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Holocaust: gas chambers & Zyklon-B
cannisters
From: Salvador
Astucia (salvadorwriter@cs.com)
Subject: (OT) Holocaust: gas chambers & Zyklon-B cannisters
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
Date: 2003-09-03 09:11:54 PST
[Salvador:]
>> >> >> ... People like S Dolly want people like Germar
>> >> >> Rudolf silenced forever.
[Josh Dougherty:]
>> >> > That would place you in the camp of the Hitlers of
>> >> > the world. I think anyone should be aloud to "voice
>> >> > there views" (sic), no matter how wonderful or
>> >> > horrible I might think those views are.
[Salvador:]
>> >> I am telling the Holocaust story from a German
>> >> point of view, but it is somewhat confusing to claim
>> >> I am "in the camp of the Hitlers of the world" because
>> >> that phrase suggests I endorse mass murder. I do not.
>> >> Frankly, I do not believe Hitler did either. No more
>> >> than Roosevelt, Churchill and Truman; not to mention
>> >> Stalin, of course.
[Teddy:]
>> > !!!!!!!!! You know, the only thing that stops this
>> > from being funny is that it's so terribly, terribly
>> > sick and sad. Oh no, Hitler didn't endorse mass
>> > murder.
[Salvador:]
>> There's no evidence that he did.
[Teddy:]
>> > He was just behind a little something known as The
>> > Final Solution. It involved making my great-grandmother's
>> > hometown "judenrein"--free of Jews, and he didn't send
>> > them to Miami.
[Salvador:]
>> You love to evoke labels like Final Solution and Holocaust,
>> but you never define what they mean. What exactly are you
>> saying when you evoke the label, Final Solution? Please
>> tell us, in your own words.
[Teddy:]
> Oh yeah, it's just me. Just a little quirk I have. Sorry,
> that coy act of yours may drive all the boys wild around
> the bunkers, but it doesn't work with me. Sane, functional
> types with a decent education know about The Final Solution.
> Even the Germans know.
[Salvador:]
>> I accept that lots of Jewish people died under Hitler's
>> reign, but that does that mean he systematically sent them
>> to gas chambers. People die in prisons all the time--
>> especially during a war--for reasons that have nothing to
>> do with mass-murder.
[Teddy:]
> Uh-huh. And they die a whole lot faster in closed-up fake
> shower rooms with Zyklon-B cannisters gassing them to
> death. Saves money on bullets!
Zyklon-B was used by the Nazis as a non-lethal means of fighting
lice to contain and eliminate an outbreak of typhus in Auschwitz
in early July 1942. (SOURCE: G. Rudolf, The Rudolf Report, p 60)
Despite all the hate speech directed at Nazis, Hitler, and
Germans in general, the Nazis were trying to help the POWs
when they used Zyklon-B to delouse them. The Nazis were
trying to prevent the spread of typhus. In the end, the Nazis
lost the battle and a lot of deaths followed, BUT NOT SIX
MILLION JEWS! THAT IS A LIE! The Zyklon-B gassing was purely
a humanitarian effort, not an effort to commit mass-murder.
Nazis were not monsters. The true monsters are the ones who
spread the lies about the Holocaust, gas chambers, the Final
Solution, and the mass-murder of six million Jews. They
brainwashed entired nations into believing black is white
and white is black.
To learn more about the real monsters, read this:
http://www.come-and-hear.com
The Nazis' humanitarian efforts were used against them
after the war was over as part of a propaganda campaign,
an effort that virtually established the Jewish State of Israel.
When the great lie is exposed, Israel will cease to
exist. The stakes are high when discussing gas chambers.
