Archive/File: camps/auschwitz/victims numbers.killed 4.0 Compiling Estimates of the Numbers Exterminated When the extermination camps failed to achieve their objective, the total extermination of European Jewry, by the end of 1942, Heinrich Himmler commissioned a statistical report in order to determine what 'progress' had been made. In January of 1943, Dr. Richard Korherr, a noted statistician who was outside SS circles, working with Adolf Eichmann and camp commanders, began compiling reports and figures to present to Himmler. As Breitman relates, Korherr's job was complicated by the fact that, even in a report designed for Himmler, he was not supposed to spell out the facts in black and white. It was easier to state how many Jews were still alive than what had happened to the others. To be sure, Korherr could state that through various means the Jewish population in the Reich and the Government General had diminished by 3.1 million between 1933 and 1942. In spite of his generous use of the term "evacuation," however, which Himmler seconded, to mislead those who would read the document in later years, Himmler had to correct Korherr's wording in one place. Where Korherr had written of the "special treatment" of the Jews, Himmler had insisted on either the "transportation of the Jews from the Eastern provinces to the Russian East" or the "sifting of the Jews through the camps." These were among the officially approved terms to camouflage the realities of the Final Solution. (Korherr's reports in NA RG 238, NO-5193 and 5194, Himmler's correction of wording in Brandt to Korherr, 20 April 1943. NA RG 238, NO-5196. Raul Hillberg, The Destruction of the European Jews {Chicago, 1961}, 2nd expanded ed., 3 vols. {New York, 1985},I, 322-23, reviews the whole range of Nazi terms that veiled the realities.) (Breitman, 242) Note that Himmler was successful in his attempts to camouflage reality to the degree that present-day Holocaust denial insists that Jews were simply "relocated to the East," and not exterminated. Eichmann's interrogation regarding the total number of victims supports Fleming's figure of about five million killed (Request eichmann eichmann.005), while figures compiled by Yehuda Bauer, of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, are somewhat higher. Bauer's figures are in the right-most column: German Reich (boundaries of 1938) 130,000 125,000 Austria 58,000 65,000 Belgium 26,000 Belgium & Luxembourg 24,700 Bulgaria 7,000 Czechoslovakia (boundaries of 1938) 245,000 277,000 France 64,000 83,000 Greece 58,000 65,000 Hungary & Carpatho-Ukraine 300,000 402,000* Italy 8,000 7,500* Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia 200,000 Luxembourg 3,000 Netherlands 101,800 106,000 Norway 677 760 Poland (boundaries of 1939) 2,700,000 Polish-Soviet area 4,565,000 Romania (boundaries prior to 1940) 220,000 40,000 USSR (boundaries prior to 1939) 800,000 Yugoslavia 54,000 60,000* ----------------- 4,975,477 5,820,960 * May be underestimated 4.1 How many people died at Auschwitz? Foner's Spotlight article makes the following assertions regarding the number of people killed at the camp: Like most Americans, since his youth Cole had been instructed in the "irrefutable fact" that homicidal gassings had taken place at Auschwitz. The number of those so executed - also declared irrefutable - was 4.1 million. Then came the Leuchter Report in 1988. This was followed by a "re-evaluation" of the total deaths at Auschwitz (down to 1.1 million). As a budding historian - and a Jew - Cole was intrigued. Previous to 1992, anyone who publicly doubted the 4.1 million "gassing" deaths at Auschwitz was labeled an anti-Semite, neo-nazi skinhead (at the very least). Quietly, because of revisionist findings, the official figure was lowered to 1.1 million. No mention of that missing 3 million. Foner's assertions are simply not true; although it is correct to note that the Polish government did claim that four million people were exterminated at Auschwitz, historians (Feig, Reitlinger, Hilberg, et al.) have never supported that figure. Consider the estimates provided by Buszko at the end of his article on Auschwitz, which appeared in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust: Of the 405,000 registered prisoners, 65,000 survived Of the 16,000 Soviet POW's, 96 survived Various estimates suggest 1.6 million were murdered Buszko's article, and the above estimates, appeared in the 1990 edition of the Encyclopedia, which clearly puts the lie to Foner's comment that "anyone who publicly doubted the 4.1 million ..." figure "previous to 1992..." was "...labeled an anti-Semite..." Buszko is not only a Jewish historian, but Polish as well. Feig also provides evidence of the false nature of Foner's comment when she notes that `Ho"ss testified that the Tesch directors could not help but know of the use for their product because they sold him enough to annihilate two million people.' Feig's book was published in 1981. According to Snyder, Adolf Eichmann reported to Himmler, in 1944, that four million had been killed in the camps, and another million had been shot or killed by mobile units. (Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. 