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No, bones don't burn. Neither do teeth. That all has to be crushed in a grinder, after the cremation, to make them into unrecognizably small fragments.
Teeth are basically very hard rocks, and bones aren't much softer. Take a chicken bone and cook it in your oven as high as the heat goes for as long as you can stand... It won't go anywhere.
Bones break down due to calcification at approximately 760 to 982°C. The shards and fragments left behind that haven't completely broken down into ash are processed in a cremulator (a specialised food processor/small grinder) turning the rest into a white/grey ash.
Anything will burn with enough temperature and a cremator furnace is somewhat hotter than an industrial oven and more so than the domestic whitegoods version you bake your chicken in.
Even with domestic ovens, there are pyrolytic ovens that clean foodstuff in your oven that turn left overs into ash.
Pyrolytic can reach temps for cleaning at around 500°C whilst normal ovens only 220°C, that's why nothing happens to the chicken bones.
A quick google search tells me it takes 1-3 hours to fully cremate a body. But that doesn’t include bone and teeth crushing time.
It’s claimed that 6,000 a day were gassed at Auschwitz, which would be 250 people per hour in 24 hours. That’s including the time to get them in the gas chamber, gassed, clearing the gas and bodies removed. Bringing the number to 4.17 people per minute, and that still doesn’t include cremation and crushing time.
Pictures I’ve seen online shows a gas chamber that doesn’t look like it could even fit 250 people at a time.
And the oven pictures online don’t show more than a few ovens in the same room. Maybe there were other oven buildings.
And every war and Holocaust movie I’ve seen shows different methods of extermination. You’d think the Germans being German would have this down to an exact uniform process, and that movies would also represent what happened accurately.
Can I ask these questions during a concentration camp tour and not get arrested?
The Germans made enough armor-piercing rifle ammunition (not ammunition, not tank ammunition, the very rare and unnecessarily expensive tungsten core armor-piercing rifle ammunition) to shoot every jew 10 times - in the first 18 months of the war.
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[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
No, bones don't burn. Neither do teeth. That all has to be crushed in a grinder, after the cremation, to make them into unrecognizably small fragments.
Teeth are basically very hard rocks, and bones aren't much softer. Take a chicken bone and cook it in your oven as high as the heat goes for as long as you can stand... It won't go anywhere.
[–] UncleDoug 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Bones break down due to calcification at approximately 760 to 982°C. The shards and fragments left behind that haven't completely broken down into ash are processed in a cremulator (a specialised food processor/small grinder) turning the rest into a white/grey ash.
Anything will burn with enough temperature and a cremator furnace is somewhat hotter than an industrial oven and more so than the domestic whitegoods version you bake your chicken in.
Even with domestic ovens, there are pyrolytic ovens that clean foodstuff in your oven that turn left overs into ash.
Pyrolytic can reach temps for cleaning at around 500°C whilst normal ovens only 220°C, that's why nothing happens to the chicken bones.
[–] clamhurt_legbeard ago
Yes, I actually linked to one in my response.
[–] RedBullTrooper [S] ago
A quick google search tells me it takes 1-3 hours to fully cremate a body. But that doesn’t include bone and teeth crushing time.
It’s claimed that 6,000 a day were gassed at Auschwitz, which would be 250 people per hour in 24 hours. That’s including the time to get them in the gas chamber, gassed, clearing the gas and bodies removed. Bringing the number to 4.17 people per minute, and that still doesn’t include cremation and crushing time.
Pictures I’ve seen online shows a gas chamber that doesn’t look like it could even fit 250 people at a time.
And the oven pictures online don’t show more than a few ovens in the same room. Maybe there were other oven buildings.
And every war and Holocaust movie I’ve seen shows different methods of extermination. You’d think the Germans being German would have this down to an exact uniform process, and that movies would also represent what happened accurately.
Can I ask these questions during a concentration camp tour and not get arrested?
[–] clamhurt_legbeard ago
The Germans made enough armor-piercing rifle ammunition (not ammunition, not tank ammunition, the very rare and unnecessarily expensive tungsten core armor-piercing rifle ammunition) to shoot every jew 10 times - in the first 18 months of the war.
They could have just shot them.