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1,900 kcal/kg. 421 At 60% humidity, red pine has a heating value of
about 2,000 kcal/kg – without taking into account the heat required to
evaporate this water during combustion (640 kcal/kg of water). At a water
content of 25% the heating value is 3,780 kcal/kg 422
It follows that 1 kg of dry wood (20% humidity) with a calorific value
of 3,800 kcal/kg is the equivalent of 1.9 kg of green wood.
Thus, for the cremation of a corpse at Sobibór, some (210×1.9=)
400 kg of fresh wood were needed. Thomas Blatt, however, asserts that
“the pyre, sometimes more than three yards high, was then doused with
kerosene [423] and ignited.” 424 Kurt Ticho/Thomas speaks also of coal as
fuel for the cremations. 425 To demonstrate a fortiori the inconsistency of
the Holocaust thesis, we will assume that the use of kerosene and/or
coal would have brought down the fresh wood requirements by one
quarter, i.e. to 300 kg per corpse, even though such a hypothesis would
be rather unlikely. 426
What is more, the Third Reich could not afford to waste gasoline or
other liquid fuels in such a manner. Schelvis tells us: 427
“The pressing shortage of petrol and fuel oil had turned peat into
a significant energy resource, as it was suitable not only for burning
in stoves, but also as a fuel for generators. Globocnik complained
about his dwindling petrol rations and of barely being able to keep
his gassing engines running.”
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See note 409: 3,400 Btu/lb = circa 1,900 Kcal/kg.
“Energie rinnovabili” (renewable energies),
www.pd.camcom.it/dev_cciaa/Web nsf/C1256C75005AA1D4C125735200246A54/$file
/biomasse.pdf; according to other sources, the heating value is 3,700-3,800 kcal/kg for a
humidity of 12-15%: www.cofea.it/public/all_00029.pdf
In a later German version (2004) quoted by Jens Hoffman, the term “Benzin” (gasoline)
appears here, presumably with the consent of Thomas Blatt. See J. Hoffmann, “Das kann
man nicht erzählen.” “Aktion 1005.” Wie die Nazis die Spuren ihrer Massenmorde in
Osteuropa beseitigten, KVV konkret, Hamburg 2008, p. 244. The fuel value of gasoline
is 10,500 Kcal/kg, almost identical to that of kerosene. It must be noted, however, that
the use of gasoline would have been very dangerous on account of its volatility: by the
time the corpses would have been thoroughly doused, ignition could have caused an explosion
of the gasoline/air mixture.
T. Blatt, op. cit. (note 17), p. 18.
M. Novitch, op. cit. (note 39), p. 78.
For example, in order to replace the heat produced by 100 kg of fresh wood,
([2,000×100]÷10,300=] 19,4 liters of kerosene (or 19 liters of gasoline), or else
([2,000×100]÷6,200=] 32.2 kg of coal per corpse would have been required, for a total of
(169,000×19.4=) 3,278,600 liters of kerosene (or 3,211,000 liters of gasoline) or
(169,000×32.2=) 5,441,800 kg of coal, or amounts intermediate between the two, if both
were used.
J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 70), p. 139.