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5. RESULTS OF THE EXTERMINATION PROGRAM
The huge scale of the Jewish eliminations is also reflected
in the bookkeeping and statistics of the Germans themselves.
The 16 December 1941 entry in the diary of Hans Frank
contains these figures:
"The Jews for us also represent extraordinarily
malignant gluttons.
"We have now approximately 2,500,000 of them in General
Government -- perhaps with the Jewish mixtures, and
everything that goes with it, 3,500,000 Jews." (2233-D-PS)
On 25 January 1944, three years and one month later, Frank
wrote in his diary these words:
"At the present time we still have in the General
Government perhaps 100,000 Jews." (2233-F-PS)
Thus, in this period of three years, according to the
records of the then Governor General of Occupied Poland,
between 2,400,000 and 3,400,000 Jews had been eliminated.
The total number of Jews who died by Nazi hands can never be
definitely ascertained. It is known, however, that 4 million
Jews died in concentration camps, and that 2 million Jews
were killed by the State Police in the East, making a total
of 6 million murdered Jews. The source of these figures is
Adolph Eichmann, Chief of the Jewish Section of the Gestapo.
The figures are contained in an affidavit made by Dr.
Wilhelm Hoettl, Deputy Group Leader of the Foreign Section
of the Security Section, AMT VI, of the RSHA. Hoettl, in his
affidavit, states as follows:
"Approximately 4 million Jews had been killed in the
various concentration camps, while an additional 2
million met death in other ways, the major part of
which were shot by operational squads of the Security
Police during the campaign against Russia." (2738-PS)
Hoettl describes the source of his information as follows:
"According to my knowledge, Eichmann was at that time
the leader of the Jewish Section of the Gestapo, and in
addition to that he had been ordered by Himmler to get
a hold of the Jews in all the European countries and to
transport them to Germany. Eichmann was then very much
impressed with the fact that Rumania had withdrawn from
the war in those days. Moreover, he had come to me to
get information about the military situation which I
received daily from the Hungarian Ministry of War and
from the Commander of the Waffen-SS in Hungary. He
expressed his conviction that Germany had now lost the
war and that he personally had no
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further chance. He knew that he would be considered one
of the main war criminals by the United Nations, since
he had millions of Jewish lives on his conscience. I
asked him how many that was, to which he answered that
although the number was a great Reich secret, he would
tell me since I, as a historian, would be interested,
and that he would probably not return anyhow from his
command in Rumania. He had, shortly before that, made a
report to Himmler, as the latter wanted to know the
exact number of Jews who had been killed." ( 2738-PS)
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I Chapter XII
The Persecution of the Jews
(Part 13 of 14)