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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 143 1,900 kcal/kg. 421 At 60% humidity, red pine has a heating value of about 2,000 kcal/kg – without taking into account the heat required to evaporate this water during combustion (640 kcal/kg of water). At a water content of 25% the heating value is 3,780 kcal/kg 422 It follows that 1 kg of dry wood (20% humidity) with a calorific value of 3,800 kcal/kg is the equivalent of 1.9 kg of green wood. Thus, for the cremation of a corpse at Sobibór, some (210×1.9=) 400 kg of fresh wood were needed. Thomas Blatt, however, asserts that “the pyre, sometimes more than three yards high, was then doused with kerosene [423] and ignited.” 424 Kurt Ticho/Thomas speaks also of coal as fuel for the cremations. 425 To demonstrate a fortiori the inconsistency of the Holocaust thesis, we will assume that the use of kerosene and/or coal would have brought down the fresh wood requirements by one quarter, i.e. to 300 kg per corpse, even though such a hypothesis would be rather unlikely. 426 What is more, the Third Reich could not afford to waste gasoline or other liquid fuels in such a manner. Schelvis tells us: 427 “The pressing shortage of petrol and fuel oil had turned peat into a significant energy resource, as it was suitable not only for burning in stoves, but also as a fuel for generators. Globocnik complained about his dwindling petrol rations and of barely being able to keep his gassing engines running.” 421 See note 409: 3,400 Btu/lb = circa 1,900 Kcal/kg. 422 “Energie rinnovabili” (renewable energies), www.pd.camcom.it/dev_cciaa/Web nsf/C1256C75005AA1D4C125735200246A54/$file /biomasse.pdf; according to other sources, the heating value is 3,700-3,800 kcal/kg for a humidity of 12-15%: www.cofea.it/public/all_00029.pdf 423 In a later German version (2004) quoted by Jens Hoffman, the term “Benzin” (gasoline) appears here, presumably with the consent of Thomas Blatt. See J. Hoffmann, “Das kann man nicht erzählen.” “Aktion 1005.” Wie die Nazis die Spuren ihrer Massenmorde in Osteuropa beseitigten, KVV konkret, Hamburg 2008, p. 244. The fuel value of gasoline is 10,500 Kcal/kg, almost identical to that of kerosene. It must be noted, however, that the use of gasoline would have been very dangerous on account of its volatility: by the time the corpses would have been thoroughly doused, ignition could have caused an explosion of the gasoline/air mixture. 424 T. Blatt, op. cit. (note 17), p. 18. 425 M. Novitch, op. cit. (note 39), p. 78. 426 For example, in order to replace the heat produced by 100 kg of fresh wood, ([2,000×100]÷10,300=] 19,4 liters of kerosene (or 19 liters of gasoline), or else ([2,000×100]÷6,200=] 32.2 kg of coal per corpse would have been required, for a total of (169,000×19.4=) 3,278,600 liters of kerosene (or 3,211,000 liters of gasoline) or (169,000×32.2=) 5,441,800 kg of coal, or amounts intermediate between the two, if both were used. 427 J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 70), p. 139.
144 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR On 4 September 1942 he therefore wrote to SS-Hauptsturmführer W. Grothmann, Himmler’s adjutant at the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA, Imperial Security Main Office) in Berlin, asking to be assigned “mehr Treibstoff” (more fuel). 428 Even so, the requirements of green wood for the Sobibór cremations would have amounted to (169,000×0.3=) 50,700 tons. The forests in the Lublin area, including those around Sobibór, presently contain some 224 m 3 of wood per ha 429 or 197 tons, 430 which means that the 30 workers of the Waldkommando would have had to cut down (57,700÷197=) about 293 ha of forest, corresponding to nearly 3 km 2 or more than a square mile. If we assume that the burnings went on continuously for 12 months from October 1942 through October 1943, then the 30 men of the forest detail would have had to fell and bring in (50,700÷365=) ca. 139 tons of lumber every day – an impossible task. With traditional tools (axes, saws, billhooks), 6 lumberjacks working from dawn to dusk needed 15 days to fell, saw, and split 50 tons of wood. 431 This translates to (50÷15÷6 =) 0.55 tons of wood per man-day, which means that the 30 detainees of the forest detail would have been able to handle (0.55×30=) 16.5 tons of wood per day, but the daily requirements (to cremate the total number of victims within 12 months, up to October 1943) were 139 tons and would have taken more than 8 days to provide. A full (50,700÷16.5=) 3,072 working days, or 8 years and 5 months, would have been needed to fell and prepare the 50,700 tons of fresh wood needed to cremate 169,000 corpses! This wood would also have had to be moved into the camp, an operation which would have required 28 truckload movements per day over 365 days. But there is no testimony mentioning this enormous load. As against this, the aerial photographs of the Sobibór region, taken on 11 July 1940 and 30 May 1944, 432 do not show any apparent reduction in the wooded area around the camp – even indicating an increase in the 428 Ibid., p. 138 (facsimile of the document). 429 Przyroda, www.wios.lublin.pl/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=232. 430 The weight of freshly cut red pine is 880 kg per cubic meter. “Dizionario forestale,” www regione fvg.it/rafvg/export/sites/default/RAFVG/AT9/ARG5/allegati/Dizionario_f orestale_link.pdf 431 “I Carbonai di Cappadocia,” www.aequa.org/public/documenti/AOnLine/CarbonaiCappadocia.DOC. 432 John C. Ball, Air Photo Evidence. Ball Resource Services Limited, Delta, B.C., Canada, 1992, pp. 99-101; “Mapping Sobibór,” www.deathcamps.org/sobibor/maps html.
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