Salvador
------
Salvador Astucia, author of the following books:
- "Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination: The FBI's War on Rock Stars"; and
- "Opium Lords: Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination".
http://www.jfkmontreal.com
Zyklon B was used to disinfest prisoners'
quarters
From: Salvador
Astucia (salvadorwriter@cs.com)
Subject: Re: (OT) Holocaust: gas chambers & Zyklon-B cannisters
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
Date: 2003-09-03 10:11:47 PST
[Salvador:]
>> ...They brainwashed entired nations into believing black is
>> white and white is black.
[Dyuob Poltice:]
> Because WE WILL NOT FORGET.
>
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/pages/t088/t08820.html
>============================
>
>
http://www.onlinerock.com/musicians/dyuob/
>===========================================
> [...]
---quote on---
Initially, for disinfestation of personal effects, ordinary rooms
(10 to 30 m2 surface area) were temporarily modified, by
making the windows and doors as gas-tight as possible
by means of felt sealant material and paper strips, while
providing for proper heating and ventilation of the rooms.
Workers wearing gas masks spread Zyklon B evenly
on the floor of the room containing the property to be
disinfested. This procedure was similar to what was
then the regular fumigation of ordinary rooms for the
destruction of vermin. [The word "vermin refers to real
rats & mice, not a particular ethnic group.] Such converted
rooms may be seen even today in the main camp of
Auschwitz I. The use of temporary sealed rooms for
fumigation purposes is not without risk since the sealing
is never perfect.
---quote off---
(G. Rudolf, The Rudolf Report, p 63)
------
Salvador Astucia, author of the following books:
- "Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination: The FBI's War on Rock Stars"; and
- "Opium Lords: Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination".
http://www.jfkmontreal.com
Typical procedure for delousing prisoners at
Auschwitz
Subject: Re:
(OT) Holocaust: gas chambers & Zyklon-B cannisters
From: Salvador Astucia
(salvadorwriter@cs.com)
Date: 9/4/03 2:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <20030904141915.14265.00000372@mb-m12.news.cs.com>
[...]
[Todd:]
>>> Why would you make doors and windows air-tight while
>>> allowing for proper ventilation?
[Salvador:]
>> The term is "gas-tight", not "air-tight." Mr.
>> Rudolf is saying that you want to control the
>> flow of Zyklon-B in the room being deloused
>> without shutting down the heating system.
[Todd:]
> Air is a combination of gasses. To be gas-tight
> is to be air-tight.
We all know what air is. You appear to be
quibbling for the sake of quibbling. I am
deleting your remaining comments because
they do not address Mr. Rudolf's research.
Also, you changed the title of the thread,
so it is obvious you have no interest in
participating in a serious debate.
[Salvador:]
>> I get the impression you think Mr. Rudolf's
>> delousing procedure is a process for delousing
>> human beings. This is an incorrect interpretation.
>> I believe Mr. Rudolf is describing how to use
>> Zyklon-B to delouse a room where prisoners were
>> kept without the prisoners actually being in the
>> room during the delousing process. Note his opening
>> phrase: "Initially, for disinfestation of personal
>> effects,..." Later he says the "procedure was
>> similar to what was then the regular fumigation
>> of ordinary rooms for the destruction of vermin."
>>
>> Have you ever had your house fumigated? Did they
>> turn the heat off or block the heating/ventilation
>> system? Of course not. Did they seal off areas
>> to prevent fumigation gas from going everywhere?
>> Probably.
>>
>> Mr. Rudolf is describing the same thing, but
>> with quite a bit of detail.
Mr. Rudolf described a typical procedure for
delousing human beings at Auschwitz. Here is
his description:
---quote on---
[Mr. Rudolf references a diagram, Fig. 15,
which shows a typical process for giving
POWs showers and disinfecting their clothes.
Here is a close approximation of Fig. 15.]
Undressing room ---> Shower/ ----> Dressing room
'Dirty Side' Sauna
'Clean Side'
\
/
\
/
\
/
Disinfestation/Disinfection/Laundry
Fig. 15: Schematic organization of a hygien complex
--> Clothing pathway --> Inmate pathway
---quote on---
- Undressing room, 'dirty side'. People to be deloused
removed their soiled clothing and handed them over
for disinfestation/disinfection.
