The Second World War

[wickedtart]

I am researching the war and am wondering how all the ashes from the gassed people were removed and where did they put this.  Sorry it is a morbid question for those that had relatives there.

[Romeo]

The Nazis dumped the ashes in ponds and ditches.  These have since been filled over, the ashes still under them, forming a respectful grave or site of rememberance.

[mystress]

There were NO ashes afterwards only bodies.They were gassed with gas,not gas flames! The bodies were buried (dumped) in large pit graves and unmarked.

[shaneystar]

They had crematoria at Auschwitz (Birkenau) and Dachau. Bodies were burned in these ovens.
When the chimneys of the crematoria were blown up by the retreating Nazis they were so filled with ashes that they coated the fields for miles around.
A look round Auschwitz is a sobering experience. We have distant relatives who were victims of the holocaust.

[Scylax]

The ashes of cremated bodies at eg. Birkenau, Sobibor, etc.were dumped into ditches, ponds, rivers, or just dug into the earth.

The grey, dusty soil at the Sobibor site is evidence of this practice to this day..

At other sites eg. Belzec, whole corpses were buried in mass trenches ; later they were disinterred, burned, and the ashes re-buried on site, lest the Allies discover the evidence of these 'Crimes against Humanity'.