47. If six million people had been incinerated by the Nazis, what
happened to the ashes?

Ernst Zündel Replies:
Rebuttal #
47:

Even the premise to this question is inaccurate: the number
of people supposedly "murdered by the Nazis" has been quoted in various
publications as ten million and more. Broken down, this inaccurate claim has
been for years and years that this meant "six million Jews and four million
others . . . " which were supposed to include, but were not limited to, Poles,
Gypsies, Russians, homosexuals, criminals, the handicapped, and others.

Not all of these could have been or would have been cremated. A sizable
percentage must have been buried in mass graves or eliminated in some other way.

But strangely enough, no mass graves of victims of the Nazis of a size
that would rival the ones discovered at Katyn (a series of mass graves of
Stalin's victims) have ever been located - though the deaths due to disease at
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the war and the collection of
mass graves in which these bodies were buried, is bigger.

All of them
are supposed to have been incinerated - at a time when the shortage of fuel was
so serious in war-torn Germany that not even kindergarten classes and nurseries
for orphaned toddlers were heated.

As Revisionists have said, and proven
before, the number of bodies cremated at "the Nazi death camps" is officially
shrinking and - in the case of Auschwitz - at a rate that makes some Holocaust
historians highly uncomfortable. Consequently, as the body count shrinks, so
should the "amount" of "missing ashes."

Look at it this way: According
to repeated calculations, the human ash left from cremation weighs about 5.8
pounds for a woman and 7.4 pounds for a man. Depending on the number of victims
claimed to have been cremated, something on the order of fifteen million pounds
of ash would have to have been produced-occupying about 3.7 million cubic feet
of space!

The stories about the ashes are wild. According to the postwar
testimony of Hoess and others-prisoners who had been tortured to come up with
some answers-the ashes at Auschwitz were pounded into a powder and dumped into
rivers and ponds. That kind of amount of ash would have clogged even a
strong-flowing river.

At Treblinka, the ash is supposed to have been
mixed in with the sandy soil there, but this has never been shown to be true.

At Belzec and the other locations, the ash was supposedly buried on
site. It should be simple enough to prove that the ashes are buried at these
locations. Why has this not ever been done?

Since archeologists are
recovering stone age cremains from around Stone Henge, it is safe to assume
these fifty-year-old cremains are still there somewhere. For some unexplained
reason, no forensic excavations of these sites were ever done.

Specific
claims that Nizkor makes about human ash having been used as fertilizer does not
have respectable documentation ever presented to anyone, to my knowledge. If
such photos of piles and mountains of human ashes exist, Nizkor ought to have
cited the source.

When were those photos taken, if they exist? By
whom?

The Zundelsite recently posted a ZGram that makes my argument as
well as anything. Here it is, paraphrased, as taken from a conversation with a
British citizen:

"In Britain, we have a supposed danger from BSE infected cattle. It has
been proposed to kill and incinerate 180,000 of the animals.

Guess
what? There is a logistical problem.

There are not enough slaughter
houses, and the cremation is a formidable problem. It is thought by the
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food that it will take up to three years
to dispose of the cattle.

This, in a modern country-with no secrecy,
lots of money, no war, no disruptions, and the very latest equipment to be
used!

Would you think it reasonable to suppose that a cow would equal
four or five people? If so, that means 180,000 X 4 = 720,000 human
equivalents. The cows will not attempt to escape, or attack their captors. In
other words: docile, the perfect prey.

Remember, the slaughter of
cattle happens every day, always has. So, there is no need for new killing
techniques, new types of disposal. Yet, it will still take a modern country 3
YEARS!!

In 1967 there was an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in the
British Midlands. At every infected farm, the cattle were killed and
incinerated on the spot. There were "only" a few thousand cattle affected, but
the lime pits were of enormous proportions, as were the bonfires.

It
was not thought necessary to transport cattle from one part of the country to
another for slaughter and disposal. Yes, the pit locations are known to this
day, and I am sure that farmers would be willing for "deniers" to take core
samples from these areas.

It is next to impossible to "lose" a burial
pit within half a century - otherwise, what would happen to the science of
archeology (in particular the technique of finding "worked" land by aerial
photography)?

Yet, the pits of the "death camps" are not accurately
located. Why not?

The whole story of the Holocaust replete with "human
ashes" is full of holes. It might be reasonable to hypothesize that a large
number of Jews, let's say several hundred thousand, were killed by the most
diabolical methods by the Germans. But no, we're not allowed to believe that!
We have a huge number thrust onto us time after time with nothing sensible,
nothing scientific to back it up.

Who does this?

Those with an
interest in the myth continuing."

The summary point to be made is this: Finding an excuse for not having
proof does not in any way replace having such a proof.

There have been
NO mountains of ashes. None. Had there been, you may be sure we would have heard
of it. Ad nauseam. The one socalled symbolic mountain of ash under the Mausoleum
in Majdanek is a pile of ordinary sand covered with about 1/4 to 1/8 wood ashes!
Another deception of a gullibble public who emotions are being exploited by
these Holocaust conmen.