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Carlo Mattogno, Auschwitz: The End of a Legend 135homicidally gassed plus registered prisoners) is claimed to have been about142,000. Thus, the cremation capacity of the crematories rendered the cremationof presumed homicidally gassed prisoners impossible; therefore, therewas no mass homicidal gassing.In his gigantic work Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the GasChambers, published in 1989, Jean-Claude Pressac states that from April toOctober 1943 the crematories at Birkenau cremated 165,000 to 215,000corpses with 497 tons of coke, 45 which means that for him it was possible tocremate a corpse with an average of 2.6 kg of coke!According to Rudolf Höss, Crematories II and III could cremate 2,000corpses per day, and the Crematories IV and V 1,500 per day. 46 Hence the averageconsumption of coke per corpse was respectively 3.5 kg and 1.8 kg!4.7. The Duration of the Fireproof Brick of the Cremation OvensIn his 1989 book, Jean-Claude Pressac furnishes the following numbers ofcorpses cremated at Auschwitz-Birkenau:Cremation Site No. of Cremations Page A.T.OCrematory I 10,000 132Crematory II 400,000 183Crematory III 350,000 183Crematory IV 6,000 236Crematory V 15,000 236Cremation Pit 1942 107,000 162, 213Cremation Pit 1944 50,000 236, 390Total: 938,000These numbers refer exclusively to those presumed homicidally gassed anddo not include the corpses of the registered prisoners who died of naturalcauses.In his 1993 book, Jean-Claude Pressac reduced the number of presumedhomicidally gassed to 630,000 and in the 1994 German edition to 470,000 to550,000. He claims a total general death toll of 775,000, rounded up to approximately800,000 (p. 148), and reduced this in the German edition to631,000 to 711,000 inmates (p. 202).bodies cremated; the crematoria IV & V had altogether 132 days of activity, × 192 cremationsper day = 25,244 cremated bodies; total: 105,264 cremated bodies.45 J.-C. Pressac, Auschwitz:…, op. cit. (note 7), p. 227.46 Martin Broszat (ed.), Kommandant in Auschwitz. Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen desRudolf Höss, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1981, p. 171 (Engl.: Steven Paskuly(ed.), Death Dealer. The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, Da Capo Press, NewYork 1996).