So I just started looking on some stuff on wikipedia and some other basic sources.
The number widely quoted is 6 million.
So I looked at the number of Jews in Germany pre-war, in the German 1933 census there were 523,000 Jews living in Germany and an estimated 37,000 left after the National Socialist party took over. I'd imagine if anything their population went down as the National Socialists were openly talking about final solutions.
So where do they get 6 million from if only 500,000 Jews were living in Germany? Well they killed Jews in other countries.
Wikipedia lists many other countries, Demark had an estimated 600 killings, Norway 1,000, Italy 6,500. All the way up to the top 4.
Poland 2.7 million killings
Soviet Union 700,000 killings
Hungary 500,000 killings
Germany 135,000 killings
Those numbers seem odd to me, but let's jump back in a second. Here are some other death totals.
Roma Most estimates of
Roma (Gypsies) victims range from 130,000 to 500,000
Handicapped persons: 200,000 to 250,000
handicapped persons were killed
Prisoners of War: POW deaths in Nazi captivity totaled 3.1 million
Ethnic Poles: 1.8 to 1.9 million ethnic Polish civilians were victims during the German occupation
Homosexuals: 10,000–15,000
gay men perished in Nazi concentration camps
Other victims of Nazi persecution: Between 1,000 to 2,000 Roman Catholic clergy,
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Serbs: (See
World War II persecution of Serbs.) The numbers of Serbs persecuted by the
Ustaše is the subject of much debate and estimates vary widely.
Yad Vashem estimates over 500,000 murdered
- Slavs were useless
sub-humans. As such, their leaders, the Soviet elite, were to be killed and the remainder of the population enslaved or expelled further eastward. As a result of these racist fantasies, millions of civilians in the
Soviet Union were deliberately killed, starved, or worked to deat
So do the 3.1 million POW's count as part of the numbers? 1.8 million ethnic poles were killed? What if a Jew ran away from Germany to France? How do you count for the migration? If there are 500,000 Jews in Germany and 200,000 of them fleed the country, that doesn't mean 200,000 are missing so they are dead? How do you count everything?
So basically the numbers say that roughly 50% of the deaths happened in Poland. 3 million to be exact. The numbers also say that 1.8 million non Jewish ethnic poles were killed! So how many Jews were killed in Poland?
If you read up on Auschwitz it says that the records were destroyed and initial estimates there were 2.5 million, then 1.5 million, then 1 million, then 700,000. Pretty big difference don't you think? So much of the numbers come from there, and they have absolutely no idea how many people died there. And who is to say they were all Jews, what if they were part of the 3 million POWs, or the Roma people, or the Homosexuals? Why do all deaths count as Jews.
Were you aware that 3 million POW's were killed? I didn't hear that
PR campaign.
So I tried to look by concentration camp on wikipedia. They list the know concentration camps and death estimates. If you add it all up the total only comes up to about 3 million. Where are the rest? How are they off by 50%? That also assumes a 1 million total for Auschwitz, which they have no idea if it is true or not, and what about the other 2 million deaths in Poland?
So when I look at this 6 million number it looks grossly exaggerated. I mean if you asked the average person how many Jews were killed in Germany, they'd probably guess 6 million or 4 or 5 million. No, that number is around 100,000! So basically they are saying that 3 million happened in Poland, and 2 million non Jewish Poles were killed, now where would you guess they were killed? When you look at the concentration camp numbers it only adds up to 3 million.
They said that the German economy was doing awful. When AH came to power, within 2 years his national socialist party had created 6 million jobs. The average German liked that and got behind it. The statistic that kept getting thrown around was "6 million jobs created". Anybody who opposed AH had the 6 million number thrown in their face. It was the popular statistic of the day. Well they said after the war they
PR was to reverse that number and throw it in the National Socialists faces. AH didn't create 6 million jobs, he killed 6 million people! This is where the rally cry came from and this is how it was adopted, from what I read.