Monday, September 18, 2006

Open Thread

I know, we're hardly dailykos in size, but there seems to be some demand for a place that readers can get on their own soapboax. No spam please, and remember, think before you type...

65 comments:

Sergey Romanov said...

good idea. voxceltica can now transfer his/her postings here.

Nick Terry said...

So, was there a query about boiling fat?

Nick Terry said...

Can fat run off during open-air cremations?

Firstly, it must be identified that to tbe best of my knowledge, and I may be wrong, only two witnesses mention fat running off and being collected to be poured back onto an open-air cremation at Auschwitz. Thus, the question is not exactly central to the entire corpus of witness testimony describing open-air cremations either at Auschwitz or other camps, or with Sonderkommando 1005.

Second, there is in principle nothing scientifically implausible about fat running out of bodies in a mass cremation pit or on a pyre - at a certain point of the cremation only.

That is to say, anyone who has ever cooked meat on a stove, in an oven or on a barbecue knows that it is possible to heat meat to beyond 200 degrees Celsius without it automatically catching fire, and that fat WILL run out of the meat in large quantities.

Now multiply that Sunday roast of 4lb weight by 10,000 times.

Open-air cremation relied on wood fires ignited by petrol. Neither fuel produces an instant incineration temperature but must be allowd to build up to a cremation heat. In the *early* stages of the fire building, fat could run off without being immediately ignited by the fire.

Within a short space of time, this would no longer be so, the fat that remained in the bodies would combust due to the sheer heat of the fire. Pouring run-off fat back onto the fire at an early stage would stoke it and ensure that it built to the required level - more than 600 degrees Celsius - for cremation to ensue, as opposed to a gigantic long-pig barbecue.

The New Athenian said...

So what you are saying is that fat was collected from the partially incinerated corpses, most of which would have been emaciated. This would involve the careful monitoring of the fire’s temperature. The fat was collected, god knows how, and returned to the fire. The fat yields were likely to be negligible; the collectable percentage of these yields even more minimal and the effort involved in this operation would be considerable. By removing fat from corpses you are simply removing a combustible agent from the process and returning it at a later point; you are not increasing fuel value by a single percent. The fat would burn if you just left it on the fire. All a bit pointless don’t you think? Do you guys really expect people to believe this?

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>So what you are saying is that fat was collected from the partially incinerated corpses, most of >which would have been emaciated.

Wrong, the Jews from Hungary in the spring and summer of 1944 were not emaciated.

>This would involve the careful monitoring of the fire’s temperature. The fat was collected, god >knows how, and returned to the fire. The fat yields were likely to be negligible; the collectable >percentage of these yields even more minimal and the effort involved in this operation would >be considerable.

Say you. What are your quantity estimates based on?

>By removing fat from corpses you are simply removing a combustible agent from the process >and returning it at a later point; you are not increasing fuel value by a single percent. The fat >would burn if you just left it on the fire.

Yeah, but pouring the collected fat onto the flames might speed up the building of incineration heat required, which would otherwise take somewhat longer, as Nick explained.

>All a bit pointless don’t you think?

Not if you’re interested in bringing the fire to the highest temperature within the shortest possible time. You can achieve that by pouring either external liquid fuel or body fat onto the fire. The latter option is more economical.

>Do you guys really expect people to believe this?

What you wish to believe or not is your problem alone. But if you doubt a procedure described by several witnesses independently of each other without being able to demonstrate that it was not physically possible and the witnesses must therefore have been wrong about some detail, your doubt is not a reasonable one.

Anonymous said...

>"Do you guys really expect anyone to believe this?"

Do you people ever do any scientific research to back up your denials?

Here'sa hint: Mattogno's backyard barbeque don't cut it....

Xcalibur

The New Athenian said...

“Wrong, the Jews from Hungary in the spring and summer of 1944 were not emaciated”

So you know the fat to muscle ratios of the people involved then do you? People were leaner in this period and were, no doubt even more lean because of their circumstances. The potential fat yield is further derogated by the distribution of human fat as compared to the distribution of fat on cows and pigs. Even if fat could be drained from human bodies the yields would be negligible.


“Yeah, but pouring the collected fat onto the flames might speed up the building of incineration heat required, which would otherwise take somewhat longer, as Nick explained”

It might speed it up if you weren’t adding it to a fire that’s temperature potential had been lowered by the fuel removal. Why not just remove some of the wood and return it to the fire at a later point?

“without being able to demonstrate that it was not physically possible and the witnesses must therefore have been wrong about some detail….. your doubt is not a reasonable one”

I couldn’t explain the metallurgy behind making a steel bar but I know that if I got hit by one it would hurt. I also know that the claim that removing a combustible material from a fire and returning it an hour or so later doesn’t increase the incineration potential of your combined fuel resource.

“Do you people ever do any scientific research to back up your denials?”

Do you have any scientific research to back up yours?

The New Athenian said...

Why did they need to carry out this bizarre operation anyway? According to key holocaust witness Konrad Morgen (cited by Sergey, I believe) the process unfolded thus;

"By means of a special process which Wirth had invented, they were burned in the open air without the use of fuel" K Morgen

Which of your "eyewitnesses" should we believe, the ones who claim that mass cremations were achieved by a dubious process involving vats of human fat or the eyewitness who says that the Nazis could cremate without fuel?

Sergey Romanov said...

Voxceltica apparently didn't learn anything about the fallacy of "refuting hearsay" from this blog, even though it has been pointed out many times.

Morgen was not an eyewitness to this process. He has been told about it by Wirth. He has been an eyewitness to the act of telling, not to the events told about.

Either Wirth bragged about "no fuel", or he said something about "almost no fuel", which transformed years later into "no fuel" in Morgen's testimony. Or Morgen simply misunderstood or misremembered what was said. This doesn't impeach his testimony in the least, of course.

What is so hard to understand here? But perhaps those comprehension problems, pointed out by me earlier, are at work? After all, you "racialists" are not known to be very bright.

The New Athenian said...

“Voxceltica apparently didn't learn anything about the fallacy of "refuting hearsay"

When you guys cite hearsay it’s prima facie evidence. When it’s disputed it’s transformed back into hearsay. Stop citing it and I’ll stop refuting it.

“Either Wirth bragged about "no fuel", or he said something about "almost no fuel", which transformed years later into "no fuel"

Talk about creative interpretation! Are you fucking nuts or something? Why don’t you concentrate on explaining how bodies were incinerated with no fuel? You can even speculate about your invented scenario in which th bodies were incinerated with “almost” no fuel. I’d be really interested to find out about “almost no fuel” incinerations. Nazi science might be able to help us solve the energy crisis.

“This doesn't impeach his testimony in the least, of course”

Of course it does. How can this concluding absurdity not impeach his testimony?

“Or Morgen simply misunderstood or misremembered what was said”

And this, of course, would call into question the general validity of his evidence. How can we tell what parts of his evidence were based on “misunderstandings” and “misremembering” and which parts weren’t?

“After all, you "racialists" are known not to be very bright”

I think a demonstration of the above might be more convincing than an assertion.

Sergey Romanov said...

No, hearsay can be valuable (like Morgen's hearsay), but allowance for additional distortion should be made.

Apparently you're too stupid to grasp such basics.

"“After all, you "racialists" are known not to be very bright”

I think a demonstration of the above might be more convincing than an assertion."

You're demonstrating it with each posting here. Please, continue.

:-)

The New Athenian said...

“No, hearsay can be valuable (like Morgen's hearsay)”

So when the premise fits the conclusion it becomes “valuable” evidence

“but allowance for additional distortion should be made”

On the other hand, when the premise doesn’t fit the conclusion it’s attributable to “distortion” Your definition of distortion being; failure to correspond to your preconceptions. There’s a starring spot waiting for you in comedy clubs all over Britain Sergey.

