THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTthanks to the embers produced by the combustion of the corpses. So, duringthe incineration of fat bodies, the fires were generally extinguished.[…]Another time, the SS chased a prisoner who was not working fastenough into a pit near the crematorium that was full of boiling humanfat. At that time [summer 1944], the corpses were incinerated in open-airpits, from which the fat flowed into a separate reservoir, dug in theground. This fat was poured over the corpses to accelerate their combustion.[…]”Tauber’s claims as to self-igniting, self-combustible corpses arecompletely absurd, and in contradiction to all the laws of physical andtechnical sciences. 444 He also confuses grilling with burning with relationto the allegedly boiling fat from the corpses. What is more, fatcannot boil at all. It simply begins to ignite at temperatures of approximately180-190°C.Tauber also proves himself a liar in the technical details related byhim. The combustion gases in a crematorium oven stream from thecombustion chamber 445 through the cremation chamber containing thecorpse (muffle), through the ash chamber into the flue, which conductsthe exhaust gases to the chimney. 446 If a fire had been ignited in the ashchamber to burn the bodies located above, this would have reversed theflow of gas: fresh air would have been sucked in through the chimney,while the exhaust gases would have flowed through the muffle into thecombustion chamber, from which they would have found their way outinto the oven room. Starting the fire in the ash chamber, as describedby Tauber, would have been disastrous.On top of this, Tauber also claims that the Sonderkommandosshoved extraordinarily many corpses into each oven (up to eight) whenthey heard Allied planes approaching. Tauber claims that by so doing,huge flames would have come out of the crematorium’s chimney,which they hoped would make the Allied bomber pilots aware of them.But as is common knowledge and has been pointed out many times, no444 On the energy requirements in general and in the crematoria of Auschwitz in particular, see C.Mattogno and F. Deana, “The Crematoria Ovens of Auschwitz and Birkenau”, in: E. Gauss(ed.), op. cit. (note 22), pp. 373-412 (online: www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndcrema.html).445 This is the so-called coke gas generator, where coke is burned with reduced oxygen supply,producing a combustible mixture of CO and H 2 (and some CO 2 and H 2 O), which burned in themuffle under addition of air.446 J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 93ff., chapter on the design and functioning of crematoriumovens built in the German concentration camps at that time.202