The Leuchter Report: The answer is rather simple - the SS did kill almost all of them.
After the war, for instance, there were about 70 survivors from
Treblinka (more than 700,000 victims, see also file with excerpts
from ruling of German courts - get pub/camps/aktion.reinhard/reinhard.faq1
and ~/reinhard.faq2). These survivors escaped from the camp,
mostly during the rebellion they carried out. Same for
Auschwitz:
nearly all the members of the "Special Commando" who saw the gassings
and had to carry out and cremate the victims, were killed by the SS,
but a small number of them escaped, mostly during the rebellion of
October 1944. Another factor is the fact that in the end of the war
Auschwitz was in total chaos - the Soviets were approaching fast, and
they even bombed the camp. Thus there was no time to kill all the
occupants, and some were transferred to camps within Germany. Many
of them died in those forced "death marches".
The most current plaintext version of
Part One and
Part Two of this FAQ is available via
ftp.
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