Discussion on Auschwitz and Historical Claims

If you're cremating 60,000 people a day, you're going to need a huge quantity of coke.

We know, and any crematorium expert or manager here in downtown Cincinnati will confirm this,

that if you've got a coke-operated crematorium, it takes 30 or 40 or 50 kilograms of coke for each cadaver.

So you're looking at a huge quantity of coke being required every day,

for these figures you read about in newspapers now, about 2,000 tons of coke a day.

But we have aerial photographs of Auschwitz that were taken during the war,

taken by American and British and South African planes.

Photographs that are so detailed, I had them, had them with me.

Photographs that are so detailed you can see the people walking around in the streets of the camp.

There's no signs of huge quantities of coke, no mountains of coke, there are no huge mass graves either, no pits.

No lines of people waiting outside the gas chambers.

All these legends begin to dissolve when you look at these photographs under a magnifying glass.

We can be very precise about the coke, in fact, because in the Russian archives,

which have now become available, where I've worked too in Moscow, the secret archives of the Soviet Union,

they found the entire operating documents of the Auschwitz concentration camp,

including the quantities of coke that were supplied for the crematoria throughout the entire period.

It's a figure worth making a mental note of. 2,188 tons of coke were supplied to Auschwitz from start to finish,

which is enough to cremate 70 or 80,000 bodies again.

So you're coming roughly to a figure of about 100,000 bodies, which is again confirmed, oddly enough,

by the Russians who released to the Western powers four years ago the death books of Auschwitz,

which contain all the death certificates of everyone who died in Auschwitz.

Forty-six bound volumes of death certificates with a total of 66,000 names.

So again, you've got an order of magnitude of how many people died.

And if most of those people died of natural causes and a fraction died of being executed or murder or brutality,

this is still a crime, I'm not denying that.

But we then come to a point, which I mentioned earlier, the innocenticide factor comes in.

Because if of those 100,000 people who died in Auschwitz, even a quarter were murdered, 25,000.

Remember the picture I showed you here.

On the one hand, 25,000 people being murdered in Auschwitz over the entire war years.

And on the other hand, 40,000 people being burned alive in 20 minutes.

The whole world talks about the one crime. Endless television movies are made about it.

You're all made to feel guilty about it.

But the other crime is swept under the carpet as though it never happened.

And when a British historian comes along and repeatedly talks about it,

he's the one who finds himself being put in handcuffs and deported and hounded around the world

and finding doors slammed in his face from Pretoria to Vancouver.