- Shower. Prisoners washed themselves after undressing,
plus sometimes other procedures, such as haircuts,
medical examinations, including a sauna.
-
Dressing room, 'clean side'. Their own cleaned and
sanitized clothing was given back to the prisoners
or substitute clothing was issued to them since
the cleaning may have lasted many hours.
-
Disinfestation/Disinfection room. An area to clean
and process the clothing combined with a laundry.
---quote off---
(Germar Rudolf, The Rudolf Report, p 64)
Salvador
------
Salvador Astucia, author of the following books:
- "Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination: The FBI's War on Rock Stars"; and
- "Opium Lords: Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination".
http://www.jfkmontreal.com
Myth is challenged that few Polish Jews
survived Nazi camps
From: Salvador
Astucia (salvadorwriter@cs.com)
Subject: Re: (OT) Holocaust: gas chambers & Zyklon-B cannisters
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
Date: 2003-09-03 23:36:56 PST
[Salvador:]
>> >> ...Despite all the hate speech directed at Nazis, Hitler,
>> >> and Germans in general, the Nazis were trying to
help >>
>> the POWs when they used Zyklon-B to delouse them.
>> >>The Nazis were trying to prevent the spread of
typhus.
[Teddy:]
> There are fewer than 10,000 Jews left in Poland out
> of MILLIONS pre-war. That was some nasty case of
> the flu going around.
You're forgetting about the Jews who migrated to
Palestine which became the independent Jewish
State of Israel three years after the war's
end. Just because fewer than 10,000 Jews were
left in Poland after the war doesn't mean they all
died. That's sloppy record keeping.
Several notable Polish Jews survived the war.
Ever hear of a guy named David Ben-Gurion,
born in Plonsk, Poland? The Nazis missed him.
How about Yitzhak Shamir, born in Ruzinoy, Poland?
What do you know? They missed him too.
And kick me in the Kol Nidre we forgot about
Shimon Peres, born Wolozyn, Poland. Gee wiz,
did the Nazis actually kill anyone?
Salvador
------
Salvador Astucia, author of the following books:
- "Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination: The FBI's War on Rock Stars"; and
- "Opium Lords: Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination".
http://www.jfkmontreal.com
Photos of eye-witness accounts of mass corpses
do not prove six million died, or gas chambers were used to kill them
From: Salvador Astucia (salvadorwriter@cs.com)
Subject: Re: (OT) Holocaust: gas chambers & Zyklon-B cannisters
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
Date: 2003-09-04 13:40:08 PST
[Drizzt:]
>>> You guys still arguing with this crackpot? Great stamina.
[Salvador:]
>> Such vitriolic remarks from the Holohoaxers further support
>> the argument I am making: Gas chambers are a Talmudic
>> myth. Sarcastic ridicule and ad hominem attacks are a poor
>> substitute for scientific evidence.
[Dyuob Poltice:]
> So you're telling me my father (a chaplins assistant
> in the 3rd US army) is lying about the death camps?
You'll have to provide a quotation of what your
father said before I attempt to refute his words.
If he said he saw a lot of corpses, I would say,
Okay, I believe you. If he says he knows
absolutely that six million Jews died just because
he saw a large number of corpses, I would
respectfully say he is mistaken. Unless he
personally counted six million Jewish corpses,
his eye-witness testimony does not prove the
Holocaust occurred as Jews would have us
believe. In Jewish ease, Holocaust means
six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis
and gas chambers were the primary means
of execution.
Couldn't the corpses your father saw be the
victims of typhus?
[Dyuob Poltice:]
> He was there, at the wars end, he saw what
> happened.
The key phrase is "at the wars end." He only
knows he saw a lot of corpses. He has no
idea what happened to them, at least based
on what you've stated, he didn't see them
killed.