“Apparently you're too stupid to grasp such basics”

Apparently.

“You're demonstrating it with each posting here. Please, continue”

Okay!

Sergey Romanov said...

"So when the premise fits the conclusion it becomes “valuable” evidence"

No, when a testimony is given by a credible witness like Morgen, it is valuable evidence.

"On the other hand, when the premise doesn’t fit the conclusion it’s attributable to “distortion”"

Which is a common sense. Which you lack, of course, being brainless scum and all that.

The New Athenian said...

“Which is a common sense. Which you lack, of course, being brainless scum and all that”

You start with the conclusion and fit the premises around it? That sounds like uncommon sense to me, still who am I to question your radical revision of basic scientific methodology?

Your “brainless scum” point is rather convincing. I’m not quite sure how to respond to such perceptive critique.

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>“Wrong, the Jews from Hungary in the spring and summer of 1944 were not emaciated”

>So you know the fat to muscle ratios of the people involved then do you?

Do I have to? Yours is the claim that they were emaciated and thus would have no fat.

>People were leaner in this period and were, no doubt even more lean because of their >circumstances. The potential fat yield is further derogated by the distribution of human fat as >compared to the distribution of fat on cows and pigs. Even if fat could be drained from human >bodies the yields would be negligible.

Your claim, your burden of proof.

“Yeah, but pouring the collected fat onto the flames might speed up the building of incineration heat required, which would otherwise take somewhat longer, as Nick explained”

>It might speed it up if you weren’t adding it to a fire that’s temperature potential had been >lowered by the fuel removal. Why not just remove some of the wood and return it to the fire at >a later point?

Why would it not be better to remove some of the fat and return it to the fire at a later point?

>“without being able to demonstrate that it was not physically possible and the witnesses must >therefore have been wrong about some detail….. your doubt is not a reasonable one”

>I couldn’t explain the metallurgy behind making a steel bar but I know that if I got hit by one it >would hurt. I also know that the claim that removing a combustible material from a fire and >returning it an hour or so later doesn’t increase the incineration potential of your combined fuel >resource.

Didn’t we just agree that this is not about the overall incineration potential, but about the best place and time to apply a part of that potential?

>“Do you people ever do any scientific research to back up your denials?”

>Do you have any scientific research to back up yours?

No, we don’t deny.

The New Athenian said...

“Do you have any scientific research to back up yours?” VOX

”No, we don’t deny” Roberto

So you are admitting that you don’t have any scientific evidence but you think that that’s ok because you are not “denying” anything?

You are denying my assertion that fat drainage from corpses on an open fire is virtually impossible and entirely impractical. A denial you now admit you cannot back up with scientific evidence. Thanks!

“Why would it not be better to remove some of the fat and return it to the fire at a later point?”

Because the fat would be colder when it was reapplied to the fire than it was when it was taken from the fire. You could, of course, keep the oil simmering in a cauldron, but that would require additional fuel for the cauldron fires. Why can’t you just admit that this particular tale is apocryphal?

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>“Do you have any scientific research to back up yours?” VOX

>”No, we don’t deny” Roberto

>So you are admitting that you don’t have any scientific evidence but you think that that’s ok >because you are not “denying” anything?

No, I’m saying that, as I’m not denying historical facts like you are, the question for “scientific research”, in the context in which it was asked by Xcalibur, doesn’t arise in my case.

>You are denying my assertion that fat drainage from corpses on an open fire is virtually >impossible and entirely impractical. A denial you now admit you cannot back up with scientific >evidence. Thanks!

Wishful thinking is also thinking and often the only thinking that “Revisionists” are capable of.
Silly word games aside, the score is this: you have claimed that “fat drainage from corpses on an open fire is virtually impossible and entirely impractical”, but you have not proven it. And as the claims is yours, so is the burden of proof.

>“Why would it not be better to remove some of the fat and return it to the fire at a later >point?”

>Because the fat would be colder when it was reapplied to the fire than it was when it was >taken from the fire.

How much colder would that be if it was reapplied immediately, and how would that affect its combustion properties, if at all? You should also answer the question in its context: what would be “worse” about fat and “better” about wood as an agent to speed up the building of incineration heat required, thus making wood seem the more appropriate choice?

>You could, of course, keep the oil simmering in a cauldron, but that would require additional >fuel for the cauldron fires.

Not if you reapplied it immediately after collection, assuming that the temperature of the fat even mattered.

>Why can’t you just admit that this particular tale is apocryphal?

I don’t see why I should. Getting desperate?

Andrew E. Mathis said...

Nick, is one of the two guys who mentioned boiling fat Vladek Spiegelman? Because in his testimony to his son in Maus, Spiegelman talked about this.

a.m.

The New Athenian said...

“No, I’m saying that, as I’m not denying historical facts like you are”

Oh! I see, “historical” facts don’t require scientific verification?

“Wishful thinking is also thinking and often the only thinking that “Revisionists” are capable of”

So when I asked you if you have any scientific research to back up your assertions and you responded by admitting that you didn’t, that was somehow “wishful thinking” on my part? It looks quite black and white in your original post Roberto, but I’m sure I’m just imagining it.

“How much colder would that be if it was reapplied immediately, and how would that affect its combustion properties, if at all?”

Firstly you would have the, not inconsiderable, problem of collecting it in sufficient quantities.

Your scenario: Bodies placed on wood pyre, gasoline applied, fire ignited, bodies reach a certain temperature at which point all human fat pours steadily from the body and is collected. Collection can be done within a timescale that precludes any significant cooling of the fat, fat reapplied, massive combustion, end.

My scenario: Bodies placed on wooden pyre, gasoline applied, fire ignited, bodies reach a certain temperature at which point bodies begin to combust, skin ruptures, fat hisses and spits from some of the more corpulent corpses, some of the fat ignites, some runs out, other bodies burn more slowly, short of placing the corpses in a giant steel griddle, no method of fat collection proves possible. Found any giant steel frying pans in Auschwitz lately have they?

Secondly, if you are going to reapply it immediately there is scant advantage in removing it in the first place.

“I don’t see why I should. Getting desperate?”

No, just trying to save you from further embarrassment.

Nick Terry said...

Andrew, no, I was thinking of Tauber and Filip Mueller.

Nick Terry said...

"Oh! I see, “historical” facts don’t require scientific verification?"

The bodies are just as burnt and gone whatever anyone can hypothesise about how they were burnt. The cremation of the bodies being a historical fact, the precise details of how this occurred are of secondary interest to most people.

"So when I asked you if you have any scientific research to back up your assertions and you responded by admitting that you didn’t, that was somehow “wishful thinking” on my part? It looks quite black and white in your original post Roberto, but I’m sure I’m just imagining it".

No, idiot, yours is the burden of proof on this. At the moment, all you have is argumentum ad ignorantium, argument from personal incredulity. There is nothing in the physics of thermodynamics that precludes what was described from having taken place.

"Firstly you would have the, not inconsiderable, problem of collecting it in sufficient quantities."

Let's see now. 1000 bodies would contain, using human averages, several tons of fat. The bodies under discussion here were mostly new arrivals who would not have been emaciated. The average human today has 15lbs of fat on them, even if you drop that by a third to account for the era and for children, we're talking up to 5000lb of human fat inside 1000 bodies.

Even if 99% of the fat remained inside the bodies, or ran off and could not be caught, but 1% could be, you're talking about many tens of pounds of fat. Fat has a BTU of 20,000 per pound, which uis close to that of petrol. So even if only 20lb could be captured, this is the equivalent of several gallons of petrol.

