SEDAN HOAX

INTRO:
I am indebted to my good friend and esteemed colleague, Mr. Ken Oi Veh of the Nizkopropaghic Lie and Spy Site, for the following item of deliciousness, posted simultaneously on alt.rev. and alt.history by the illustrious Mr. Oi Vey himself. .
It deserves to be read in full prior to proceeding with my comments.
Carlos W. Porter
Nizkoprophagic Archive/File: people/e/erichsen.hugo/cremation-of-the-dead Last-Modified: 1998/05/25

COMMENT: Belgium was neutral during the Franco-Prussian War, so what the hell does the "Belgian government" have to do with it? All the towns mentioned are in France. Belgium had nothing to do with the war.]

dispatched Colonel Créteur to examine into the grievances, and, if possible, remove them. One's hair stands on end when one reads the report of the colonel on the condition of the Sedan battle-field. The only way to remedy the evil was to destroy the dangerous cadavers by cremation, which was a difficult task, under the circumstances, but which was nevertheless accomplished by the ingenious Créteur. The colonel's report is full of horrible facts. [????]
The bodies of German soldiers [!!!!] in a trench at Laid-Trou were covered so little by earth that carnivorous animals had already devoured part of the hands and faces. Rain-water

[COMMENT: What about the Saxons, Prussians, Württemburgers, etc. who also made up the German army?]

[COMMENT: The Nizkoprophagists have misspelled the names of these two French villages, Balan and Bazeilles, 2 or 3 miles southeast of Sedan. There is a museum at Bazeilles. - C.P]

grave. Relics of the dead protruded from the ground. The bodies were covered only by a thin layer of earth, in which corn flourished luxuriantly

Wild bears, foxes, and dogs, relishing the human flesh, helped to scratch away the soil over the remains, as did the numerous crows upon the pit in which the horses had been buried. Dogs, having once feasted on this fare, would not eat anything else.

Créteur at first could not obtain men to carry out his plans, as every one who attempted to open the trenches contracted phlyctaena, an eruption of the skin. Finally, by promising good pay, he enlisted 27 workmen, whom he endeavored to protect by saturating their clothing and moistening the graves with a solution of carbolic acid. But this only intensified the phlyctaena. He then determined to cover the graves with a layer of chloride of lime, and to pour diluted muriatic acid upon them subsequently. By this means he succeeded in laying bare the topmost layer of the corpses.

He then had large quantities of coal tar poured into the pit, which trickled down among the bodies to the bottom

[COMMENT: How the hell could it penetrate to the bottom if only the top layer was uncovered, i.e., the rest of the pit was still full of mud, dirt, etc. and the bodies were totally covered???]

[COMMENT: i.e., saturating buried bodes with coal tar -- how is that possible?].

and finally had bundles of hay, previously saturated with kerosene, thrown burning into the pit.

[COMMENT: OK, you set fire to the bodies on top; but what about the bodies on the bottom?]

Créteur declares that from 200 to 300 bodies were consumed within 50 to 60 minutes

[COMMENT: About the same time as the most modern crematory ovens, but let's not argue about it.]

The smoke, impregnated with the smell of the carbolic acid that was formed by the combination of the chloride of lime and coal tar, was not offensive

[COMMENT: Actually, this is true of cremations generally, once the initial moisture has been destroyed]

About one-fourth of all the contents remained in the pits, consisting of calcined bones and a dry mass [!!!].

[COMMENT: in other words, they didn't burn!!!] These were again covered with chloride of lime, and then the trenches were closed.

[COMMENT: Does this mean they disappeared without a trace? Apparently not, since "one fourth of all the contents remained in the pits, consisting of calcined bones and a dry mass". So what did they do with the 100 to 200 tons of bone fragments, teeth, and human "and equine" ashes, which are not combustible?]

