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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Muehlenkamp’s Ettling imposture
In a long series of writings (e.g. manifesto, p. 468), Roberto Muehlenkamp (the only person currently attempting the technical feasibility of holocaust burial and cremation claims) has made rhetorical use of a 1969 paper by Bruce Ettling in order to … Continue reading
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Nicholas Terry and Black Propaganda
In his contribution to the holocaust controversies manifesto, Nicholas Terry makes (p. 43) a big fuss over the somewhat loose use of the term “black propaganda” which has been made in some revisionist works. The objection seems rather pointless, given … Continue reading
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Tagged Exeter, holocaust controversies, Nicholas Terry, Nick Terry, propaganda
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Taking out the garbage
The hapless Roberto Muehlenkamp has continued to attempt responses to a number of my posts. Muehlenkamp’s disorganized meanderings, which rely heavily on attempted line-by-line “rebuttals” that fail to engage with the full argument being made, are characteristically thoughtless, being written … Continue reading
Muehlenkamp’s body-mass delusion: a case of BMI abuse
Foundational to Roberto Muehlenkamp’s misrepresentations of the realities concerning burial space at the Reinhardt camps is his claim that Polish Jews weighed an average of 34 kilograms (75 pounds). This claim is based on the assumptions that (1) one third … Continue reading
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Tagged holocaust, holocaust controversies, jews, mass burial, Roberto Muehlenkamp
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US government official: ‘Ausrottung’ does not imply killing
An interesting find from the records of the War Refugee Board: In mid-1944, as the Vrba-Wetzler report on Auschwitz was making the rounds, the US government official Landreth M. Harrison wrote the following letter: Thus Landreth M. Harrison confirmed that … Continue reading
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Muehlenkamp lies about Provan
In his ludicrous mis-analysis of burial space, Roberto Muelenkamp has made heavy use of an experiment of Charles Provan. Obviously, this use is quite absurd – if you want to study burial space in mass graves, is makes sense to … Continue reading
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Muehlenkamp doubles down on stupid
After I devoted one post to refuting Roberto Muehlenkamp’s insinuation that the Cimetière des Innocents demonstrates the possibility of remarkably dense burials, and another to pointing out that that Muehlenkamp’s analysis implies that pigs will self-cremate, I was well aware … Continue reading
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On fat collection from burning cremation pyres at Auschwitz
There’s a popular tall tale that in the Auschwitz cremation pyres, fat ran down through the fire and into a storage pit, where it was collected and dumped back on the fire to help the combustion. It is rather obvious … Continue reading
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Pigs are self-cremating, says Roberto Muehlenkamp
In his contribution to the holocaust controversies manifesto, Roberto Muehlenkamp claims that to cremate carcasses, one needs a total energy content of 3,677.51 kCal per kg of carcass to be cremated. That is, Muehlenkamp first calculates the energy content of … Continue reading
More Blunders from Jonathan Harrison
Not long after my (tongue in cheek) comments on an argument which Jonathan Harrison had put forward with respect to the Tesch trial, he made a blog post on a tangentially related subject. As his post had nothing to do … Continue reading
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Tagged holocaust controversies, Jonathan Harrison, Neuengamme, Tesch, zyklon-B
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