All the witness descriptions mention human fat being added in conjunction with more petrol, more wood, and a general stoking. The bodies weren't simply basted like a gigantic turkey, any more than a turkey is cooked simply by basting it. But the turkey cooks faster when it's basted, and in this method of mass cremation, the bodies burn faster if you have some slave labourer Sonderkommandos scoop up a few ladlefuls of fat and pour it back on.

"Your scenario: Bodies placed on wood pyre, gasoline applied, fire ignited, bodies reach a certain temperature at which point all human fat pours steadily from the body and is collected. Collection can be done within a timescale that precludes any significant cooling of the fat, fat reapplied, massive combustion, end."

Have you ever poured extra oil onto a fry-up? Even if it's cold, the oil heats up quickly enough. In this instance, the fat that had run off would not be cold, would it? The heat of the pyre, if high enough to cause fat to run off, would be high enough to heat the same fat, scooped back up after a matter of minutes, back up.

"My scenario: Bodies placed on wooden pyre, gasoline applied, fire ignited, bodies reach a certain temperature at which point bodies begin to combust, skin ruptures, fat hisses and spits from some of the more corpulent corpses, some of the fat ignites, some runs out, other bodies burn more slowly, short of placing the corpses in a giant steel griddle, no method of fat collection proves possible. Found any giant steel frying pans in Auschwitz lately have they?"

No need for steel anything, dug channels were used.

"Secondly, if you are going to reapply it immediately there is scant advantage in removing it in the first place."

Idiot, the fat runs off of its own accord. Why not scoop some up and save it from sinking into the earth? You can figure a far larger percentage went completely to waste.

"No, just trying to save you from further embarrassment."

In our experience, it's deniers who embarrass first.

Did you flunk physics in your Highers, or did your brain rot after school?

The New Athenian said...

“The bodies are just as burnt and gone whatever anyone can hypothesise about how they were burnt. The cremation of the bodies being a historical fact”

Factual status is based on evidence. We are discussing that evidence. You’re not quite grasping that are you?

“No, idiot, yours is the burden of proof on this”

I didn’t set up a blog that boldly demands, “What part of the word genocide do you not understand?” That legend puts the burden of proof on you. A burden you seem woefully ill equipped to shoulder Nick.

"At the moment, all you have is argumentum ad ignorantium, argument from personal incredulity”

And that sounds a lot like argumentum ad hominem. My incredulity is based on my perceptions of obvious practical problems posed by the proposed operation. Problems which to me seem to be insurmountable.

“There is nothing in the physics of thermodynamics that precludes what was described from having taken place”

We are not dealing with laws of thermodynamics. We are dealing with the pragmatic application of these laws.

Have you ever poured extra oil onto a fry-up?

I’ve never had a fry up that involved the direct application of foodstuffs onto burning wood. A better experiment would involve placing rashers of bacon on a wood fire. If you do this I think you will find that either your fat combusts without melting or melts and is consumed in the flames and embers of the fire.

“The heat of the pyre, if high enough to cause fat to run off, would be high enough to heat the same fat, scooped back up after a matter of minutes, back up”

So you are telling me that the fat first liquefied and flowed through a blazing wood fire, ran into a trench and flowed down the trench into collection vessels. The fat is then thrown back onto the fire. The fat can’t be any hotter than it was when it first melted and may, in fact be a bit cooler, why does the fat not once more, simply flow through the blazing fire and run into the trench?

“Did you flunk physics in your Highers, or did your brain rot after school?”

I think the words “petty” and “immature” might be applicable to your closing statement.

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

Voxceltica
>“No, I’m saying that, as I’m not denying historical facts like you are”

>Oh! I see, “historical” facts don’t require scientific verification?

Historical facts are based on scientific verification, my friend. Historiography is a science verifying the eyewitness, documentary, demographic and physical evidence regarding a certain event and reconstructing that event based on such verification. That’s what this science has been doing in regard to any event in history, and the Nazi genocide of the Jews has not been treated differently from any other – except perhaps that it has been investigated more thoroughly than many other historical events or phenomena.

>“Wishful thinking is also thinking and often the only thinking that “Revisionists” are capable of”

>So when I asked you if you have any scientific research to back up your assertions and you >responded by admitting that you didn’t,

Trying to turn my words around again?

>that was somehow “wishful thinking” on my part? It >looks quite black and white in your >original post Roberto, but I’m sure I’m just imagining it.

You still don’t get it, do you?

Xcalibur asked you: “Do you people ever do any scientific research to back up your denials?”

You messed up by replying:

>Do you have any scientific research to back up yours?

“Yours”, in this context, means “your denial”, and the term “denial”, as used by Xcalibur, means denial of certain historical facts.

So I pointed out that, as we do not deny historical facts, there’s no room for asking if our denial of historical facts is backed on scientific research. If you had asked if our conviction about historical facts was based on scientific research, the answer would have been what I told you above: yes, it is, just like the established notion of any other historical event.

Got it now, smart-ass?

>“How much colder would that be if it was reapplied immediately, and how would that affect its >combustion properties, if at all?”

>Firstly you would have the, not inconsiderable, problem of collecting it in sufficient quantities.

>Your scenario: Bodies placed on wood pyre, gasoline applied, fire ignited, bodies reach a certain >temperature at which point all human fat pours steadily from the body and is collected. >Collection can be done within a timescale that precludes any significant cooling of the fat, fat >reapplied, massive combustion, end.

What influence, again, would a “significant cooling of the fat” have on its combustion properties?

>My scenario: Bodies placed on wooden pyre, gasoline applied, fire ignited, bodies reach a >certain temperature at which point bodies begin to combust, skin ruptures, fat hisses and spits >from some of the more corpulent corpses, some of the fat ignites, some runs out, other bodies >burn more slowly, short of placing the corpses in a giant steel griddle, no method of fat >collection proves possible.

What’s the last part of your scenario (“no method of fat collection proves possible”) based on?

>Found any giant steel frying pans in Auschwitz lately have they?

Why would such frying pans still have to be around, and why should they have been indispensable in the first place?

>Secondly, if you are going to reapply it immediately there is scant advantage in removing it in >the first place.

Why would that be so? Your claim …

>“I don’t see why I should. Getting desperate?”

>No, just trying to save you from further embarrassment.

Boy, how lame that sounds. Got nothing better?

The New Athenian said...

"Historical facts are based on scientific verification"

No they aren't. Most of them are based on historical record and expert consensus.

You didn't even get off first base with that post and I've addressed all of your other points already. You are only marginally more intelligent than Sergey At least Nicky knows how to construct an argument, even if his argument is wrong, it at least bears some resemblance to what an argument should look like.

The New Athenian said...

“Actually, if you've barbecued, you'll know that at first, the dripping fat hisses. Later on, it ignites and sears the steaks, burgers and sausages from underneath”

Actually, Nicky, what “hisses” as it drips from your steaks and sausages is mainly water.The water evaporates. The temperature of the coals rise and then the fat begins to melt. The fat ignites on contact with the coals. I’ll give a full appraisal of your post later.

Nick Terry said...

Oooh, I stand corrected!

But let's see how our idiot interloper does when accounting for the whereabouts of all the fat.

1000 bodies, yes? How much fat per body, on average? The average was recorded in the 1960s as 15.3kg. But these are 1940s bodies who haven't gone well-fed. And children, though you should be warned that children have a higher proportion of fat.

So let's see, that's somewhere between 5 and 10 metric *tons* of fat inside the bodies of the 1000 people being mass-cremated. 1000 x 5-10kg = 5 to 10 metric tons, right?

Now let's arrange the bodies. At the bottom is a layer of wood. Then a layer of bodies. Then another layer of wood. Then another layer of bodies. And so on, until you get to the top layer, onto which petrol is poured.

