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From: mstein@access5.digex.net (Michael P. Stein)
Newsgroups: alt.revisionism
Subject: Re: Moshe Peer: A survivor's miraculous tale
Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:37:04 -0400
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In article ,
Orest Slepokura  wrote:

[...]

>In fact, why don't we go back to 1985 and review the "eyewitness"
>testimony of Auschwitz survivor Arnold Friedman, prisoner number B14515?
>It's a remarkable story, he told, at the first "false news" trial of that
>egregious, insatiable publicity hound, Nazi sympathizer Ernst Zundel. 
>
>Among other things Arnold Friedman and fellow inmates believed that they
>could identify whether fat or skinny people, Ukrainians or Poles were
>being cremated at Auschwitz by the mere colour of the smoke released by
>nearby crematorium chimneys. He also testified that he saw "fourteen foot
>flames" shooting out of the chimneys...

    What is so implausible about that?  As I recall, the correct quote is
that it was fat Hungarians (who indeed had a better food supply overall
during the war) vs. skinny Poles.  It seems to me that I cannot reject out
of hand the idea that different fuels (high-fat vs. low-fat)  could
produce different smoke.  (This is independent of the question of whether
this claim was hearsay or not.)

    As for the flames, while fourteen feet probably is a bit high, Mr. 
Steve Looker, president of B&L Cremation Systems in Clearwater, FL and
designer of their products, told me in a telephone interview that older
crematoria absolutely could shoot flames out their stacks if overloaded -
the phenomenon is knowns as a candle.  He said his system was designed to
prevent that, but he thought that if he were actively trying to make it
happen, he would have a decent chance of being able to produce the effect.

    You do not suppose the Birkenau crematoria might have been overloaded
at some point, do you?

    Posted/emailed.
-- 
Mike Stein                      The above represents the Absolute Truth.
POB 10420                       Therefore it cannot possibly be the official
Arlington, VA  22210            position of my employer.

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