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Here is a recent article from Ha'aretz, the oldest newspaper in Israel. This
shows the insanity continues. Hysteria, huge numbers, wild claims when a
simple calculation provides the answer.
Haaretz
Last Update: 24/03/2005 02:53
Holocaust victims' ashes to be buried at Sachsenhausen
By The Associated Press
POTSDAM - German officials plan next week to bury the ashes of thousands
killed in the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp after they were
discovered during building work at the site, the director of the camp
memorial said Wednesday.
[We will find thousands is correct.]
Archaeologists last year found a layer of ashes up to 1.5 meters thick
underneath a concrete building constructed near the camp's former
crematorium by East Germany's communist authorities as a memorial, director
Guenter Morsch said.
[What does thickness matter without knowing length and
width?]
Morsch said it was impossible to establish the number or identity of the
victims whose cremated remains were found, but estimated that "there are
tens of thousands."
[But where does tens of thousands come from?]
Some 200,000 people, including political prisoners, captives from Poland,
Soviet POWs as well as Jews, were interned at Sachsenhausen, north of
Berlin, between 1936 and 1945, and tens of thousands died. "At the end of
the Nazi regime, the SS tried to cover up the crimes committed at
Sachsenhausen, and to do that they plowed the ashes of the dead into the
ground over a wide area," burying them under a layer of earth, Morsch told
reporters.
On March 29, memorial officials plan to bury the ashes in 150 urns at the
Sachsenhausen site, each with a capacity of 30 kilograms, Morsch said.
[One assumes respect for the dead means this will be
all the remains.]
The planned burial comes ahead of commemorations next month marking the
camp's April 22, 1945 liberation by the Red Army.
Advancing Soviet forces found about 3,000 survivors, most of them old and
sick. Thousands of other prisoners died during the death marches that
preceded Sachsenhausen's liberation as the SS evacuated most of the camp.
Memorial officials expect many survivors to come to the April 17 anniversary
commemoration, which German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer also will
attend.
Over recent years, a new visitor center has been opened at the camp, and the
site entrance has been moved so that visitors pass through the same gate
used by the prisoners. The revamped memorial is to be officially inaugurated
at the anniversary ceremony.
So lets find out just how many "people" are in these ashes without asking if
they are even human ashes.
The data on weight and volume is found
here.
weight = 2kg per person
15 per urn, 150 urns, 2250 remains
volume 205 cubic inches
205 x 2250 = 270 cubic feet = 9 cubic yards = 7.4 cubic meters
assuming only 1 meter deep = 2.7 meters square or 10 feet square
OR roughly the size of three normal graves. Using the stated 1.5
meters we have the area of about one and a half normal graves but only to a
depth of about five feet.
So we can calculate these are the remains of less than 2500 people of which
nothing else is known.
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