Using common sense, the Holocaust story
simply does not hold together very well.
For example, why gas people? There are
easier, less expensive ways to kill.
Mr. Rudolf addresses this point in his
book. Here is an excerpt:
--- quote on ---
One might naturally wonder why the SS are
supposed to have decided to use Zyklon B
as an instrument of mass murder. The Soviets,
at any rate, killed countless millions of human
beings either simply by shooting them in the
back of the neck or allowing them to die in
camps under miserable conditions. Surely
it would have been simpler to leave the
people deported to Auschwitz to their fate;
they would have perished from hunger and
epidemics within a very short time anyway.
That is how the Americans murdered
approximately 1 million German civilian
internees after the end of the Second
World War. Instead, the SS at Auschwitz
spent almost one billion dollars, in today's
values, to bring epidemics raging there
under control, incurring huge expenditures
on medical facilities, to cure the internees
from the typhus epidemics, which were very
often fatal. This alone speaks volumes about
the credibility of the conventional wisdom.
--- quote off ---
(Germar Rudolf, The Rudolf Report, p 241)
[Dyuob Poltice:]
> He told me, and I have told my kids.
> This will be passed on forever BECAUSE
> WE WILL NOT FORGET! Have you ever
> read the book "the Good old Days" edited
> by Klee, Dressen and Reiss? You need to
> read it. Something tells me you won't, though.
In two years, it will be sixty years since
the end of World War Two. Perhaps it's time
to let it rest in peace.
------
Salvador Astucia, author of the following books:
- "Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination: The FBI's War on Rock Stars"; and
- "Opium Lords: Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination".
http://www.jfkmontreal.com
Holocaust defender refuses to understand
Hitler's motivation for actions taken. Salvador presents evidence that
number of dead at Auschwitz fell from 9 million in 1955 to 135,000 in
present day.
Subject: Re: (OT) Auschwitz & gas chambers
From: cropdustersal@cs.com (Salvador Astucia)
Date: 11/29/04 8:48 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <20041129204833.12369.00001370@mb-m28.news.cs.com>
<snip>
[Mister Charlie]
>> >> >> >> > Ah yes, you display the same "humanity" the
>> >> >> >> > Nazis did in de-licing their "guests."
[Salvador]
>> >> >> >> ...it was humane to use Zyklon-B as a
>> >> >> >> non-lethal means of fighting lice to contain
>> >> >> >> and eliminate an outbreak of typhus in Auschwitz
>> >> >> >> in early July 1942.
[Mister Charlie]
>> >> >> > No, it was nothing of the sort. Those people
>> >> >> > didn't belong there in the first place.
[Salvador]
>> >> >> That's a very good point, Charlie. On one hand,
>> >> >> I agree it's wrong to place innocent people in
>> >> >> prison. It was equally wrong when the United
>> >> >> States did exactly the same thing to Japanese
>> >> >> Americans after the Japanese attacked Pearl
>> >> >> Harbor. But on the other hand, I can understand
>> >> >> why a leader of a nation might want to isolate
>> >> >> a group of the population if that group was
>> >> >> deemed incorrigible because its culture
>> >> >> encouraged criminal and immoral behavior or if
>> >> >> the group in question was a religious cult group
>> >> >> whose clandestine activities were detrimental to
>> >> >> the government. How does one handle a "state within
>> >> >> a state?" Even more basic, what would you do,
>> >> >> Charlie, if you were president of a nation with
>> >> >> a large Gypsy population which constantly stole
>> >> >> from the populace? At what point would you take
>> >> >> action?
<snip>
[Mister Charlie]
>> > ...As for what I would do, I am not in the position
>> > to have to do anything, therefore I don't HAVE to tell
>> > you or anyone how I would handle civil unrest or
>> > management. That is a science unto itself, one that
>> > I am not involved in. But what I would do is irrelevant
>> > to the entire topic.