The entire sandwich is 2m deep by 1.5-2m wide by tens of metres long. Has our asshole visitor visualised what the pile looks like yet?

The petrol will, of course, sink into the pile of wood and flesh, and will ignite easily. So now we have the beginnings of a fire.

Question: is it likely that the petrol spread evenly and instantaneously through the body/wood/body/wood sandwich, to a depth of several metres, and evenly and instantaneously set body/wood/body/wood on fire?

Answer: of course it fucking isn't. The uppermost layers will catch the largest quantity of petrol as the petrol descends through the 2m deep sandwich. The bottom-most layers will catch some petrol, but not nearly as much as the top-most layers. NOR do the bottom-most layers have as much access to fire-stoking oxygen as the top-most layers.

Question: so what happens next?

Answer: the fire spreads downwards, chomping its way through body/wood/body/wood layers. At the surface, where there is oxygen to fuel the fire. the fire will be hottest. Heat will be reflected onto the sides by the walls of the pit, the fire on the sides at the top will catch the oxygen while the fire on the sides at the bottom will have less access to oxygen.

Therefore, the bottom-most layers of wood/body/wood cannot be guaranteed to burn at the same rate as the topmost layers. But they can be guaranteed to become charcoaled and barbecued under the impact of the heat spreading downwards with the petrol.

Result: in the first stages of the fire, there are layers of bodies cooking at different rates.

Result: bodies 1.5m higher in the sandwich can well have had their body fat close to combustion or actually combusting, while bodies 1.5m lower in the sandwich can well be heated up enough to have the fat melt, but not enough to have the fat combust.

Next step: body fat in liquid form emerges from the bottom of the pile, is run-off into channels at the *bottom* of the pit, and scooped back up to be poured on top, along with petrol and wood, as fuel to fan the fire to a greater heat.

Final phase: a mass of body fat inside the pile has combusted, the fire has become self-sustaining, cremation occurs.

Seems to me that moron has some 'splaining to do.

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>"Historical facts are based on scientific verification"

>No they aren't. Most of them are based on historical record and expert consensus.

Why, and what are the historical record and expert consensus based on, smart-ass?

>You didn't even get off first base with that post and I've addressed all of your other points >already.

Very poorly so, if at all. And your hollow claims of victory are characteristic of loonies like yourself. Do you hope that people read your stuff alone, or why do you write such shit?

>You are only marginally more intelligent than Sergey

Thanks, that’s a compliment, though I don’t think it’s accurate. And I also don’t return it, for you come across as one of those dumb-as-sand frustrates who think they are absolutely brilliant and that the cruel world, because it’s Jew-dominated or whatever, has failed to acknowledge their brilliance.

>At least Nicky knows how to >construct an argument, even if >his argument is wrong, it at
>least bears some resemblance to >what an argument should look >like.

What do we have here, an intellectual chihuahua trying to take a leak?

The New Athenian said...

Hi Nicky!

You’re not too bright are you?

“Result: bodies 1.5m higher in the sandwich can well have had their body fat close to combustion or actually combusting, while bodies 1.5m lower in the sandwich can well be heated up enough to have the fat melt, but not enough to have the fat combust”

Your are confusing combustion due to extreme heat with combustion due to exposure to sparks and flame. If you put a pot of lard on your cooker and turn up the heat, the fat will have to achieve an extremely high temperature before it ignites. If however you raise the temperature just enough to liquefy the fat and then drop burning matches and hot embers into the fat, the fat will burst into flames without having to be super hot. It’s a bit like this, if you put a paper taper onto a hot electric ring the taper will take some time to burst into flame, the paper will blacken, it will smoulder, it will burn red at the edges, after some time it will burst into flame. If you take the same paper taper and stick it into a burning gas ring, it will immediately burst into flame. So you see Nicky the temperature at the base of the fire is irrelevant. The melted fat would be ignited by hot embers falling from the wooden fire above and flames licking down the side of the fire. If you think that a flammable liquid can only be ignited by heating to flash point, why do you think that it is illegal to smoke in petrol stations?

Did I "splain" that right for you Nicky?

gharis said...

"That is to say, anyone who has ever cooked meat on a stove, in an oven or on a barbecue knows that it is possible to heat meat to beyond 200 degrees Celsius without it automatically catching fire, and that fat WILL run out of the meat in large quantities."

The process of cooking meat in an oven or on a barbecue seems to me opposite to the process of open air incineration. When one cooks meat, for example delicious shaslik, the method is to NOT let the flames touch the meat. Although any fat that runs out into the burning coals immediately catches fire.

In order to succesfully collect fat from bodies one would need to implement a "roasting" system - where by flames were prevent from touching the body and also a metal or ceramic collecting tray that could drain dripping fat was between the flames and the body.

This would automatically mean a very inefficient cremation system.

A normal pyre where the fat dripped into the pyre beneath the carcase would not be able to collect fat.

"The petrol will, of course, sink into the pile of wood and flesh, and will ignite easily. So now we have the beginnings of a fire. "

So if we can collect highly combustible fat why cant we collect equally combustible petrol?

What is this miracle pyre arrangement that allows one flammable liquid to be collected and the other to serve as accelerant?

The shameful hypocrisy of the Zionist entity knows no bounds. How long, dear God, before it is removed from the page of time?

How long?

Nick Terry said...

"Hi Nicky!"

Hi asshole! What have you got for me today?

"You’re not too bright are you?"

Bright enough to know when you're dodging my points, dickhead.

"Your are confusing combustion due to extreme heat with combustion due to exposure to sparks and flame."

You're confusing the kitchen with the situation at hand.

Please demonstrate that in the 1.5m deep x 1.5-2m wide x tens of metres long sandwich, there would be sparks and flames throughout.

"If you think that a flammable liquid can only be ignited by heating to flash point, why do you think that it is illegal to smoke in petrol stations?"

Because petrol's flash point is waaaaay lower than that of fats.

flash point of petrol - > 45C
flash point of human fat - 250C.

melting point of lard - 65C
flash point of lard - 215C

The New Athenian said...

“Because petrol's flash point is waaaaay lower than that of fats”

I’ll try and “splain” this real simple for you Nicky.It’s not about flash point it is about kindling point. If you heat lard in a pan in a pot on a stove the lard will have to be raised to a temperature of 215C before the lard will ignite. In a pan the lard can escape from the source of heat by convection. The heated fat rises before it can reach flash point and is replaced by cooler fat from the top of the pan. If you drop hot embers or matches into a pan of melted lard it will burst into flame despite the fact that the oil in then pan is well below flash point. This is because the oil cannot escape from the heat source. The hot lard around the burning match or ember rapidly rises to flash point and ignites and in turn raises the temperature of the fat around it which also ignites, this causes a chain reaction which quickly ignites the entire fuel supply. In a trench 1.5m deep x 1.5-2m wide x tens of metres long filled with blazing petrol soaked logs it is virtually impossible for melting fat to avoid ignition through exposure to sparks, flames and burning embers. The general distribution of temperature within the trench is irrelevant.

Ignition: apparatus for igniting a combustible mixture.

Flash point: the lowest temperature at which the vapour of a combustible liquid can be made to ignite momentarily in air.

Nick Terry said...

"This is because the oil cannot escape from the heat source."

We're not dealing with a pan full of lard here are we?

"In a trench 1.5m deep x 1.5-2m wide x tens of metres long filled with blazing petrol soaked logs"

The logs weren't soaked with petrol beforehand, the petrol was poured on last, by all witness accounts.

"it is virtually impossible for melting fat to avoid ignition through exposure to sparks, flames and burning embers."

Given the potential quantity of fat that could fly off, I'd say it was quite likely.

"The general distribution of temperature within the trench is irrelevant."

