IRVING: You will remember, Professor, will you not, that I asked you the length that the flame has to travel from the furnace to the mouth of the chimney?
VAN PELT: Yes.
IRVING: We reached a figure of 90 feet or so, did we not?
VAN PELT: Yes.
IRVING: Have you ever seen flames that are 90 feet long?
VAN PELT: No.
IRVING: Will you take it from me that any furnace engineer would say that you never get flames from a chimney that is as long as that, or route that is as long as that?
VAN PELT: I am happy to accept what your engineer says. I am happy also to accept what another engineer has said. I have not consulted engineers on this.
IRVING: Regardless of what is being burned, even if it was trash from the incinerator or whatever they would not have flames emerging from the mouth of the chimney. Will you also accept that the Germans, being very good design engineers, have also made adequate provision to ensure that no smoke would have come from the chimney either?
VAN PELT: No smoke?
IRVING: No smoke would come from the chimney. That is the purpose of the design of chimney roof.
VAN PELT: Okay, it may be so or it may be not so, I cannot comment
IRVING: Regardless, if you concentrate just on the flames will you agree that Olère in one of his drawings which you described as being very good of the outside of the crematorium shows flames and smoke luridly belching from the -- not just trickling out --
JUSTICE GRAY: Well, do not bother, it does.
IRVING: I am sure you know which picture I am referring to.
VAN PELT: -- yes, it is tab No. 3.
JUSTICE GRAY: And it either is or is not intended to be an accurate reproduction of what actually was visible.
IRVING: If you have read Pressac, Professor, do you remember the passage where Olère states that the SS turned bodies into sausages?
VAN PELT: I do not remember that, I am sorry.
Ibid., pp. 104-105.
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