Deceit & Misrepresentation
The Techniques of Holocaust Denial
Appendix 2
Historical sources and the Auschwitz death toll estimates
Auschwitz Death Tolls in Western Sources
Research: Brian Harmon
Further Research: John Drobnicki
"Auschwitz." The World Book Encyclopedia.
Chicago: World Book, 1980. | (2.5
million) |
Bauer, Yehuda. A History of the Holocaust. New
York: F. Watts. 1982. p. 215. | (1.5 to 3.5
million.) |
______. "Danger of Distortion, Poles and Jews alike
are supplying those who deny the Holocaust with the best possible
arguments," Jerusalem Post, 30 Sep 1989. | (1.6 million) |
______. "Foreword," in Müller, Filip.
Eyewitness Auschwitz. New York: Stein and Day, 1979, p. xi.
| (exact figure unknown, but estimated 3.5
million) |
Billig, Joseph. Les camps de concentration dans
l'economie du Reich hitlerien. Paris: Presses universitaires de
France, 1973. pp. 101-102. | (2
million) |
Dawidowicz, Lucy. The War Against the Jews.
New York: Bantam Books, 1979, p. 191. | (1.1
million) |
Encyclopedia Judaica, Jerusalem: Keter
Publishing House, 1974. p. 855. | (1 to 2.5
million) |
Friedman, Filip. This Was Oswiecim: The Story of a
Murder Camp. Translated from the Yiddish original by Joseph
Leftwich. London: The United Jewish Relief Appeal, 1946, p. 14. | (4 to 5 million) |
Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of the Holocaust. New
York: Pergamon Press, 1988. | (Total Polish dead
3 million) |
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European
Jews. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961, p. 572. | (1 million) |
Höss, Rudolf.
Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant of
Auschwitz. ed. by Steven J. Palusky, trans. by Andrew
Pollinger. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1992, p. 391. | (1.13 million) |
Kamenetksy, Ihor. Secret Nazi Plans for Eastern
Europe. New Haven: College and University Press, 1961, p. 174.
| (About 2.5 million) |
Lane, Arthur Bliss. Saw Poland Betrayed: An American
Ambassador Reports to the American People. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948, p. 39
| (Over 3 million) |
Kogon, Eugen. Der SS Staat. Berlin, 1974,
p. 157. | (3.5 to 4.5 million) |
Piper, Franciszek.
"The Number of Victims" in Anatomy of the Auschwitz
Death Camp. Washington D.C and Bloomington: United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum and Indiana University Press, 1994, pp. 68-72.
| (1.1 million) |
Polaikov, Leon. Harvest of Hate Syracuse:
Syracuse University Press, 1956, p. 202. | (2.3
million) |
Reitlinger, Gerald. The Final Solution: The Attempt
to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945. South Brunswick:
T. Yoseloff, 1968, p. 500. | (0.8 to 0.9
million) |
Sofsky, Wolfgang. The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp.
Trans. William Templer. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1997, p. 43 in Galleys.
| (1.1 million) |
Sweibocka, Teresa. Auschwitz: A History in
Photographs. Bloomington and Warsaw: Indiana University Press
and Ksiazka I Wiedza, 1993, pp. 287-288. | (1.1 to
1.5 million) |
Weiss, A. "Categories of Camps, Their character and Role in
the Execution of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question," in
The Nazi Concentration Camps, Jerusalem: Yad Veshem,
1984, pp. 132. | (1.2 to 2.5 million) |
Wellers, Georges. "Essai de determination du nombre de
morts au camp d'Auschwitz" Le Monde Juif, Oct-Dec 1983,
pp. 127-159. | (1.6 million) |
Studies from Poland, former East Germany, and former
Czechoslovakia
These generally cite the findings of the Soviet Commission (4
million), the Supreme National Tribunal in Poland (2.8 to 4
million) or the testimony of Auschwitz Kommandant
Rudolf Höss
(3 million).
"Brestrafung der Verbrecher von Auschwitz," in
Auschwitz: Geschichte und Wirklichkeit des
Vernichtungslagers. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowolt, 1980, p. 211.
| (2.5 to 4 million) |
Czech, D. "Konzentrationslager Auschwitz: Abriss der
Geschichte," in Auschwitz: Geschichte und Wirklichkeit des
Konzentrationslagers. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowolt, 1980, p. 42.
| (2.5 to 4 million) |
Dunin-Wasowicz, Krzysztof. Resistance in the Nazi
concentration camps, 1933-1945. Warsaw: PWN-Polish Scientific
Publishers, 1982, p. 44. | (2.5 to 4
million) |
Madajczyk, Czeslaw. Polityka III Rzeszy w okupowanej
Polsce; okupacja Polski, 1939-1945. Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawn
Naukowe, 1970, pp. 293-94. | (2.8 to 4
million) |
Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich 1939-1945:
informator encyklopedyczny. Warsaw: Panst. Wydaw. Naukowe DSP,
1979, p. 369. | (2.5 to 4 million.) |
Click here for a breakdown of estimated deaths and their causes.
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