The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)

The Leuchter Report:
There were not enough Jews in Europe to
account for the number of 6 million victims

  • There were not enough Jews in Europe to account for the number of 6 million victims

This claim is ridiculous, as attested to by all population statistics of that time, including the numbers of Jews appearing in many original Nazi documents... for instance:

Extracts from the minutes of the Wannsee conference, January 20 1942, regarding the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" [Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953., Vol. XIII, p. 210]

II. At the beginning of the meeting the Chief of the Security Police and the SD, SS Lieutenant General Heydrich, reported his appointment by the Reich Marshal [Goering] to service as Commissioner for the preparation of the Final Solution of the European Jewish Problem....

In the course of this final solution of the European Jewish Problem, approximately 11 million Jews are involved. They are distributed among individual countries as follows:

..
A. Original Reich Territory [Altreich] 131,800
Austria 43,700
Eastern territories 420,000
Government General [Nazi occupied Poland] 2,284,000
..
..
The Netherlands 160,800
..
..
Rumania, including Bessarabia 342,000
..
Hungary 742,800
USSR 5,000,000
..
..
White Russia, excluding Bialystok 446,484
[Many countries deleted for brevity]
TOTAL over 11,000,000

Under proper direction the Jews should now in the course of the Final Solution be brought to the East in a suitable way for use as labor. In big labor gangs, with separation of the sexes, the Jews capable of work are brought to these areas and employed in road building, in which task undoubtedly a great part will fall out through natural diminution.

The remnant that finally is able to survive all this - since this is undoubtedly the part with the strongest resistance - must be treated accordingly since these people, representing a natural selection, are to be regarded as the germ cell of a new Jewish development. (See the experience of history).

In the program of the practical execution of the Final Solution, Europe is combed through from the West to the East.

The claims often made by Holocaust deniers about emigration of Jews after the war are preposterous. For instance, there were 370,000 Jews in Palestine in 1937, and 600,000 in 1948. The numbers arrived at by the Anglo-American committee for studying the Holocaust are the following:

(Conclusions of the Anglo-American committee for studying the Nazi genocide inflicted on the Jews of Europe, with exact breakdown, country by country.)

Numbers of missing Jews (post-war minus pre-war):
Germany195,000
Austria53,000
Czechoslovakia255,000
Denmark1,500
France140,000
Belgium57,0001
Luxemburg3,000
Norway1,000
Holland120,000
Italy20,000
Jugoslavia64,000
Greece64,000
Bulgaria5,000
Rumania530,000
Hungary200,000
Poland3,271,000
USSR1,050,000
Less dispersed refugees (308,000)
Total number of Jews that were exterminated5,721,500
1 This figure is incorrect, in all, nearly 56,000 Jews were registered in Belgium. From these, some 25,000 were sent to the camps, but less than 1200 returned. The number of missing is 23,712.

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