Archie wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 5:41 pm
Nessie wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:17 am
Archie wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 4:46 pm
At first I thought this was a repetition of other threads, but Keen is actually raising a point that is often glossed over. The issue of "non-nefarious diggings" is something to keep in mind with the grave density discussions (where Holocaust promoters routinely assume every last inch of potential grave space must have been packed with bodies).
Wrong. BBC article on an interview with C S-C in 2012
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16657363
"This revealed the existence of a number of pits across the site. Some may be the result of post-war looting, prompted by myths of buried Jewish gold, but several larger pits were recorded in areas suggested by witnesses as the locations of mass graves and cremation sites."
You have clearly not bothered to read the reports and have created an invented version of what they say. The only person you fool, is yourself.
Straw-man.
I said "often glossed over," in reference to the debates on here. I did not say there has been no mention of anything like this, ever. Hence finding some mention of this does not contradict what I said.
Glossed over by whom, here? Name them and prove they gloss over the issue of grave robbers.
See below for the sort of thing I am criticizing. Notice that below you assume 100% of the soil disruptions were packed with bodies. See also your "Olympic swimming pools" nonsense in that same thread.
Nessie wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:23 am
Archie wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 6:22 am
... You are claiming 79-109 bodies per square meter, and you are acting like we are crazy for questioning this...
I posted this simple calculation before. Kola, 21,000m3 of disturbed ground found. Hofle, 434,000 sent to Belzec. Divide that number of people into the volume of disturbed ground and you get 0.048m3 per person, or 48 litres, or 12.7 US gallons. The average adult now is 62 litres. The corpses included many children and people smaller than they are now, plus since the corpses were piled on top of each other and decomposed, they were squashed down. I can see how that many people would fit.
A cubic meter is 1000 litres. At 48 litres per person, that is 20.8 corpses per square meter.
You take and create the most outlandish, complicated calculations regarding grave density, to form your argument from incredulity. If the simplest form of calculation is done based on known figures, the result is one that is not outlandish and your argument from incredulity fails.
The mass graves of Belzec are evidenced and would fit hundreds of thousands of corpses.
I showed you the simplest calculation possible, by dividing the number of corpses estimated to buried at Belzec, by the volume Kola provided. It was way less than what you suggested. You are not crazy for questioning how many corpses were buried at any camp. What you do is exaggerate, and find causes to fuel your incredulity, and then you fallaciously argue that proves nowhere near the estimated dead, were buried there.
How many naked corpses will fit into a grave, by slowly filling that grave over a period of months, possibly also introducing something corrosive to help with decomposition (as identified at Chelmno), is something that has never been fully studied, due to the impracticalities. If only the Nazis had left the graves intact, we would have a much better idea. The best evidence we have, are Kola's borehole samples from Belzec, that found corpses decompose into a mass he described as waxy fat transformation. That makes sense, as the corpses are under pressure, they initially produce heat and by descriptions of the smell, any gasses are escaping. With no clothing, the corpses decompose into each other, squashed together. Liquids can leach away into the ground, leaving fat, bone and crushed organs, with no gaps at all. Corpse density cannot be any higher than that scenario.
I think of it like the compost bin that seems to never get full, despite constantly dumping weeds, cuttings and plant material into it, as that material decomposes down to soil. Decomposition causes a huge reduction in the volume of material put into the bin. Since I do not have your sense of out-and-out incredulity, not wanting to believe the Nazis did murder hundreds of thousands at each of the AR camps, I can, since it is evidenced to have happened, believe that hundreds of thousands of corpses were buried at the camps. Like you, I just cannot get my head round how so many corpses could fit. But, I do not illogically use that doubt, to claim it did not happen.
Once the Nazis started to cremate corpses, there was no issue over space, since the ashes and cremains would easily fit, as cremation breaks down a corpse to about 5lbs. That is about 190lbs for an average male, down to 5lbs. It would appear, from the evidence, that burying naked corpses on top of each other, so they decompose together, also causes a significant reduction in density, the biochemistry of which we know little about.