is a horrible aspect of humankind it is a shame that should never happen. Check out the Shoah foundation's archives in the second link below of recordings of over 49,000 survivors of the Holocaust.

I suggest you try to find a class about Genocide and Holocaust studies, sign up and attend it. At the least, check out the Shoah foundation archives, listen to the stories. You will learn things beyond your wildest imagination and it might open your heart.

Peace.

Answer 3

Not everyone was creamted - a lot were gassed, shot, or hanged and buried in mass graves.

And where did you get the 5lbs of ash fact? People were emaniciated from starvation, not to mention the number of children that were killed. They wouldn't have left behind the same amount of remains as a healthy person.

And even if the Holocaust was exaggerated, the fact that it even happened should horrify you. It doesn't matter if one-thousand or eleven-million were killed. It still should not have happened.

Answer 4

55,000,000 lbs is 20 million kg. That's 20 billion cc (assuming it's like water). That's 20 mass graves , each 10 meters x 10 meters x 10 meters. Not that much to spread in a whole country. And that's not counting decay. And where does your 5lbs figure come from?

Answer 5

people have been burning fires for millions of years, jerse, creating billions of pounds of ash. i guess according to your silly logic the world should be by now covered with billions of pounds of ash, plus an extra 55 million pounds to account for the holocaust victims. where did all those billions of pounds of ash go, i wonder? only a ridiculous holocaust denier would be ineducated enough say that all of the victims were cremated, anyway.

Answer 6

Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable statements that many want to believe. In a day of mass communication, records, people still alive who can testify to what was seen . . . we have argumentative people who want to reduce what happened and pretend it was exaggerated or pretend it didn't happen. I wish my father did not die such an early death. He worked for intelligence and actually photographed at least one of the death camps. I would love to see somebody try to tell him that he was brainwashed or try to prove him ignorant or try to tell an honorable man that he was excitable and exaggerated facts.

I can understand when people try to question things that happened thousands of years ago, but people wanted to pervert the present day truth and buy into all these White Supremacy writings trying to denounce the Holocaust--isn't something I can understand or accept. The need to rewrite history proves mass communication, easy access to records and recording of history in multiple forms does not prevent people from trying to sanitize things to a more conscionable conclusion.

Forget the atheist versus religious arguments on this board. This just proves you can have every fact and prove something and there are still those who just can't accept proven truths.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I think it was more like six million and and I think 5 lbs.
is too much per person. My grandfather's ashes were temporarily in a cardboard container and his ashes didn't weigh that much. The ashes went into the ground in Poland and Germany.

Answer 9

No, it was not exaggerated.
Much of the ash was still present at the concentration camps in the sixties, when my parents went to Auschwitz and Dachau. The rest has either blown away or completely disintegrated.

Answer 10

To counter your claim.... Where did the 11,000,000 people go? If they weren't killed, then where are they?

Answer the survivors... where are their parents, their grandparents? 55 Million pounds of anything isn't hard to discard in the 20th century. How much trash do you think Americans generate in a single day?

Your lack of belief, and your stretching of credulity notwithstanding, it was an unfortumate and evil time perpetrated by an evil empire. There are those among us who still remember first-hand, and to forget is to allow it to come to pass again.