Only if you can _prove_ that it *must* have been the case that the entire pyre could have been set on fire simultaneously. Which you can't.

Your entire hypothesis is based on the idea that the pyre was surrounded by a moat of fire virtually instantly. This is simply implausible, when dealing with a mass cremation

Oh yeah, one of the witnesses spoke of 2500 bodies at a time. So that's 15 tons of fat you've got to keep inside and automatically exposed to flame.

The New Athenian said...

“We're not dealing with a pan full of lard here are we?”

Exactly! Which is why the general temperature of the various parts of the trench is irrelevant to ignition.

“Only if you can _prove_ that it *must* have been the case that the entire pyre could have been set on fire simultaneously”

Melting human fat would necessitate combustion of your fuel supply. Combustion of your fuel supply would generate the sparks flames and embers that would guarantee the ignition of that fat.

“Given the potential quantity of fat that could fly off, I'd say it was quite likely”

Hmmm! Magical “flying” fat now! The fat would neither “fly” nor “flow”. It would soak into the timbers and earth beneath the bodies.

“Your entire hypothesis is based on the idea that the pyre was surrounded by a moat of fire virtually instantly”

No it isn’t. It’s based on the idea that local ignition agents would set fire to molten fat and that if any small residues of fat escaped immediate ignition they would soak into the timbers and earth beneath the bodies where, they would ignite later as the fire consumed the lower levels of the pyre.

“Oh yeah, one of the witnesses spoke of 2500 bodies at a time. So that's 15 tons of fat you've got to keep inside and automatically exposed to flame”

That’s fifteen tons of molten fat that you’ve got to prevent from coming into contact with a single spark, ember or flame in a sunken blazing pyre. ROFL!

Keep it coming Nicky!

Nick Terry said...

"Exactly! Which is why the general temperature of the various parts of the trench is irrelevant to ignition."

Ummm... wrong. Top can be on fire, bottom need not be. Indeed, the logic of the channels is that fat would melt from layers of bodies that were not yet in *full* contact with the force of the blaze, and run off.

"Melting human fat would necessitate combustion of your fuel supply."

Nope, not uniformly through all layers.

I would bet that if you arranged 2500 sausages (low-fat, of course) into a pit, with a proportionate amount of wood between them, and then poured a proportionate amount of petrol onto the top, that the bottom of the pile would not be alight instantly, that the sausages at the bottom would spit out fat in all directions.

"Combustion of your fuel supply would generate the sparks flames and embers that would guarantee the ignition of that fat."

Again, please prove that the wood at the bottom of the pile would automatically combust because some petrol had been poured on to the top, many layers above.

"Hmmm! Magical “flying” fat now! The fat would neither “fly” nor “flow”. It would soak into the timbers and earth beneath the bodies."

Oh come now. You're seriously telling me that a certain amount of fat does not fly when heated? Have you never cleaned an oven after a fry-up?

Just to remind you, we're talking many tons of fat here.

"No it isn’t. It’s based on the idea that local ignition agents would set fire to molten fat and that if any small residues of fat escaped immediate ignition they would soak into the timbers and earth beneath the bodies where, they would ignite later as the fire consumed the lower levels of the pyre."

Most of the liquid fat would indeed soak into the timbers. I already explained that many times over. But can you honestly say that 100% of the fat would be so consumed? If even 1% of the fat leaked out of the pile, then we're talking many, many gallons.

"That’s fifteen tons of molten fat that you’ve got to prevent from coming into contact with a single spark, ember or flame in a sunken blazing pyre. ROFL!"

Once again, please *prove* that the entire pyre, tens of metres long by 1.5-2m deep by 1.5-2m wide, would all be on fire, subjected to sparks or close to embers simultaneously.

The New Athenian said...

“Once again, please *prove* that the entire pyre, tens of metres long by 1.5-2m deep by 1.5-2m wide, would all be on fire, subjected to sparks or close to embers simultaneously”

So while some areas of the pyre were busy burning away fat blazing and hissing, other areas lie cold and dormant or smoulder at low temperature.
How do the cool areas of the pyre generate enough heat to melt the fat you are trying to collect, Nicky? After all as you have so carefully explained heat generally rises, so the extent of the conflagration necessary to melt the fat of the bodies beneath it, would certainly be sufficient to create sparks and embers which would ignite that molten fat. The fat wouldn’t melt in areas that weren’t on fire Nicholas. Ninety nine percent of your argument has disappeared up your arse Nicky, I’d advise you to suck the remaining turtles head back in yourself before its rammed back for you.

Nick Terry said...

"So while some areas of the pyre were busy burning away fat blazing and hissing, other areas lie cold and dormant or smoulder at low temperature."

Don't you love it when these idiots go from one extreme to the next?

First he says that everything would be on fire. Now he tries to argue that 'other areas lie cold', or imagines that this is what my argument is.

Cold, no. Less hot, yes. Unexposed to direct flame, yes. If there were hypothetically 10 layers (wood/body/wood), then one can easily have the 10th topmost layer be blazing hot (many hundreds of degrees celsius), the 6th layer very hot, and the 1st layer at the bottom simply hot.

"How do the cool areas of the pyre generate enough heat to melt the fat you are trying to collect, Nicky?"

Because there aren't any 'cool areas'. There's a raging fire at the top of the pile, generating intense heat, melting the fat in the next layer below and then combusting it, in a chain reaction. This cannot be assumed to have happened instantaneously.

"After all as you have so carefully explained heat generally rises,"

Yeees, and what's it like if you were to walk underneath a ceiling that is on fire? Is it cold? I think not.

At the bottom of the pile, there would be less oxygen - but only at first! The topmost layers would have the greatest surface area exposed to the air, and thus burn faster. Sooner or later, the fire would be intense enough to have cremated the topmost layers of bodies and wood, turning the flesh and wood into ash.

The actual incineration would thus proceed 'downwards', in that the topmost layer would be burnt away to ash first. Now you tell me how quickly the fire progresses down through the pile.

"so the extent of the conflagration necessary to melt the fat of the bodies beneath it,"

topmost layer - on fire
2nd/3rd layers - on fire
4th/5th layers - catching fire
6th/7th layers - smouldering, fat dripping down from 4th/5th layers
8th/9th layers - hot enough to melt
10th layer - hot

Later on, the topmost layers would have burnt off to ash, and the bottom-most layers would be on fire.

"would certainly be sufficient to create sparks and embers which would ignite that molten fat.

Once again, please prove that this would necessarily be so. Go take some sausages, branches and fuel, and run a little experiment. Send me the pictures.

"The fat wouldn’t melt in areas that weren’t on fire Nicholas."

Um, yes it would, since the melting point of fat is quite low. If you have a fire that is reaching several hundred degrees on the surface, and several layers of material below it, they will heat up. Wood burns, but it does not generally burn instantaneously, does it? Human bodies burn, but they don't turn to a crisp instantaneously, do they?

"Ninety nine percent of your argument has disappeared up your arse Nicky, I’d advise you to suck the remaining turtles head back in yourself before its rammed back for you."

On the contrary, all you can do is repeat yourself over and over and over again. You've shown no understanding of the situation, you've not offered a model whereby you can *demonstrate* that 100%, without fail, of the fat would be automatically exposed to sufficient flame that it would for-sure combust.

These mass cremations took hours. Do you honestly expect me to believe that the fires were constant throughout a pile of wood and bodies weighing in total, anything up to a couple of hundred tons?

The New Athenian said...

