Report from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Jahrling to SS-Brigadefuehrer (major-general) Kammler, concerning the capacity of the Auschwitz-Birkenau furnaces. 52 muffles are listed in the five crematoriums, with their capacity for 24 working hours estimated at 4,756 corpses. Source: Auschwitz Museum. Reproduced in "Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers", J.C Pressac, the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, NY, 1989, page 247. Back to main cremation and refutation of "Holocaust revisionism" page.
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