The brilliant Revisionist Friedrich Paul Berg (1943-2019), who was a degreed mining engineer educated at Columbia University (1965) dropped a slam-dunk on the Hoax when he noted the problem of the diesel gas-chambers (ca. 1984) that there just isn't enough carbon monoxide in diesel engine exhaust to kill people in the way claimed by Jews and Holo-Historians.
Per U.S. Bureau of Mines data from the 1940s, an unloaded diesel engine in fact has 17 percent oxygen in its exhaust. (Normal air has 21 percent.) And in the 1940s, diesel engines were operated inside mine shafts which the U.S. goverment studied extensively.
Below, from 1941 Holtz & Elliott ─ Bureau of Mines data, diesel engine exhaust components at various loads:
British pathologists (1957) also tested diesel engine exhaust on live mammals, and they were very hard to kill in this manner. The acrid diesel engine exhaust was described as painful to the eyes and visibly thick.
Other than by Rube Goldberg, what homicidal gas-chamber takes hours and hours to kill?
Holocaust Hoaxsters have objected that diesel engine exhaust is toxic ─ more so than even gasoline engine exhaust with modern catalytic converters.
They also object that the heat and acrid soot of diesel exhaust gases will kill people eventually, and that modifying the engine to overload will ramp up the carbon monoxide content and black smoke in the exhaust.
So here is Diesel slam-dunk Revisionist argument number 2.
Exposure to carbon monoxide is a common health hazard and takes many lives every year. Prior to the removal of CO from European and American municipal gas in the 1960s, this was a very serious hazard, and head-in-the-oven suicides like that of the kooky author Sylvia Plath (1963) were then common.
Today, with CO gas detectors routinely in homes and heating and cooking gas from the mains always now being CO free, it takes faulty equipment and negligent maintenance to lead to CO exposure accidents ─ which are therefore far less common than in the past.
And with computerized electronic-ignition systerms and catalytic converters mandated on the exhaust systems of gasoline-fueled cars, the main risk of CO to the public is now from small gasoline motors used for the emergency generation of electricity and for pumping water.
This remains a negligible risk with diesel-driven generators or pumps like the small one-lung version below used in a German bombshelter.
Every year at hurricane season in the United States, the emergency room and morgue visits due to carbon monoxide exposures spike up alarmingly. It is clear in the epidemiological data that CO exposure is bad news.
This begs the question:
Why are there no such accidents with diesel engine exhaust?
Almost none.
Well, over a couple of deades ago, I did a comprehensive survey of morgue statistics looking for cases of deaths attributed to diesel engine exhaust exposure.
In fact, this almost never happens in the real world!
There were some rumors related to this "unicorn" category of event because no expert wants to be documented saying that diesel engine exhaust is safe. (It is not.) But it is not deadly.
The fact is that Diesel exhaust has miniscule carbon monoxide output in normal operation.
The best documented report that I found came from a Dr. Sivanathalogan of the University of Sheffield in the UK, who published a short article in an academic journal on forensic medicine:
I also corresponded briefly with Dr. Sivaloganathan. The fact is that death from diesel exhaust exposure almost never happens!
So, my fault, your fault, nobody's fault ─ this therefore never happening in the REAL world means that the idea of using diesel engines for a homidical gas-chamber is ludicrous.
In the very rare singular case where diesel engine exhaust killed somebody, the victim was an 84 year old with emphysema and heart disease who sucessfully completed a suicide with a diesel car in a garage.
And in over twenty-five years, nobody has been able to come up with anything better than this one fluke case.
There was a 2008 example of a truck driver with ischemic heat disease who died overnight in a cold cab with a heater running and who had high COHb levels in his blood for some reason ─ but for the most part they actually refer to Holocaust lore that diesel engines are documented to actually work for exterminations!
Fuel oil (diesel) heaters will easily generate carbon monoxide, yes. Diesel engines don't, however, because of the comprssion-igbition principle of their operation. Diesel engines always (unless heavily-loaded) generate very little carbon monoxide in their exhaust.
The smarter Hoaxsters were wise to drop the diesel gassing canard and move on to greener pastures with gasoline engine gas-chambers, which are at least theoretically possible. I have doubts about the "industrial killing efficiency" of petrol engines used to generate exhaustm, of course, but at least this happens in the real world deliberately and accidentally (contrary to diesels).
Kind of a problem for the Hoaxster purists ─ none of whom caught this gaffe ─ i.e., that diesel engines are what was actually used for electrical power in remote camps, and that Soviet tank engines (salvaged or not) during the war were nearly always diesels (unlike German tank engines).
Producer gas generators that used wood or coal to generate combustible carbon monoxide for motorfuel ─ and sometimes as an agricultural rodent fumigant ─ were quite common during the war.
In facts, producer gas generators for carbon monoxide were used everywhere besides the United States where gasoline was rationed but never in short supply. Even the Swedish vacuum cleaner company Electrolux made a producer CO gas-generator.
And the use of carbon monoxide generator-gas for motorfuel during the war and afterwards, has a robust body of academic literature in the area of industrial medicine associated with it.
Below, a B&W photograph of the "man with a red face," a Holzgas truck driver from a Swedish journal on industrial hygiene.
Yet curiously, no Hoaxsters ever thought of generator gas for their Nazi homicidal gassing factory claims.
Below, a wood-gas-fueled bus operating in Poland (1940).