1989) Eichmann's report, which referenced _all_ the camps (most of which were in Poland), may have been the source of the Polish government's figures. (Snyder is a Professor of History at the City College and the City University of New York.) During the war crimes trials, Ho"ss was was asked if it was true that he had no exact numbers because he had been forbidden to compile them, and he agreed. He also agreed that Adolf Eichmann had told him that that more than two million people had been exterminated there. (von Lang, 120) The Institut Fuer Zeitgeschicthe, Munich, provided the following capsulated paragraph about Auschwitz a March, 1992, letter of inquiry. (Request auschwitz IFZ.report) The extermination camp in Birkenau, established in the second half of 1941, was joined to the concentration camp Auschwitz, existing since May 1940. From January 1942 on in five gas chambers and from the end of June 1943 in four additional large gassing-rooms gassings with Zyklon B have been undertaken. Up until November 1944 more than one million Jews and at least 4000 gypsies have been murdered by gas. (IFZ) While it is admittedly difficult to compile exact figures, since the Nazis did not maintain registration records for those who were to be exterminated immediately upon arrival at Auschwitz, it seems accurate to assert that the number of Jews killed fell somewhere between one and one-point-six million. Jews were not the only victims of the Auschwitz killing machine - estimates that from 200,000 (Gilbert, 22, Kendrick, 184) to 500,000 (Bubenickova, 190, Yoors, 34) Gypsies were ultimately destroyed are noted by Laska. Himmler signed the decree sending all of them to Auschwitz in 1942. In addition, an unknown number of homosexuals were sent to Auschwitz and executed. The Leuchter Report, which Foner alludes to extensively in his Spotlight article, has been thoroughly refuted. For detailed information about the report, see the Leuchter FAQ, published regularly in this newsgroup. Article 85016 of alt.revisionism: Path: nizkor.almanac.bc.ca!news.island.net!vertex.tor.hookup.net!thor.atcon.com!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!206.20.179.41 From: Annie AlpertNewsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Nazi math? WAS Re: Jewish math: 6 million minus 2.5 million= 6million, of course! Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:11:53 -0500 Organization: IDT Lines: 171 Message-ID: <32AD6FA9.58E6@ccnis.net> References: <01bbe62c$5b093460$4ed0d6cc@tstedham.dbtech.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.20.179.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Tbone wrote: > > I was taught in school that 6 million jews were murdered by the Nazi's in > the "holocaust". That has been the party line since WWII. We've heard it > constantly, and it's illegal to question it in Canada, Germany, Israel, > France, and a few other countries. (Just ask Irving, Zundel, Leuchter, > etc.) > > But, in 1990 or so, the Auschwitz museum in Poland removed the plaque that > said 4 million jews had been killed there. (You know, the plaque the Pope > prayed over, commemorating the 4 million jews, etc...) The Auschwitz State > Museum (whatever its official name is) has OFFICIALLY LOWERED the Auschwitz > death toll to "around 1.5 million", a reduction of approx. 2.5 million. > Some Soviet papers documented only 72,000 jewish deaths there... > > So, what is the official jewish count? Still 6 million, of course!!! How > can the former total of 6 million lose 2.5 million, and still be 6 million? > Maybe that's a special kind of math only taught to jews, I don't know. To > white people, that equals a max of 3.5 million, which the jews can't allow > because it would screw up their entire holy-hoax scam. > > Remember, the Katyn Massacre? 