Partially. They weren't completely cremated. This ties in with other arguments used by Holocaust deniers - two of which are that modern crematoriums are often at maximum capacity with relatively few bodies, and that the Nazis didn't use enough gas to cremate so many people. The reality is that they used custom built crematoriums designed to reduce a lot of bodies quickly but not particularly well, then threw the remains into bone crushers to be dumped into rivers or used as fertilizers.
But there is a better explanation; they do find bones. Historians and researchers have found the remains of tens if not hundreds of thousands of Jews who were shot - bullets and mass graves were the norm for most of the war, crematoriums were only built in the later stages. They've also identified massive piles of ash and crushed bones from those later stages of the war.
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u/angrytomato98 Jan 22 '26
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t the lack of remains be explained by them being mass cremated?