[Salvador]
>> I agree, Charlie, you are under no obligation to state
>> how you would handle such a situation wherein you were
>> leader of a nation which had problems with a group of
>> incorrigible religious fanatics--or Gypies--who undermined
>> the government under which they lived. I completely understand
>> your position.
>>
>> Frankly, your refusal to respond is quite reasonable,
>> given the hard-line position you take about the Holocaust,
>> six million dead Jews, gas chambers, Hitler, the whole nine
>> yards. To put yourself in Hitler's shoes--as leader of
>> Germany--would undermine such a hard-line position and
>> might even create a degree of empathy for the difficult
>> position Mr. Hitler was in, which ultimately led to the
>> unfortunate deaths of thousands of innocents.
>>
>> Yes, it's always easier to repeat the same charges against
>> someone you hate rather than to put yourself in his/her shoes
>> and try to understand why certain actions were taken.
[Mister Charlie]
> Nice creative scenario, but of course there is no proof these
> are my feelings nor any basis in reality that Hitler deserves
> the merest bit of empathy...I guess old Adolf put himself in
> the position by doing what he did. Crimes against humanity
> and all that well-intended leadership stuff.
"Crimes against humanity" is a relative term. Frankly, any
German with half a brain would have to be incensed that the
United States endorsed the Nuremberg Trials--which resulted
in the executions of several Nazi officers, presumably for
ethnic cleansing and other "crimes against humanity"--while
the Americans got away with one of the worst forms of ethnic
cleansing in the history of mankind: the dropping of atomic
bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki; not to
mention the firebombing of the beautiful German city of
Dresden by the Allied forces.
Another point: it is amazing to me that Western historians are
unable to agree on the number of German and Japanese civilians
murdered by the allied forces in the fire-bombing of Dresden
or the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans.
Yet virtually all mainstream historians agree with great
certainty that six million Jews died in Nazi Germany over
a seven year period (1938-45) under the most clandestine
circumstances. This has got to be a joke to any German with
even an ounce of intelligence.
[Mister Charlie]
>> > The point is what WAS done?...
[Salvador]
>> Actually, "what WAS done" is the point of this discussion.
>> You're sticking to the fairy tale that the Nazis exterminated
>> six million Jews in the most cold-blooded fashion imaginable,
>> by putting them in gas chambers. My position (a popular one,
>> BTW) is that the number dead is closer to one million
>> and gas chambers were not used at all as a killing device,
>> but as a means of fumigating the inmates living quarters
>> to stop the spread of typhus in Auschwitz in early July 1942.
>> Unfortunately, typhus won out. But your previous point is well
>> taken. The Jews should never have been put in camps to begin
>> with, then typhus would be a moot point.
[Mister Charlie]
> Don't bother trying to dilute your mad hatred by acting
> reasonable. It won't work.
Don't be reasonable? Wow, what a comeback, but unfortunately,
the "don't be reasonable" attitude accurately reflects the
mindset of most people who accept and propagate the conventional
version of the Holocaust. The propagandists keep pushing
six million as the number of Jews who died during that period,
although documented death counts at individual German camps
do not support the six million figure.
For example, let's look at the number of dead in Auschwitz.
There is no set number; it's constantly changing. The highest
number, 9 million, was cited in the 1955 French documentary,
"Night and Fog", which has been shown to millions of school
students worldwide.
The lowest number, 135,000, is an estimate based on documents
held by the International Tracing Service of the Red Cross,
although this organization has never officially published an
accurate count of those who died, or even an accurate report
as to exactly which documents they hold.
The following article, "The Diminishing Numbers of Alleged Dead
in Auschwitz," provides a detailed accounting of the ever shrinking
number people who died at Auschwitz.
