The Incredible Shrinking Holocaust
The Auschwitz Fraud >From 9,000,000 Dead Jews To 38,031
And the grand finale -- The number of alleged Auschwitz deaths.
9,000,000 Cited by the French documentary, Night and Fog, which has
been shown to millions of school students worldwide.
8,000,000 The French War Crime Research Office, Doc. 31, 1945.
7,000,000 Also cited by the French War Crime Research Office.
6,000,000 Cited in the book "Auschwitz Doctor" by Miklos Nyiszli. It
has since been proven that this book is a fraud and the "doctor" was
never even at Auschwitz, even though the book is often cited by
historians.
5,000,000 to 5,500,000 Cited in 1945 at the trial of Auschwitz
commander Rudolf Hoess, based on his "confession" which was written
in English, a language he never spoke.
5,000,000 Cited on April 20, 1978 by the French daily, Le Monde. Also
cited on January 23, 1995 by the German daily Die Welt. By September
1, 1989, Le Monde reduced the figure to 1,433,000.
4,500,000 In 1945 this figure was cited by another witness at the
aforementioned Hoess trial.
4,000,000 Cited by a Soviet document of May 6, 1945 and officially
acknowledged by the Nuremberg War Crimes trial. This figure was also
reported in The New York Times on April 18, 1945, although 50 years
later on January 26, 1995 (see below), The New York Times and The
Washington Post slashed the figure to 1,500,000 citing new findings
by the Auschwitz Museum officials. In fact, the figure of 4,000,000
was later repudiated by the Auschwitz museum officials in 1990 (see
below) but the figure of 1,500,000 victims was not formally announced
by Polish President Lech Walesa until five years after the Auschwitz
historians had first announced their discovery.
3,500,000 Cited in the 1991 edition of the Dictionary of the French
Language and by Claude Lanzmann in 1980 in his introduction to Filip
Muller's book, "Three Years in an Auschwitz Gas Chamber."
3,000,000 Cited in a forced confession by Rudolf Hoess, the Auschwitz
commander who said this was the number of those who had died at
Auschwitz prior to Dec. 1, 1943. Later cited in the June 7, 1993
issue of Heritage, the most widely read Jewish newspaper in
California, even though three years previously the authorities at the
Auschwitz museum had scaled down the figure to a minimum of 1,100,000
and a maximum of 1,500,000. (see below).
2,500,000 Cited by a famous "witness to the Holocaust," Rudolf Vrba,
when he testified on July 16, 1981 for the Israeli government's war
crimes trial of former SS official Adolf Eichmann.
2,000,000 Cited by no less than three famous Holocaust historians,
including Leon Poliakov (1951) writing in "Harvest of Hate"; Georges
Wellers, writing in 1973 in "The Yellow Star at the Time of Vichy";
and Lucy Dawidowicz, writing in 1975 in "The War Against the Jews."
2,000,000 to 4,000,000 Cited by Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer in
1982 in his book, "A History of the Holocaust." However, by 1989
Bauer revised his figures and determined that the actual number was
lower: 1,600,000.
1,600,000 This is a 1989 revision by Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer
of his earlier figure in 1982 of 2,000,000 to 4,000,000, Bauer cited
this new figure on September 22, 1989 in The Jerusalem Post, at which
time he wrote' 'The larger figures have been dismissed for years,
except that it hasn't reached the public yet."
1,500,000 In 1995 this was the "official" number of Auschwitz deaths
announced by Polish President Lech Walesa as determined by the
historians at the Auschwitz museum. This number was inscribed on the
monument at the Auschwitz camp at that time, thereby "replacing" the
earlier 4,000,000 figure that had been formally repudiated (and
withdrawn from the monument) five years earlier in 1990. At that
time, on July 17, 1990 The Washington Times reprinted a brief article
from The London Daily Telegraph citing the "new" figure of 1,500,000
that had been determined by the authorities at the Auschwitz museum.
This new figure was reported two years later in a UPI report
published in the New York Post on March 26, 1992. On January 26, 1995
both The Washington Post and The New York Times cited this 1,500,000
figure as the new "official" figure (citing the Auschwitz Museum
authorities).
1,471,595 This is a 1983 figure cited by historian Georges Wellers
who (as noted previously) had determined, writing in 1973, that some
2,000,000 had died. In his later calculation, Wellers decided that of
the 1,471,595 who had died at Auschwitz, 1,352,980 were Jews.
1,433,000 This figure was cited on September 1, 1989 by the French
daily, Le Monde, which earlier, on April 20, 1978, had cited the
figure at 4,000,000.
1,250,000 In 1985, historian Raul Hilberg arrived at this figure in
his book, "The Destruction of the European Jews." According to
Hilberg, of those dead, some 1,000,000 were Jews.
1,100,000 to 1,500,000 Sources for this estimate are historians
Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum (later of the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum) in their 1984 book, "Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death
Camp"; also Dr. Franciszek Piper, the curator of the Auschwitz
Museum, writing a chapter in that book. This estimate was later also
cited by Walter Reich, former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum, writing in The Washington Post on September 8, 1998. The
upper figure of 1,500,000 thus remains the "official" figure as now
inscribed at Auschwitz, with the earlier figure of 4,000,000 having
been removed from the memorial at the site of the former
concentration camp.
1,000,000 Jean-Claude Pressac, writing in his 1989 book "Auschwitz:
Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers." This is interesting
since he wrote his book to repudiate so-called "Holocaust deniers"
who were called that precisely because they had questioned the
numbers of those who had died at Auschwitz.
900,000 Reported on August 3, 1990 11, by Aufbau, a Jewish newspaper
in New York.
800,000 to 900,000 Reported by Gerald Reitlinger in his 1953
book, "The Final Solution." This figure is notable, considering the
fact that it reduces the Auschwitz death total from the 4,000,000
figure that was widely in vogue in 1953.
775,000 to 800,000 Jean-Claude Pressac's revised figure, put forth in
his 1993 book, "The Crematoria of Auschwitz: The Mass Murder's
Machinery", scaling down the figure from Pressac's 1989 claim of
1,000,000 dead. At this juncture, Pressac said that of the new
number, 630,000 were Jews.
630,000 to 710,000 In 1994 Pressac scaled his figure down somewhat
further; this is the figure cited in the German language translation
of Pressac's 1993 book originally published in French. Again, this is
substantially less than Pressac's 1989 figure of 1,000,000.
73,137 This figure was reported in The New York Times on March 3,
1991 and was based entirely on the wartime German concentration camp
records that had been captured by the Soviets and just recently
released. According to this figure, of those dead, 38,031 were Jews.
These records state that the total of all persons who died in the
ENTIRE German prison camp system from 1935 to 1945 were 403,713. To
repeat: a total of 403,713 persons of all races and religions was
officially recorded to have died (of all causes. typhus, old age,
measles, etc.-and execution) in the entire prison camp system over a
10 year period. Of those 403,713 a total of 73,137 died at Auschwitz.
Of those 73,137 who died at Auschwitz, 38,031 were Jews.
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