There are a number of errors in your analysis as it pertains to human fat and its potential for combustion in the circumstances under discussion. You are assuming that the critical factor in the release of fat is the attainment of melt point temperature. You are failing to take into account that the skin of the cadaver restrains this fat. Considerable suppuration of the skin would be required for egress of liquid fat. If we use your example of the sausage, you will notice that fat weeps and seeps slowly from a cooking sausage and will only flow in noticeable quantities when very high temperatures (temperatures way above melting point) cause rupturing of the skin. Try filling the bottom of your grill pan with wood shavings and then cook some sausages. The fuel below will ignite long before your sausages release any significant amount of fat. You have also, in your crude estimation failed to make any distinction between subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. How hot would the surrounding fire have to be to melt visceral fat deposits?

Can you tell me how the petrol was poured on to the burning fire please Nicky?

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

In Portugal we have these nice mini-grills made of clay. They consist of a clay tub about 20 centimeters long, ten centimeters wide and 8 to 10 cms high, with horizontal bars of clay on top. Into the tub you pour alcohol, and on top of the bars you put a chouriço, which is a sausage that looks like this: http://www.amaralsmarket.com/cgi-local/store/Html/Images/chourico.jpg
You light the alcohol and let the chouriço grill, nice for a pick-nick if handled with due care. What I have seen happen more than once is, the fat from the chouriço drops into the tub and mixes there with the burning alcohol. When the alcohol is spent, the tub has liquid fat at the bottom, some but not all of which may be burning, but not for long. Eventually the fire will go out and the liquid fat will start turning into grease as the tub cools, which you should clean out with a newspaper before packing up your pick-nick stuff. Maybe this is of interest to the entertaining discussion at hand.

>Can you tell me how the petrol was poured on to the burning fire please Nicky?

Have you already told us what you think would be the problem?

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

Nick
>Andrew, no, I was thinking of Tauber and Filip Mueller.

Rudolf Höss also mentions fat pouring in his autobiography. And he does it incidentally in the context of discussing the mentality of the Sonderkommando Jews, which I think lends additional credibility to his account. From the excerpt of Höss’s autobiography transcribed under http://p102.ezboard.com/frodohforumfrm12.showMessage?topicID=251.topic :

«Sie führten diese Opfer so, daß diese den mit dem Gewehr bereitstehenden Unterführer nicht sehen konnten und dieser so unbemerkt das Gewehr im Nacken ansetzen konnte. So verfuhren sie auch mit den Kranken und Gebrechlichen, die nicht in die Gasräume gebracht werden konnten. Alles mit einer Selbstverständlichkeit, als wenn sie selbst zu den Vernichtern gehörten. Dann das Herausziehen der Leichen aus den Kammern, das Entfernen der Goldzähne, das Abschneiden der Haare, das Hinschleppen zu den Gruben oder an die Öfen. Das Unterhalten des Feuers bei den Gruben, das Übergießen des angesammelten Fettes, das Herumstochern in den brennenden Leichenbergen, um Luft zuzuführen. All diese Arbeiten machten sie mit einer stumpfen Gleichgültigkeit, als wenn es irgend etwas Alltägliches wäre. Beim Leichenschleppen aßen sie oder rauchten. Selbst bei der grausigen Arbeit des Verbrennens der schon längere Zeit in den Massengräbern liegenden ließen sie sich nicht vom Essen abhalten.»

«das Übergießen des angesammelten Fettes» = «the pouring-over of the collected fat»

Sergey Romanov said...

Chickenvox asked:

"You start with the conclusion and fit the premises around it?"

No.

"That sounds like uncommon sense to me, still who am I to question your radical revision of basic scientific methodology?"

How does science fit in at all here? History is not science.

"Your “brainless scum” point is rather convincing."

It's not a point, it's an observation.

"I’m not quite sure how to respond to such perceptive critique."

Dunno. Grow one, maybe.

The New Athenian said...

Roberto

That’s a lovely digression about grilling sausages with alcohol in a clay barbecue. Do you do any outdoor cooking involving sandwiching sausages between layers of solid fuel? If you do your observations may even be relevant to this thread topic.

Sirgay

“Grow one, maybe... The only thing I could grow which might increase our mutual understanding would be “more stupid”.

Sergey Romanov said...

Chickenvox:

"The only thing I could grow which might increase our mutual understanding would be “more stupid”."

I won't demand that. I don't demand the impossible.

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>Roberto

>That’s a lovely digression about grilling sausages with alcohol in a clay barbecue. Do you do >any outdoor cooking involving sandwiching sausages between layers of solid fuel? If you do >your observations may even be relevant to this thread topic.

Assuming our great intellectual can explain why relevance of the phenomenon observed to this thread topic should require «sandwiching sausages between layers of solid fuel», which I don’t think he can.

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>Sirgay

Unlike the great intellectual’s puerile moniker, Sergey’s "chickenvox" is an appropriate designation, considering the great intellectual’s ongoing failure to identify himself.

Kiwiwriter said...

Another point is that the Auschwitz death toll is 1.5 million, which is just over one-sixth of the Holocaust death bill.

So denier quibbling over the grisly mechanics of the Auschwitz gas chamber and crematoria do not disprove the Holocaust...they have nothing to do with the Einsatzkommandos, the other camps, or the other extermination measures.

"No holes...no Holocaust" is a sweeping generality.

Kiwiwriter said...

KW, look up these sites:

http://holocaust-info.dk/statistics/hillberg_cause.htm
http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/auschwitz.html

The death toll of Auschwitz-Birkenau was about 1 million, thereof about 900,000 Jews, according to recent research by Gerlach and Aly.

>So denier quibbling over the grisly mechanics of the Auschwitz gas chamber and crematoria >do not disprove the Holocaust...they have nothing to do with the Einsatzkommandos, the >other camps, or the other extermination measures.

I don’t think our friend wants to "disprove" the Nazi genocide of the Jews. He just wants to show what a great intellectual he is.

> Actually, as you noted, his purpose is not only to show off an erudition he neither earned nor deserved, but to hurl derision and contempt at people who defend the truth so as to advance his own worthless cause and to invest his life and existence with importance and attention that he does not deserve, either.

But as you also noted, he's admitted to not being "intelligent and articulate" enough for dialogue, and his only real weapons are "derision and contempt."

In other words, he's trying very, very, very hard to be the middle school bullies who probably threw his schoolbags down the stairs, smacked him on the back of the head, and calling him unpleasant names, in front of the other kids and the girls upon whom he had unrelieved crushes...and maybe the boys, too...

My guess is that those bullies were probably Indian, Pakistani, African, and Asian kids in his Glasgow comprehensive, and he is still determined to show those bullies that "white power" can rule the school and the day.

The New Athenian said...

“So denier quibbling over the grisly mechanics of the Auschwitz gas chamber and crematoria >do not disprove the Holocaust...they have nothing to do with the Einsatzkommandos, the >other camps, or the other extermination measures”

Ahhhh! Finally the holocaust fundamentalists invoke their escape clause. After posting several thousand words badly defending improbable allegations they turn around and claim that the whole subject is irrelevant. Bravo gentlemen!

“to advance his own worthless cause and to invest his life and existence with importance and attention that he does not deserve”

A perfect example of Freudian projection, and also a perfect description of holocaust fundamentalists; bravo once more.

“In other words, he's trying very, very, very hard to be the middle school bullies who probably threw his schoolbags down the stairs, smacked him on the back of the head, and calling him unpleasant names, in front of the other kids and the girls upon whom he had unrelieved crushes...and maybe the boys, too”

The crafting of a psychological mythos for understanding dissent has its genesis in Communist Russia (the state inspired by Marx and Engles), where dissidents were diagnosed as mentally ill.

“and maybe the boys, too”

Voxceltica is a male homosexual; surely the most puerile ad hom know to mankind. You are really showing your class Lippman.

