Where in Torah or Talmud is it that dead Nazis get the same treatment as dead Jews?
Somehow I really, really don't think that the dead Canaanite, Midianite, Jebusite, and Philistine Nazis received proper burials. 
when did i talk about a proper burial? mass graves sounds more like it...but burning their bodies goes against Torah. We were made in Gd's image..therefore the dead corpse shoudl be respected.
So you believe every person in our culture who is cremated can't enter heaven, or what?
The only thing that I understand from a Jewish perspective is that the human body was made in Gd's image and shoudl be respected. So let's just say for example a regular person dies, you are not supposed to stare at it or talk about it in front of it. The reason why is that if a person were living it wouldnt' be nice to do those things and here you are staring a dead body and it can't stare back at you. when a Jew first dies, he needs to be cleansed in a bath called a mikva. The person who is doing the cleansing doesn't just dunk the body. He/she asks for permission, "Can I move your hand?, Can I dunk your head?" and etc. because wiht a living person you just forcefully do somethign to them, You ask for permission.
In jewish law, the body shoudl be buried as soon as possible..like the next day. The only exception is Shabbat. So what if that were the situation? Well, a dead person shoudl not be left alone, since it is written that man should not be alone. Therefore, a person is designated to be wtih the body in the coffin and pslams are read to it.
So it's rather fascinating the kind of respect Judaism even puts for a dead person...so wonderful and beautiful that we treat living and dead things with that type of dignity.
I know that in Christianity it's different. I can't impose a Jewish point of view on Christians because it's a totally different theology and you need to follow your rules the way your church teaches you to do it.
As far as creamation...i dont' know if one goes to hell or heaven for doing it or not doing it. Popular jewish belief is that at the time of the messiah, the dead bodies will be resurrected..but guess what? if they are creamated,well, that just sucks..you don't get resurrected...personally, I'm not sure if that is right or wrong..dont' know the whole rabbinical arguement.
however, I do know that according to Jewish law, one is not supposed to get creamated. Some rabbis argue that one shoudl not donate body parts for future transplants...I personally disagree wtih them..because if you donate a body part to save another one's life which will in essence save billions of lives (that person you saved will save his offspring and their offspring)...and that's a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge mitzva if you can in your death save that many lives..HUUUUUUUUUGE!
come to think of it, it woudl make a good ask JTF question for Chaim on whether when he dies he would ever donate any of his organs to save future Jewish and righteous gentile lives...
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