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Imagine a person today who dies. They're going to weigh on average 80 kg. If they're cremated they'll be wearing a full set of clothes, and be in a coffin, and
by DanBC 6y ago
Imagine a person today who dies. They're going to weigh on average 80 kg. If they're cremated they'll be wearing a full set of clothes, and be in a coffin, and they'll be cremated on their own. There will be a full combustion. Afterwards their remains will go through checking to remove large metal items (hips, knees, metal from the coffin or clothing) and then the remains will go through a grinder and packaged and given back to the family.
Now imagining all the people who died in the death camps.
They were malnourished and famished. They would have weighed maybe 40 - 50 kg. They weren't in coffins. They were naked. There would have been multiple corpses per crematoria burning. There may not have been full combustion. The remains went through big industrial grinders, and after that the remains were spread on fields.
Yes, it's fucking obvious that the Nazis used different cremation methods in the genocidal campaign than we use today.