13,000+ Polish officers murdered. We were > told for 45 years that the Germans did it. Then the Soviets said, "Nope, we > did it." With that it mind, isn't it reasonable to assume that perhaps the > jew count is suspect, at best, and deliberately fraudulent at worst? > > Hail the Order! Since you obviously haven't found the time to do much research on the subject--being so busy hailing the order and all--here is some information that may help you understand the death counts: To begin with, Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer charged by Hitler with the destruction of millions of Jews, reported to Himmler in August 1944 that, although the death camps kept no exact statistics, 4 million Jews had died in them and that 2 million more had been shot or killed by mobile units (Einsatzkommandos). Now, let's add this up...4 million + 2 million = 6 million. Coincidence? Historians determined that the number of Jews killed is very close the number that the Germans themselves estimated. For a good accounting of the numbers killed, refer to appendix III of Raul Hilberg's "The Destruction of the European Jews" (available through most public and University library systems). NOTE: these figures by Hilberg were derived through painstaking research--not by reading a plaque. STATISTICAL RECAPITULATION OF JEWISH DEAD (by operation) Area of mobile killing operations: 1,400,000 tabulated dead (900,000) untabulated dead (500,000)= unreported by Einsatzgruppen (150,000?) Higher SS and police leaders and BdS GG (100,000) Army killings, PW killings and operations by anti-partisan units (100,000) Ghetto dead (100,000) death of fleeing Jews (50,000?) Area of deportations: 3,700,000 Killed in camps (including Transnistria) (3,000,000) ghetto and aggravated deaths (700,000) TOTAL >5,100,000 (Recent developments in the former USSR have uncovered more data, which, I have heard, indicates that these figures are under-calculated by 250,000-500,000.) Here is another look at the numbers: Appendix Table B2 from Raul Hilberg's "Destruction of European Jewry" Vol III, p1220: DEATHS BY COUNTRY Poland up to 3,000,000 USSR over 700,000 Romania 270,000 Czechoslovakia 260,000 Hungary over 180,000 Lithuania up to 130,000 Germany over 120,000 Netherlands over 100,000 France 75,000 Latvia 70,000 Yugoslavia 60,000 Greece 60,000 Austria over 50,000 Belgium 24,000 Italy (including Rhodes) 9,000 Estonia 2,000 Norway under 1,000 Luxemborg under 1,000 Danzig under 1,000 ____________________________ Total 5,100,000 NOTE: Borders refer to 1937. Converts to Christianity are included and refugees are counted with the countries from which they were deported Table B3 DEATHS BY YEAR 1933-1940 under 100,000 1941 1,100,000 1942 2,700,000 1943 500,000 1944 600,000 1945 100,000 ______________ Total 5,100,000 Note Rounded to nearest 100,000 Now if you are just looking at Auschwitz, here are the figures from the book "Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers" by Jean-Claude Pressac. From the introduction by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld: "TABLE SUMMARIZING THE FINDINGS OF GEORGES WELLER'S RESEARCH: Number of deaths at Auschwitz Category Total # total total deportees dead survivors Jews 1,433,405 1,352,980 (94.4%) 80,425 (5.6%) "Poles" + EH 142,940 83,010 (58.1) 59,930 (40.9) Gypsies 21,665 20,255 (93.5) 1,410 (6.5) Russians 11,780 11,685 (99.2) 96 (0.8) Total 1,613,455 1,471,595 (92.1) 141,860 (8.8) (Note: EH = 'Erziehungshaftlinge'--prisoners interned for reeducation) Weller further breaks down the deaths: Category NUMBER OF DEAD in gas chambers other causes Jews 1,323,000 (92.3%) 29,980 (2.3%) "Poles" + EH 3,665 ( 2.5) 83,010 (56.6) Gypsies 6,430 (29.6) 13,825 (63.8) Russians 1,605 (13.6) 10,080 ( 8.5) Total 1,334,700 (82.7 %) 136,895 (8.5%) Klarsfeld notes: "It should be pointed out that the great historian estimates the number of Jews who entered Auschwitz-Birkinau at between 1,050,000 and 1,100,000 (Le Nouvel Observateur" 3rd July 1982)" [Since Hilberg's estimates in 1983, however, the fall of the Soviet Union has made additional documents available that indicate these figures are underestimated by at least 250,000...] From these figures we see that, while fewer gypsies and Russians were gassed, they did poorly in the camps; that a greater proportion of Jews were gassed than non-Jews and that Poles survived best of all--probably because of their non-Jewish status. This supports eyewitness accounts that indicate that Poles were given preferred status in the camps. -- Nizkor (USA) - An Electronic Holocaust Educational Resource Nizkor Web: http://www.nizkor.org/ Anonymous ftp: http://ftp.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi? European mirror: http://www1.de.nizkor.org/~nizkor/ And be sure to check out: http://www1.us.nizkor.org/~fatbroad
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