Salvador Astucia
[interesting article]
Diminishing Numbers of
Alleged Dead in Auschwitz
From: nick@danger.info (nick@danger.info)
Subject: The Diminishing Numbers of Alleged Dead in Auschwitz
Newsgroups: alt.revisionism, soc.culture.jewish, sci.skeptic
Date: 2004-08-14 10:33:34 PST
The Diminishing Numbers of Alleged Dead in Auschwitz
9,000,000
Source: Cited by the French documentary, Night and Fog, which has been
shown to millions of school students worldwide.
8,000,000
Source: The French War Crime Research Office, Doc. 31, 1945.
7,000,000
Source: Also cited by the French War Crime Research Office.
6,000,000
Source: 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
Source: Cited in 1945 at the trial of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss,
based on his confession which was written in English, a language he
never spoke.
5,000,000
Source: 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
Source: In 1945 this figure was cited by another witness at the
aforementioned Höss trial.
4,000,000
Source: 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, 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 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
Source: 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
Source: Cited in a forced confession by Rudolf Höss, 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
Source: Cited by Rudolf Vrba (an author of various fraudulent accounts
of events he claims to have witnessed at Auschwitz) when he testified
on July 16, 1981 for the Israeli government's war crimes trial of
former SS official Adolf Eichmann.
2,000,000
Source: Cited by 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
Source: Cited by Yehuda Bauer in 1982 in his book, A History of the
Holocaust. However, by 1989 Bauer revised his figure to 1,600,000.
1,600,000
Source: This is a 1989 revision by 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
Source: In 1995 this was the number of Auschwitz deaths announced by
Polish President Lech Walesa as determined by those 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
Source: This is a 1983 figure cited by Georges Wellers who (as noted
previously) had determined, writing in 1973, that some 2,000,000 had
died.
1,433,000
Source: 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
Source: In the book, The Destruction of the European Jews, by Raul
Hilberg (1985).
1,100,000 to 1,500,000
Source: Sources for this estimate are Yisrael Gutman and Michael
Berenbaum in their 1984 book, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
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 is (the new)
"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
Source: 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
Source: Reported on August 3, 1990 11, by Aufbau, a Jewish newspaper
in New York.
800,000 to 900,000
Source: Reported by Gerald Reitlinger in his book, The Final Solution.
775,000 to 800,000
Source: Jean-Claude Pressac's revised figure, put forth in his 1993
book, The Crematoria of Auschwitz: The Mass Murder's Machinery,
scaling down his earlier claim of 1,000,000 dead.
630,000 to 710,000
Source: 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.
135,000 to 140,000
Source: This is an estimate based on documents held by the
International Tracing Service of the Red Cross. It is known that
International Tracing Service has a complete set of registration
documents. This is thought to include a complete set of roll-call data
which includes twice daily tallies of those who died. Although the
International Tracing Service of the Red Cross has such records, they
have never officially published an accurate count of those who died,
or even an accurate report as to exactly which documents they hold.
However, totals from these records have been obtained by various
interested parties.
The estimate of 135,500 is roughly corroborated by the "Auschwitz
death books." The death books themselves are wartime German camp
records, which were captured by the Soviets towards the end of the
war, and hidden in Soviet achieves, until released to the Red Cross in
1989.
The death books consist of 46 volumes which document each death at
Auschwitz (each death certificate consists of the deceased person's
full name, profession and religion, date and place of birth,
pre-Auschwitz residence, parents' names, time of death, and cause of
death as determined by a camp physician). The records for the most
important years, 1942 and 1943, are almost complete (there are also a
few volumes for the year 1941, but none for the year 1944 or January
1945 (when Auschwitz was evacuated)).
The Auschwitz death books contain the death certificates of some
69,000 individuals, of whom about 30,000 were listed as Jews. You may
view various entries in the Auschwitz Death Books by clicking on the
following links to the Auschwitz museum:
About the Auschwitz Death Books
Searching the Auschwitz Death Books
Using all available wartime records from the various camps it has been
estimated that between 400,000 and 500,000 people died in the German
concentration camp system (from all causes).
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