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title: Holocaust Denial on Trial, Myth/Fact Sheets: The German Nazis would have used special alloy rails for the incineration pyres
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title: Holocaust Denial on Trial
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CLAIM: The heat from the incineration fires would have melted the railroad rails used to construct the grills.

RESPONSE: Railroad rails are hardened during manufacturing to withstand the weight of heavily-loaded trains in all types of weather, and the fact that they occasionally melted during incineration supports accounts of the gruesome efficiency of the grills built by the Germans.

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Trial transcripts, expert witness documents and other material used in Irving vs. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt have been encoded in XML using the TEI Guidelines, and made available for scholarly research and educational purposes.

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