As I said, I get only 7%, as it is a low number.Callafangers wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 11:47 pmYes, Nessie, that's how this works. Core-drilling a grid pattern is not a form of legitimate mapping (as is excavation) -- it is a form of reconnaissance. Kola went about sampling the Sobibor Camp III site on a per-hectare basis and of his drills per hectare, he is at about a 7% hit rate (correction from 6%; 128/1805 = ~7%). In other words, only 7% of the areas he chose to reconnoiter had drill positives -- his reconnaissance had a 7% success rate.Nessie wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 8:21 amInteresting use of the word "only". I get only 6%, but not only 69%.Callafangers wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 6:24 pm ...There was only a 6% hit rate (positive drills) per hectare, and only a 69% hit rate even within the "graves" drawn. Mazurek consistently shows sparse remains where Kola had indicated dense saturation, explicitly documenting findings as 'patchy', 'barren', 'thin layers', etc., across all major graves....
You are missing my point, 69% is a high number, so referring to it as only, is deceptive and inaccurate.As for his 69%, you are missing the point.
How do you know that? How arbitrary, is conducting bore hole samples in the area of the camp, witnesses stated the mass graves were located?Kola drew his grave boundaries arbitrarily around perceived clusters
Conducting extra drills in areas where remains were found, is reasonable, to more accurately determine the size of those areas. Were the 31% of negative drills, within areas of positive ones, or were they clustered?.. for which their total number of drills was 185. Given the spacing of 5m apart and the fact Kola biases the sampling/positive rate by conducting extra drills in positive areas, this is already a stretch (or violation) in terms of extrapolation to a certain grave density. But taking it a step further, Kola simply omits the fact that almost one-third (31%, or 57 drills) of his samples within those "graves" were completely negative!
How is 69% "only"? In any exam, 69% is a good pass.
That is your invented logic, that you falsely attributed to me. Straw man. Now, deal with my actual point, of your claim that an empty pit is evidence few were buried at the camp, whilst failing to provid a history of that pit. Why was it dug? Was anything buried in it and then removed? Was it dug to take corpses, that were then cremated instead?Only you would say that an empty pit is evidence of a full pit. Ridiculous. Even if one accepts your absurd logic (empty pit as evidence), you still need to explain where the emptied contents actually ended up, since they are not in the grave.Nessie wrote:Wrong, his assumptions are based on what he found. The Nazis dug a huge pit and then left little to nothing in it. Of course, you are not interested in what that is, or at least trying to evidence a chronological narrative that explains it. You are only interested in reinforcing your desired belief, that far fewer people were buried at the camp, than the evidence from eyewitnesses, documents and circumstances proves.Nessie, you know better than this: none of these claims from Mazurek are evidenced. The inferences he draws here are based on his assumptions of the orthodox history, having nothing to do with his findings.
There is nothing in the quote to support your conclusion.Kola's full description of Grave 2:Nessie wrote:Is a crematory grave, one that cremains were buried in, or one when cremations took place?...No -- it is a fact that Kola uses the blanket description of Grave 2 as a "crematory grave" (direct quote), only for Mazurek to audit this via excavation and determine only scattered remains. There is no ambiguity here.
There are no reports of cremation pyres therein. He is describing it as being of human cremation contents.Grave No. 2. Located in the western part of hectare XVII, south of the monument-mound. It was marked by 28 holes. Its horizontal grid is irregular, with an area of at least 20 x 25 m – with the longer edge aligned north-west – and a depth of approximately 4.00 m. It is a cremation grave.
How is open minded research, that takes all evidence into account, to produce a chronological narrative of what took place, "goofy nonsense"? Your methodology, of looking only at the forensic evidence, and ignoring the rest of the evidence and then failing to explain what took place and why, is "goofy nonsense". It is unique to so-called revisionism, to conduct enquiries that fail to establish and prove what happened, and instead, produced a negative non-history. It is why you really are just a denier.Nessie, this is more goofy nonsense. Mazurek can 'suggest' whatever he wants, you can too -- no one cares. We are studying the forensics, here. I am not "finding reasons to believe" anything other than what is described and documented in the forensic investigations. You are deflecting onto witness narratives and the like because you know the forensic case is failing you, 100%.Nessie wrote:It also matters to Mazurek, as he suggests potential reasons why the Nazis dug large pits, that now have little to nothing in them. You are not interested in an open minded research into the purpose of and activity inside the camp, you are only interested in finding reasons to believe there are few remains there.'Disturbed ground' is hardly accounted for by anyone, since it proves nothing. It only matters to you, for some strange reason (?).
It depends on where the negative drills were, compared to the positive ones. If they are intermingled, then yes, the buried cremains are patchy. At 69% positive, they are not sparse.69% is definitely "only" when the graves are drawn in such a way that presents them as 100% -- which is exactly what Kola did. Anything less than 100% suggests incontiguity. Being far less than 100% (e.g. 69%) confirms sparseness/patchiness at most (completely invalidating the larger 'grave' drawing, especially given postwar mixing/dilution).Nessie wrote:69% is not "only".
If a grave full of corpses, has all the corpses removed and then cremated and the cremains are mixed with the earth that had been removed to make the pit and it is refilled, I would expect it to be patchy. I would expect some drills would be negative.
I would expect it to be more like 70-80% earth and 20-30% cremains, to refill the grave pit. That would mean and explain why, some drills came back negative for cremains.Okay, your final answer is that the Nazis mixed all cremains with sand. What percentage are you conceding, here? Did they do a 50/50 mix? If so, that is 50% of the grave volume gone, unavailable for 'grave' (corpse/ash) calculations -- *poof*.Nessie wrote:It is my final answer.If the Nazis 'mixed cremains' then you are extra-screwed, since now you are admitting that all corpse remains throughout the area will be a volume that is only partly crematory remains, always diluted by other materials. Is this your final answer?
You are 100% biased as you are determined to conclude few corpses were were buried at Sobibor. You called an open minded, evidenced based chronology, "goofy". But that is how all criminal and historical investigations work, gathering evidence to find out what happened. You refer to 69% inaccurately as "only" and you do not bother to look for reasons and evidence as to why some drills are negative. It is evidenced that the Nazis dug big pits. It is evidenced many are empty or have little in them. It is evidenced they were exhuming and cremating corpses and mixing that back into the pits. You fail to say why that happened, and how many died there.I asked you to quantify it. Please quantify just how inaccurate my estimates are. I provided the 'heat map' precisely to aid these sort of discussions. Which areas should be orange/red instead of gray/blue?Nessie wrote:You are very biased, your aim is to minimise what has been found and pretend it is not significant, as you ignore the eyewitness, documentary and circumstantial evidence of mass murders. The excavation reports corroborate the witness claims that the Nazis dug a series of large pits (which you do not dispute), buried and then exhumed corpses (hence the pits with no corpses in them) and then cremated corpses (hence areas with 69% of boreholes finding traces of human remains). Mazurek's excavations did not find huge quantities, because it was avoiding digging areas where there were signs of huge quantities....How biased am I, Nessie? Care to quantify it? Actually, we can even visualize it: how many of the graves in the heat map should be red or orange instead of gray and blue/green? Please refer to the excavation reports and show how they support your assessment.