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AN EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL FIT INTO 25 SQUARE METERS
I had first read about Kurt Gerstein several years ago, and was soon confronted with his "700-800 people in 25 m2" statement. In the revisionist literature I was reading, it was pointed out that this is equivalent to 28-32 people per square meter. Since a meter is roughly the same as a yard, I could easily visualize this, and I knew that 28 people in a square yard was totally impossible. I immediately came to the conclusion that Gerstein was a lunatic, and was of not much value as an "eyewitness to the Holocaust".
One day in December of 1990, I was reading The 'Confessions' of Kurt Gerstein, by Henri Roques. (I had bought a copy as soon as it was
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released, and had read over it several times since then.) While I was reading one of the six manuscripts of Gerstein contained in the above book, a phrase of Gerstein caught my attention: "more than half are children" (present in Manuscripts T5 and T6)23 It did not occur to me at that time that Gerstein's ratio could be possible, but it piqued my curiosity enough for me to assemble my five children and tell them to take off their clothes (except for underwear). I then went into one of my children's bedrooms and pushed two pieces of furniture closer together. Because Gerstein mentioned babies at the breast, I gave one of my children a large baby doll to hold. I found (by carefully positioning them) that I could get all five kids and the baby doll to fit in a square measuring 16 inches by 16 inches. My two-year-old squatted on the floor (and several toes!), while all the others could stand, the baby doll being held in between and above. Fitting them was easy, and no one was "squashed". Once I figured that 16" X 16" seemed to be the smallest area possible, I said that I was done, pushed the furniture back, and went downstairs to do some figuring.
I calculated the square inches in a 5 meter by 5 meter room (approx. 39" X 39" X 5 X 5): 38,025 square inches. By dividing this by the area of my test space (16 X 16 = 256 square inches), I obtained the number 148.5, which I multiplied by six (the number of children in my experiment). According to my calculations, then, 891.21 children could have fit into Gerstein's gas chamber! I was shocked, having no idea beforehand of the mathematical outcome.
On December 29, I repeated the experiment, this time using a wooden frame a friend built, and this time I took pictures. In January, I carried my research further by renting three dummies from an area department store. Though my two year old refused to participate (she was scared of the dummies), I was able to get all three dummies, four of my children, and a large baby doll, into a space measuring 22 inches by 22 inches. From these statistics, I calculated that well over 600 people could fit into a 25 square meter room, at a ratio of 25.6 people per square meter! This experiment was hampered by the fact that I couldn't position the dummies so as to minimize space, the dummies being stiff with non-moving appendages.
For my last experiment (February 8, 1991), I was able to recruit three adults, and (as usual) my children. The adults were two males (27 years, 34 years), and one woman in her seventies; the men asked only that I block out their faces in the photographs and not list their names in my report. I had my woodworking friend construct a plywood box with a floor space of 21 inches by 21 inches, one glass side, one open side, and an open top. The inner dimensions of 21" X 21" were necessary to hit slightly above 700 people per 25 m2 room (28/m2), provided that I could get eight people into the box. All people in this experiment kept their clothes on and were measured (height, waist, shoulders) and weighed, except for the baby doll, whose weight was "estimated". Weights were converted to kilograms in order to compare the average to Gerstein's statement in Manuscript T6: "I make an estimate: average weight at the most 35 kg".
By carefully positioning the eight people, all eight were able to fit easily into the box. All were able to breathe just fine, and I continually
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asked how everyone was feeling. Two children sat down (Susanna, age 6, and Tabitha, age 2), one hunched over (Tobias, age 4), while all three adults and my eight-year-old son Nathanael stood. Adult male T.J. held the large baby doll. We took photographs from various angles (including the open top), and then took pictures as we removed various people. These photos were necessary because when all eight persons were in the box, the positions of some people were almost impossible to see. In fact, Susanna was so hard to see that we had to tell her to stick her hand out to show where she was. Evelyn Nagy (the adult female) was visible only by looking into the top of the box, while Tabitha was visible only from the right (glass) side.
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After the photographs were taken, I averaged out the weights of the eight subjects. Amazingly, the average was 33.25 kgs. (Gerstein estimated the average of the persons in the gas chamber at 35 kgs "at the most".)
All of the data we recorded are listed in the Appendix of this article.
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CONCLUDING STATEMENT
All of the seven people in my experiment were healthy and well nourished. The Jews of eastern Poland (and specifically, Lvov/Lemberg, which is where the Jews of Gerstein's account are said to have come from) were, in August of 1942, ill-fed and even starving.24
In addition to the above, according to ethnological studies done by Dr. Otto Von Verschuer, the Jews of Poland were about three inches shorter than the average German.25 This comparative smallness is confirmed by other authorities, notably John R. Baker and Lothrop Stoddard.26 Since Jews are smaller, this would probably reduce their cubic volume by approximately 5%, when compared to non-Jews of European descent, the ethnic background of all the people in my experiment.
While the people in my final experiment were clothed, the people described in Gerstein's account were stark naked. Another point to consider is this: all of the people in the 21" X 21" box were not compressed or pushed together, while the people described by Gerstein were whipped and physically pushed into the chamber. Though it is possible that hysteria could actually disrupt "smooth fitting" of people into a 25 square meter room, yet in my opinion, brute force would overcompensate for this.
Keeping in mind all of the above, as well as the fact that Gerstein's lower ratio of 28 people/m2 was reached in the final experiment conducted by myself and my friends, we may conclude that the number of persons, the dimensions of the chambers, and even the weight estimates of Kurt Gerstein are well within the realm of the possible, and are believable. Seven hundred and fifty starving Jews, over half of them children, could fit into a 5 meter by 5 meter room, 1.9 meters tall.
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