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https://www.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7228/manchester/9780719096020.001.0001/upso-9780719096020-chapter-6

"this resulted in a total daily cremation capacity in Auschwitz-Birkenau of 4,416 corpses per day"

if this was implemented then getting through a few million was theoretically achievable

apparently gassing was the quickest part

" 2,000 head in a half-hour"

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Looks more like the setup for a small scale morgue/cremation, which you would probably require in every work camp

If you want to do this as efficiently as possible, you don't do it anything like that, way too many steps and handling of material. I'm sure Germans had been aware of Ford's production line ideas since 1913

You'd also need a crusher for the bones.

I'd need to see the layout for the other camps to see if this is just some cherry picked one, but at first glance that looks unworkable

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Looked more like, come in this room, take clothes off we burn them to get rid of lice. Stand in that room, get deloused, go to the next room to get your new clothes. Leave for the next group to enter.

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You wouldn't need two burners for clothes though?

It takes a few hours to cremate a body, so you might need two for a normal camp morgue. I can't see how you could cremate a room full of bodies with just the two, you'd be there all week

Buchenwald seems to have a set of six, rough calculations suggest 30 deaths per day, so all of them burning 10hrs a day might keep up.

If they died at the same rate in Auschwitz then it seems a bit pointless to gas them, two burners would barely be able to keep up with routine work camp deaths?

It's possible that some were killed this way, but they don't look particularly geared up for that, and certainly if that was the intention from the start then you would have seen this designed as a production line with hundreds of burners?

Auschwitz had four crems I think, I read that in late 1944 10,000 jews were burnt per day, this seems hard to reconcile with hardware available. Is there a proper analysis of this anywhere? much of it is a bit vague and it's assumed you already are willing to take it all at face value. If you can really do 10,000 a day, why not do it industrially if genocide was a such a priority? it all seems a bit half assed

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Germans over engineer things. I would guess primary function is to burn clothes. But also works to burn corpse to prevent dis-ease

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They should have built their camps over active volcanoes.