“My guess is that those bullies were probably Indian, Pakistani, African, and Asian kids in his Glasgow comprehensive”

I’m glad you acknowledge the extensive anti-White racism engendered by subscription to the multicultural philosophy of Jewish intellectual Horace Kallen. The worst example of this racism was the protracted torture, mutilation and burning alive of fifteen-year-old Kriss Donald, a murder that strangely didn’t get the same national media attention as far less savage murders of Blacks like Anthony Walker and Steven Lawrence for some reason.

Amateur historian, amateur psychologist, your talents have almost no beginnings Dave.

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>“So denier quibbling over the grisly mechanics of the Auschwitz gas chamber and crematoria >do not disprove the Holocaust...they have nothing to do with the Einsatzkommandos, the >other camps, or the other extermination measures”

>Ahhhh! Finally the holocaust fundamentalists invoke their escape clause. After posting several >thousand words badly defending improbable allegations they turn around and claim that the >whole subject is irrelevant. Bravo gentlemen!

Wishful thinking is also thinking, apparently much the only thinking that the great intellectual is capable of. The thought that David might just have wanted to remind him of the futility of his haggling about details of the body disposal process at Auschwitz-Birkenau apparently didn’t occur to this showpiece of white supremacist intellectual brilliance. And it apparently takes that intellectual brilliance to see a contradiction between exposing the evidentiary and/or argumentative fallacies of his haggling and pointing out the irrelevance thereof.

>I’m glad you acknowledge the extensive anti-White racism engendered by subscription to the >multicultural philosophy of Jewish intellectual Horace Kallen. The worst example of this racism >was the protracted torture, mutilation and burning alive of fifteen-year-old Kriss Donald, a >murder that strangely didn’t get the same national media attention as far less savage murders >of Blacks like Anthony Walker and Steven Lawrence for some reason.

No comment except one: please give us more such "what they do nobody cares about, what we do everybody howls about" - statements, Vox. They are so instructive of that oh-so-brilliant mind’s deplorable contents that they are worth collecting.

Sergey Romanov said...

Poor Chickenvox. He thought he got into a lair of some naive liberals. Instead he got a spanking of his life.

Cluck cluck cluck!

:-)

The New Athenian said...

Ahhh! So I’ve been spanked? We’ve arrived at the last sorry act in the pathetic cabaret that is holocaust fundamentalism, the hollow declaration of victory.

Okay, you are claiming that I’ve been spanked, considering the amount of keyboard time several of you have spent in your clumsy attempts at rebuttal; this “spanking” must be giving you some satisfaction. I challenge you to post this thread in it’s entirety on Stormfront (I’m neither a fan or a reader), The Birdman’s website or some other organ of your enemies, to show what a “spanking” I’ve had. Be prepared to be laughed out off the blogosphere, until then STFU.

VOX

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>Ahhh! So I’ve been spanked? We’ve arrived at the last sorry act in the pathetic cabaret that is >holocaust fundamentalism, the hollow declaration of victory.

Hollow declarations of victory are the trademark of white supremacist or other conspiraloons. Sergey’s was just a plain statement of fact.

>Okay, you are claiming that I’ve been spanked,

No, we’re concluding on this.

>considering the amount of keyboard time >several of you have spent in your clumsy attempts >at rebuttal;

No, considering the poverty of your evidence (if any) and arguments.

>this “spanking” must be giving you some satisfaction.

No, the satisfaction comes from the instructive showpiece of white supremacist intellectual manure you kindly provided. We like to show our readers what you people are all about, and you cooperated splendidly.

>I challenge you to post this thread in it’s entirety on Stormfront (I’m neither a fan or a >reader), The Birdman’s website or some other organ of your enemies, to show what a >“spanking” I’ve had. Be prepared to be laughed out off the blogosphere, until then STFU.

Yeah, I’m sure the Birdbrain or Stormfront troglodytes (see some samples under http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2006/08/meet-celtic-patriots-best-friend.html ) will be laughing their heads off and thereby providing further showpieces of phenomena we like to show our readers. Whether they’ll even understand what they are supposed to be laughing about is another matter.

Talk about challenges, here’s one for you: meet me on the forum for Real Open Debate on the Holocaust (RODOH), which you find under http://p102.ezboard.com/brodohforumYou won’t be alone there, trust me. While you may not necessarily find fellow white supremacists, so-called "Revisionists" there are enough. The forum’s boss, Scott Smith, is one as well. This forum was created in response to the discussion forum of the inaptly named "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust" (http://forum.codoh.com/viewforum.php?f=2), aka the Cesspit, where great intellectuals of your kind slap each other on the back and any critic sees his posts mysteriously disappear as soon as he starts kicking "Revisionist" ass.

Ah, before I forget it:

>Voxceltica is a male homosexual; surely the most puerile ad hom know to mankind. You are >really showing your class Lippman.

… said the same fellow who called my fellow contributor "Sirgay".

Never had a problem with contradicting yourself, great intellectual?

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

The RODOH forum's link, once more:
http://p102.ezboard.com/brodohforum

Send me a PM when you are ready.

The New Athenian said...

How about winning the fight you’re in now? If you are so confident that you have proved that fat can be drained from humans in the way described by your eyewitnesses, proclaim your victory on the websites of your rivals. I’ve posted my arguments in a hostile environment, don’t you have the balls to do the same?

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>How about winning the fight you’re in now? If you are so confident that you have proved that >fat can be drained from humans in the way described by your eyewitnesses, proclaim your >victory on the websites of your rivals.

I have no problem with that. I used to post on the CODOH forum until censored and eventually banned, and will continue posting there if someone can convince the moderator "Hannover" to give me an account. But tell me, how would the reaction of our "rivals" change the fact that you ran out of arguments here? Is their judgment supposed to be any standard or something?

>I’ve posted my arguments in a hostile environment, don’t you have the balls to do the same?

As I told you, I have no problem with posting in a "Revisionist" environment and have done so before. But you don’t even seem to have the balls to meet me in a neutral environment (RODOH). As you also didn’t have the balls to reveal your identity as requested to do after getting personal, that doesn’t surprise me at all, however.

The New Athenian said...

More hot air. The only real argument in this thread came from Nick Terry who gave up. You were just the afterbirth. You are claiming that you won this argument. I’d have thought that you would be proud to post news of your victory in the camp of your sworn enemies. Do it or concede like a man.

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>More hot air.

… is what you’re offering, as so often already throughout our brief acquaintance.

Vox
>The only real argument in this thread came from Nick Terry who gave up.

Wishful thinking again? You seem to be big at it.

>You were just the afterbirth. You are claiming that you won this argument.

Does the "you" refer to me, or to me and my fellow contributors? I would strongly resent the insinuation that I’m claiming credit for Nick’s performance, to which I only contributed some ideas. As to claiming that whoever "you" is won this argument, what other conclusions are we supposed to draw from your failure to respond to the last part of my post of September 22, 2006 1:03:00 PM and to my post of September 23, 2006 8:39:20 PM, among others? That you just got bored? Sorry, Vox, but you haven’t come across like someone who would owe a response if he had one.

>I’d have thought that you would be proud to post news of your victory in the camp of your >sworn enemies.

Well, maybe you misunderstood the purpose of this blog, then. But of course we have no problem in taking this discussion to "Hannover"’s Cesspit, each of whose members is also welcome to engage any of us either here or at the RODOH open discussion forum (unfortunately for RODOH, few of "Hannover"’s acolytes will ever venture out of the Führerbunker, and "Hannover" is too much a coward to do that anyway). Have you already asked "Hannover" whether he would allow me to post on his forum?

>Do it or concede like a man.

Your reasoning is somewhat strange, my friend. How would our not taking this discussion to the Cesspit change the apparent fact that you ran out of arguments here? Please explain that. And keep us informed about your efforts to obtain my (re-)admission to the CODOH Cesspit, will you?

