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Carlo Mattogno, Auschwitz: The End of a Legend 133(third column). The forth column gives the data from the letter of June 28,1943, which Pressac considers “credible.”Since in twenty hours the ovens altogether could burn (based on the combustioncapacity of the single oven’s grill) 23,200 kg of coke, 37 the averagecoke consumption for each corpse according to Jean-Claude Pressac would be(23,200÷4,756 =) 4.88 kg, which is thermotechnically impossible.4.3. The Reason For Constructing Large CrematoriesThe decision to build three more crematories at Birkenau was made onAugust 19, 1942 (p. 49), after Himmler, during his inspection of Auschwitzon July 17 and 18, 1942, had ordered that the actual forecast for the KGL(prisoner of war camp) at Birkenau be increased from 125,000 to 200,000prisoners (p. 44). It also came during the terrible typhus epidemic in the summerof 1942, which caused decimation in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp: Inthe male sector alone, from August 1 to 19, 4,113 deaths were registered, 38 onthe average 216 per day. In the third trimester of 1942, the mortality was20.5% of the average camp population, 39 which did not exceed 25,000 inmates.The capacity of the crematories was therefore quite adequate for thecamp population established by Himmler, and provided for a possible futuretyphus epidemic.4.4. Number of Cremations in 1943: Estimate of the SS.The Aktenvermerk (file memo) of March 17, 1943, 40 (mentioned by Pressacon p. 119) shows the coke consumption estimate for the four crematories atBirkenau. The operational time of the crematories is estimated at 12 hours.The letter indicates the combustion capacity of the firing grates; therefore oneis able to calculate the number of corpses that could possibly be cremated,namely, about 362 emaciated adult corpses per day.From January 1 to March 10, 1943, ca. 14,800 inmates died in Auschwitz,an average of 207 per day. In February 1943, the mortality was approximately7,400 inmates, an average of 264 per day.In the same period, according to the Kalendarium of Danuta Czech, thenumber of the alleged gassing victims was appr. 72,700, an average of 1,05437 Crematorium I: 30 kg/h of coke × 6 fire places = 180 kg/h; crematoria II & III: 35×10×2 =700 kg/h; crematoria IV & V: 35×4×2 = 280 kg/h; total: 1,160 kg/h × 20 hours = 23,200 kgof coke.38 D. Czech, Kalendarium der Ereignisse im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau 1939-1945, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbeck 1989, p. 281.39 H. Langbein, Menschen in Auschwitz, Europaverlag, Vienna 1987, p. 74.40 APMO, BW 30/7/34, p. 54.