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Why were the Nazis not using microwaves for mass killings?
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:27 pm
by PangaeaProxima
I already posed the following question as a comment under the "Microwave Delousing" entry in the Holocaust Encyclopedia (
https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/techn ... -delousing):
The fact that this does not play any role at all in the Holocaust narrative actually can be considered an argument against it. Why wouldn’t the Nazis have used this superior killing method also against humans? If microwave ovens already had been known at the time, there can be no doubt that there would have been countless claims about prisoners being microwaved to death. But the technology was too new and unfamiliar to be considered by propagandists and “eye witnesses”.
So, how do you explain it? Why was this much faster, simpler and cheaper method only used on lice, but not humans?
Re: Why were the Nazis not using microwaves for mass killings?
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:53 pm
by TlsMS93
The letter of selection of prisoners for the gas chamber will always be used. The benefit of this method of delousing only benefited the registered prisoners, the rest went to the shower.
Re: Why were the Nazis not using microwaves for mass killings?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 3:54 am
by Archie
Microwaving people would be a really brutal execution method. You would be cooking people alive. I also wonder if it might be technically difficult to make a large enough microwave. LK1 in Krema II was 30x7 meters.
They started using the microwave delousing in 1944. At that point the Holocaust was mostly over.
What I find interesting about the microwave delousing is that as they moved to that, the Zyklon deliveries to Auschwitz seemed to have stopped. The last documented delivery is May 1944. Plus there were major supply problems with Zyklon due to the Allied bombings. This is a problem for the orthodox narrative because that's supposed to be the most intensive period of killing (the Hungarian action).
Re: Why were the Nazis not using microwaves for mass killings?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 7:35 am
by Nessie
The fact that this does not play any role at all in the Holocaust narrative actually can be considered an argument against it...
Another illogical argument.

Re: Why were the Nazis not using microwaves for mass killings?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:49 am
by Nazgul
The Germans invented the captive bolt pistol which was invented in 1903 by Hugo Heiss, the former director of a slaughterhouse in Straubing, Germany. It is currently used worldwide for the mass slaughter of cattle, sheep, deer. A captive bolt pistol is intended to deliver a single, powerful strike to the forehead of an animal in order to quickly induce unconsciousness. Depending on the variation and usage, the bolt may or may not penetrate the skull and cause direct damage to the brain. They would be lethal to humans. This is the method of mass killing of livestock today in Germany and worldwide. Millions of animals today are killed this way. The Germans also guillotined more people than the French during their revolution; more messy than bolt guns. Hanging was a common method for partisans as well as shooting. They also built carcass shredders which would have confettied a corpse in milliseconds, whole trainloads in seconds even if thrown in alive. These would have been the methods. Gas was reserved to kill the typhus vectors of lice, fleas, mites and ticks.
It was claimed that Jews were electrocuted at Belzec and burned on white hot floors. They also climbed trees that were cut down. See no reason why they would not be microwaved if extermination was the aim. Of course it was not, people were necessary for the war effort.

Re: Why were the Nazis not using microwaves for mass killings?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 3:20 pm
by Stubble
Are you sure Holocaust Controversies doesn't claim small scale short wave (microwave) executions? They claim soap and lampshades.
Re: Why were the Nazis not using microwaves for mass killings?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:02 pm
by HansHill
My personal opinion as to why this doesn't feature much (or at all) in propaganda, is that microwave technology was little understood by the layman around this time. The stories that were whipped up in hysteria, tended to be as explosive, highly emotive, and diabolical as possible. "Micro waves", being very cerebral, probably didn't resonate as being that emotive or diabolical to make good sensationalism back then.
Additionally, the types of people making these claims, the likes of Jankiel Wiernik and what-have-you, probably had absolutely no idea what microwave technology was. LOL.