Scroll down for text Report from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Bischoff 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: State Archive. Reproduced in "The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial", Robert Jan Van Pelt, Indiana University Press, 2002, p. 343. For a more thorough discussion of the cremation issue, please see the cremation page .
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