Production of the M1 rifle during the World War II era was the high point of weapons production at Springfield Armory. At no time prior to, or following, this period, had the Armory achieved this level of production. In total, Springfield produced 3,526,922 M1 rifles from 1932 through 1945. program for developing increased production capacity had been adopted in 1934, and by January of 1940 the Armory was producing 100 rifles per day. By January 1942 this number had risen to 1,103 per day. Production peaked in January 1944 with 122,001 M1s produced that month.
A crematorium is a facility that houses a cremator having a cremation chamber or retort. In this chamber, the body of a deceased incinerated and hence, reduced to skeletal remains and bone fragments. Cremation chambers are usually lined with heat-resistant refractory bricks. These bricks should be replaced every five years.
Crematorium I operated [at Auschwitz ] from August 15, 1940 until July 1943. According to calculations by the German authorities, 340 corpses could be burned every 24 hours after the installation of the three furnaces.The largest room in this building was designated as a morgue. It was adapted as the first provisional gas chamber in the autumn of 1941.t times, the bodies of the people who had been murdered were also burned on pyres in pits located near Crematorium V and the so-called bunkers. The apparatus of mass murder in this building functioned, with interruptions, from April 1943 until January 1945.