TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 22, 2025 2:03 pm
The results of this study, pertinent to the historical context analyzed here, can be summarized as follows:
1 - Self-sustaining burning of corpses on open-air pyres is not possible. In all circumstances investigated, corpses are always heat sinks in a fire, therefore, they require fuel to burn.
That claim is not backed up by the Dresden and Ohrdruf photos, which show how the wood is set alight under the corpses, the fire spreads to the corpses, which then burn down to some ashes and larger body parts.
2 - The denser the bodies are packed in a pyre, the less efficient the cremation. Best results are obtained with only a single layer of bodies, with the bodies spaced to allow the fire to fully develop and the flames to engulf the body.
The way the Dresden pyres were set in the photos, and from witness descriptions of the AR camp pyres, piling the corpses worked.
3 - Fuel efficiency is highest when only a portion of the firewood is placed under the corpse, and the remainder is added gradually as cremation progresses, to keep the fire alive and the corpse engulfed. Under these conditions, "a minimum of 5 times the body weight in dry wood is required to achieve near-complete destruction of all organic matter (<10%)."
4 - If all the wood is piled under the corpse and the pyre is left unattended, the fuel requirement increases to a "minimum of nine times the body weight in dry wood, which is necessary to achieve near-complete destruction of all organic matter (<10%)."
The photos of the Dresden pyres and descriptions of the AR camp pyres, prove that a pyre set as seen, will burn itself, with no additional need for wood.
5 - A complete destruction of nearly 100% would require additional firewood.
That is correct, as the pyres did not completely cremate the corpses down to ashes.
This is the basis of the experiment by Yermàn et al.
You say that, because you do not want to accept the evidence from the photos of, and witnesses to pyres.
Considering that most of the corpses had been buried recently, they would have less fat to aid in cremation compared to those recently sacrificed during gassing. Therefore, their bodies would be relatively more moist than flammable in fat content, requiring more fuel than if they were recently killed.
So, little wood or infinite benzene, or whatever, needs to be proven by witnesses and documents, which is not the case, unless the scale of cremation and the nature of that cremation are infinitesimal rather than total, collapsing the entire narrative of a genocide of millions.
That is the logically flawed argument from incredulity. Just because you cannot work out how the pyres were possible, does not therefore mean there were no pyres. There is evidence from photos, eyewitnesses and circumstances, of mass pyres.