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Argument Boils About
Numbers Of Auschwitz Dead
The Numbers Decline, The Controversy Increases
Multiple Sources
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It is past time for an international investigation conducted by truly
impartial scientists, researchers and scholars into the reality of Auschwitz
to properly and as accurately as possible bring history into accord with the
facts. Peoples of all religions and persuasions have a right to such facts.
So far, as the following data demonstrates, we are a long way from a
consensus on the truth of what happened at Auschwitz in WWII.

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