The battle of Sedan, fought on 1 September 1870, was a German victory, one of the most decisive military victories of the 19th century. The German army consisted of Bavarian, Saxon, Württemburgish, and Prussian regiments, presumably among others. How many Bavarians could there have possibly been in these mass graves?
The French lost a total of 3,000 men killed at Sedan (the oft-quoted figure of "17,000 French casualites" includes wounded), and the Germans obviously far fewer, so where the hell did the "45,000 bodies" come from? The French surrendered unconditionally at the end of the day, with 82,000 prisoners. Obviously, the first thing the Germans would do after the battle is bury the dead -- the dead of both sides -- giving them a decent burial, and mark the graves. They certainly had enough manpower at their disposal (the 82,000 French prisoners aforesaid) to dig as many graves as they wanted. Would any victorious army in the world allow a defeated enemy to treat their fallen heroes in this degrading, disgusting, and revolting manner?
Since the total killed on both sides totaled no where near 45,000, how many of the dead were simply horses? Not that it matters.
How did the French count the bodies if they didn't dig them up first?
What did they do with the 100 to 200 tons of bone fragments, etc.? [I know I asked this question earlier, but if the Nizkorophagists can repeat themselves, so can I]
According to this account, the French -- even though they lost the battle (and the war) -- were in complete control of the battlefield afterwards, just as if they had won, and were allowed to treat the fallen Bavarians in any disgusting and revolting manner they liked. How likely is that?
What did the French do with their own dead -- dead French -- presumably in mass graves as well, of whom there would have been many, many more?
The text certainly doesn't imply that 45,000 bodies of horses and men (or giraffes and elephants, too, for all I know) disappeared without a trace -- no bones, no ashes, no teeth, no nothing, like the 4,000,000 kikes, gypsies, faggots and communists at Auschwitz and elsewhere.
That being the case, do you suppose my esteemed colleague Mr. Ken Oi Vey could provide us with a precise map (x marks the spot) where we could dig for all this evidence at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, etc. etc. -- tens of thousands of tons of it -- so as to prove the truth of these revolting allegations when made against the Germans?

CONCLUSION: One of the best pieces of advice I ever heard -- attributed to a professional gambler -- is as follows:

I have seen this tale of mass cremations at Sedan quoted before, by revisionists, and I do not believe it. I do believe, of course, that cremation in ditches is utterly impossible, and this tale certainly does not prove the contrary. The only explanation I can think of as the possible origins of this horror story, is that:

somebody found a few bodies years after the war, and indeed attempted to dispose of them in this manner described, but exaggerated the numbers (easily done, since they were never dug up), or
the French made up this horror story after the war to revenge themselves on the Germans, at whose hands they had suffered a humiliating and devastating defeat (losing 400,000 prisoners in 6 weeks, total surrender followed by civil war in France, the Paris Commune, the Treaty of Frankfurt (the proceeds of which were used by Jews for speculative purposes in Germany, resulting in a disastrous financial crash, etc., etc.).

The more things change, the more they are the same. A repeat performance by Germany in 1914 proved a failure, but was greeted by an ovation in 1940.

Desecration of the dead, like rape, is a means of psychological revenge (of course, it is most commonly alleged by Jews to encourage passage of anti-"Hate" laws). I cannot think of any reason why the Germans would make this story up in 1883 to humiliate the French, although it certainly does make the French look like monsters. Henry Ford said, "history is bunk".

I recall reading somewhere (source available upon request) that, after Custer's Last Stand, the Indians stripped Custer's troops (272 or 212 soldiers, depending on your source), and burned them. How the hell could they do that? There are practically no trees in that part of the world. Burning 272 bodies would be a hell of lot of work. Why the hell would the Indians bother to do that? I cannot refrain from remarking that cremation times have been known from earliest antiquity.

For example, in the last book of the Iliad, the cremation of Hector took 22 hours by my calculation, and it took days, maybe a week, just to collect the wood! Of course, the body must have stunk pretty bad by that time -- maybe they put "Trojans" on their noses for "safer breathing".

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