THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTFig. 58: White circles: possible sites of old mass graves of typhus victims inAuschwitz.but as Gärtner, Rademacher, and Carlo Mattogno have shown, the extremelyhigh ground water table in the areas around the alleged locationof those cremation pits was so high that it would have been impossibleto dig such deep pits, arrange hundreds of corpses and fuel inthem, and maintain a fire for many hours without these pits quicklyfilling with water. These findings show clearly that the attested burningof corpses in pits many meters deep was impossible under such conditions,since these pits would have filled up with ground water ratherquickly.It is known that in Birkenau the corpses which had accumulatedduring the typhus epidemic of the summer of 1942 were first buried inmass graves. Due to the danger of the contamination of the ground water,however, they had to be exhumed in the spring of 1943. Since thenew cremation facilities still were not capable of functioning at thattime, it is possible that at least a portion of the corpses were burned onfuneral pyres. For this purpose, as a rule, one removes the turf and theupper layer of topsoil in order to preserve them from damage and toabsorb the ashes of the wood and the corpses. But holes many meters144