Talk about being a man, have you already opened your RODOH account?

And when can we expect you to reveal the Christian name that is behind this "Sirgay" ad hominem smear?

The New Athenian said...

“I would strongly resent the insinuation that I’m claiming credit for Nick’s performance”

I don’t blame you.

“your failure to respond to the last part of my post of September 22, 2006 1:03:00 PM and to my post of September 23, 2006 8:39:20 PM, among others”

Hit me with your most brilliant point then Muelenkamp.

“That you just got bored?”

I was quite happily debating with NT but unfortunately he seemed to get bored. You on the other hand are rather boring. You seem to be labouring under the delusion that you were banned from CODOH because of your obvious brilliance. Have you ever considered that it might have been because you are an abusive pedant who makes bad arguments? For most sane people endless discussion of the holocaust is boring. Endless discussion of the holocaust with you takes it to a whole new level.

“And when can we expect you to reveal the Christian name that is behind this "Sirgay" ad hominem smear?”

So the macho Neanderthal didn’t like the suggestion that he might be gay? Is homophobia another one of his charming traits? What does my identity have to do with the validity of my arguments?

Hiding behind a hasty counter-challenge wont get you off the hook sunshine, link the thread or button your lip.

The New Athenian said...

“Yep, that’s why I only engage in it when fanatics like yourself can't keep their trap shut”

Your “trap” has just been open for the full duration of the longest least informative post of this thread. You have a gift bordering on genius for compressing the least amount of thought into the greatest number of words, Muelenkamp.

Now take your tongue out of Nick Terry’s arse for a moment and tell me again how this molten fat was collected from these pyres?

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>“Yep, that’s why I only engage in it when fanatics like yourself can't keep their trap shut”

>Your “trap” has just been open for the full duration of the longest least informative post of this >thread.

In your irrelevant opinion, that may be so. Is the great intellectual's hysteria getting out of control?

>You have a gift bordering on genius for compressing the least amount of thought into the >greatest number of words, Muelenkamp.

Same as above.

>Now take your tongue out of Nick Terry’s arse for a moment

What’s your Christian name again, chickenshit?

>and tell me again how this molten fat was collected from these pyres?

No, you tell me why you think there would have been no way to collect fat emanating from these pyres.

The New Athenian said...

“No, you tell me why you think there would have been no way to collect fat emanating from these pyres”

Quite simple really, as I’ve already explained to Nick Terry who gave up the ghost some time ago now, If you can’t understand my previous posts give me your snail mail address and I’ll write it out in crayon for you.

Your single contribution to the debate was some inane and irrelevant observation about alcohol stoves.

“What’s your Christian name again, chickenshit?”

No it’s not chickenshit, guess again nimrod.

“>You have a gift bordering on genius for compressing the least amount of thought into the >greatest number of words, Muelenkamp.” Me

”Same as above.” You

Takes one to know one? How appropriate that the wit of the playground follows the wisdom of the lunatic asylum.

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>“No, you tell me why you think there would have been no way to collect fat emanating from >these pyres”

>Quite simple really, as I’ve already explained to Nick Terry who gave up the ghost some time >ago now, If you can’t understand my previous posts give me your snail mail address and I’ll >write it out in crayon for you.

Trying to run away from repeating your claim, bigmouth? If it’s the one about the collecting trench or trenches needing to have a certain shape or position in relation to the incineration trench, forget about it unless you can prove that shaping or positioning the collection trench or trenches in such way would have been impossible. Same if you wish to continue claiming that no liquid fat would have reached the bottom of the incineration trench to be collected from there, which you also cannot demonstrate. If you have any new idea, however, feel free to share it with us.

>Your single contribution to the debate was some inane and irrelevant observation about alcohol >stoves.

Assuming our great intellectual can explain what’s supposed to be “inane and irrelevant” about my observation, which shows that fire hot enough to suppurate the skin of a Portuguese chouriço nevertheless does not completely consume the fat dripping into the tub full of burning alcohol.

>“What’s your Christian name again, chickenshit?”

>No it’s not chickenshit, guess again nimrod.

It’s chickenshit as long as don’t show the balls to tell me your Christian name, buddy.

“>You have a gift bordering on genius for compressing the least amount of thought into the >greatest number of words, Muelenkamp.” Me

>”Same as above.” You

>Takes one to know one?

The “same as above” referred to my previous comment: «In your irrelevant opinion, that may be so. Is the great intellectual's hysteria getting out of control?»

>How appropriate that the wit of the playground follows the wisdom of the lunatic asylum.

About which you seem to know a lot. Have you been temporarily released, or are you writing from there?

The New Athenian said...

Here are a couple of points made by Nick Terry which are at least (unlike your nonsense) worthy of discussion.

“Result: bodies 1.5m higher in the sandwich can well have had their body fat close to combustion or actually combusting, while bodies 1.5m lower in the sandwich can well be heated up enough to have the fat melt, but not enough to have the fat combust”

It doesn’t matter how cool the lower portion of the trench is. The fat is melted by burning wood, the burning wood generates embers and sparks. Falling embers or sparks would ignite any leaking fat. If the bodies are not close enough to the fire for embers and sparks to ignite leaking combustibles they are not close enough for fat to melt. If the temperature in the middle portion of the trench was only just hot enough to melt (but not ignite) the human fat and the temperature of the trench got progressively lower as it descends, the fat wouldn’t flow anywhere, it would either congeal or achieve a level of viscosity that would slow any flow to an insignificant trickle.

”Even if 99% of the fat remained inside the bodies, or ran off and could not be caught, but 1% could be, you're talking about many tens of pounds of fat. Fat has a BTU of 20,000 per pound, which uis close to that of petrol. So even if only 20lb could be captured, this is the equivalent of several gallons of petrol”

For the reason given above the amount of fat flowing from the trench is likely to be a fraction of the 20lb postulated by Terry but even if we assume that Terry is right and that 20lbs of fat could be collected we have to remember that that mere 20lb of fat is being applied to a massive trench in order to burn hundreds and hundreds of bodies. With regard to the demands of the operation 20lb of fat (more like 3lb) is insignificant. To put this into perspective the proverbial “bucket of lard” (yes I know that pig fat isn't exactly the same as human fat) sold for domestic use often contained 50lb, 20lb of fat on a fire this big doesn’t cut it.

You are only left with a default position in which you claim that it was this level of inefficiency that led to the abandonment of this practice, even if you use this get out of jail free option, you are still left with a situation in which the events described by eyewitnesses are impossible.

Anonymous said...

Roberto

> Not if you’re interested in bringing the fire to the highest temperature within the shortest possible time. >

During a cremation it is not the goal to bring the fire to "highest temperature within the shortest time". This would be counter productive.

The reason: The protein structure is changed in a way that the corpses do not burn to ashes any more.

A cremation specialist

Nick Terry said...

[sockpuppet post by the sole banned reader we have removed]

Roberto Muehlenkamp said...

>Anonymous said...
>Roberto

> Not if you’re interested in bringing the fire to the highest temperature within the shortest >possible time. >

>During a cremation it is not the goal to bring the fire to "highest temperature within the >shortest time". This would be counter productive.

>The reason: The protein structure is changed in a way that the corpses do not burn to ashes >any more.

>A cremation specialist

By the name of "Claudia", I presume. If I remember correctly, the "thermic barrier", where said change of the protein structure will occur during oven cremation, is around 1300º centigrade or something. If you think the fire in open air incineration reached such temperatures, feel free to demonstrate it. Also explain why what applies to cremation in an oven, which was where you presumably got your "protein structure" thing from, would necessarily apply to incineration in an open fire as well.

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