Could a pile of human bodies 6 feet high be burned up completely?

Question

By putting them on a grill made of old rail road track two feet off the ground with wood piled under it?

How long would it take?

I am trying to determine how if they got their facts wrong in the video One third of the Holocaust. http://www.onethirdoftheholocaust.com This question was raised by chapter 15

No not murder planning. Truth seeking.

How much wood would it take?

Of course it could be done in a crematoria, but could it be done as described in the video?

Answer 1

yeah nuke um

With repeated kindling anything can burn, look at the world trade centers....people said they couldn't burn too........

Answer 2

Conceivably, yes. They could be burned, and were, into indefinable specks of matter.

Ever gone to a crematorium? Surely, your local mortuary could show you crematory remains in a bottle. Look for yourself at the results of a "controlled body burn."

As to how long would it take, you need to identify the environment - I.D the type of chamber, the type of wood, any leftover coals, what was the chamber's temp at the time of the burn, was oxygen added manually to the fire, if so, I.D. rate and amount.

Do you begin to get the idea? This is an excercise into nothingness. Millions died. We may never be able to generate a precise number. But, Babe, it surely happened.

If, still not convinced; take on a visit to Dachau, Bergen Belsen, Auschwitz, Birkenwald and many other death camps and you'll see living proof of the death chambers. But, as long as you're researching this, don't forget to look into those cheap death devices found by the simple use of carbon monoxide from a truck's exhaust, or in the costly Zyklon B tabs developed by I.G. Farben.

And, to be fair, we shouldn't ignore the deathly results brought about on the civilian population in Europe by the 8th Bomber Command stationed in the U.K. It was win at all costs. It's terrible that millions of civilians in that, and other campaigns, died.

And last but not least, if we're addressing the Holocaust, remember, it was not only Jews who were targetted for death. Think, too, of the millions who died at the hands of the Allies' partner - the Soviet Union - atrocities didn't only happen in the West.

Answer 3

To determine this rather grisly example, you'd need to know the mass of the bodies and the heat of the actual fire.

As to the validity of this Holocaust denial site, I wouldn't lay much stock in any of their garbage. The numbers for the holocaust aren't based solely on the records revealed at Nuremburg, much of it relies on three major points of evidence:
1. The population of Jews in Europe before WWII
2. The population of Jews in Europe after WWII
3. The comparative populations of imigrated Jews in other parts of the world.

As to the capacity of these facilities to burn 1 million bodies, I politely ask how many bodies were found in the firebombing of Dresden? The fires were so intense in vast tracts of the city that every remnant of bodies were vaporized. The ovens manufactured by the Nazis would be capable of a similar feat, just as efficient gas fired boilers throughout the united states are able to carbonize trash to a fine ash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

Don't waste too much of your time.

Answer 4

I couldn't watch the part you referred to........

As to the possibility that the holocaust could have taken place.... DUH!! there were thousands of witnesses and survivors... no one with a brain denies that it really happened!

Well one thing I can say for sure.... the notion that decomposing bodies... even LOTS of them buried near a well would automatically contaminate the ground water is just false.... its possible that the ground water COULD theoritically be contaminated by typhus or cholera but its not likely....when buried, a human body becomes lunch food for insects and worms and microbes which digest it pretty quickly. Unless it was a boggy, marshy area, ground water contamination is NOT a given.

Answer 5

Yes, human bodies burn easily because we are made out of organic components. Yes, they did cream-ate people in the holocaust.

If you read some really horrible things about the holocaust, that's because they really happened.

There are some people still alive to tell about it, and they are not lying. It really happened.

Take Care

Answer 6

I suppose they could be if left to burn long enough... What a morbid thought!

Answer 7

Oh, that sounds like a murder planing.

Answer 8

this is a VERY odd question. to get the most correct answer, i suggest you try it yourself in your own backyard. you might want to try to get the bodies from the nearest cementary and you should make sure that the bodies ur taking dont have flowers over the grave to make sure that their loved ones have forgotten about them.