Why did the concentration camps have crematory ovens?
43. Why did the concentration camps have crematory ovens?
The IHR says:
To dispose efficiently and sanitarily of the corpses created by the typhus
epidemics.
Nizkor replies:
...and the mass-gassing operations. See the reply to
question 45.
One might ask the IHR why the Nazis required so many stokers, as this SS document clearly demonstrates, if only a few hundred thousand Jews died? (See Question 36
In October 7, 1944, the strength of the sonderkommando (referred to as "heizer" = stoker/burner, in the official SS documents), was:
That is, 663 altogether.
APMO, D-AuII-3a/1, Inventory No. 29723. See Czech,
"Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945". p. 724. See also
Document on display in the "Jewish Martyrdom" exhibit
in Auschwitz Main Camp, listing 661 stokers in October 3,
1944.
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