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How many deaths at Auschwitz ?

(Dr. Robert Faurisson)

December 10, 1995

9,000,000 persons___according to the documentary film Nuit et Brouillard(Tr.'s Note: "Night and Fog", title used in the English-speakingworld) (1955), whose historical advisers were the historian Henri Micheland the woman historian Olga Wormser-Migot(1)

8,000,000 persons___according to the French War Crime Research Office andthe French War Crime Information Service) (1945) (2)

7,000,000 persons___according to Raphaël Feigelson (1945)(3)

6,000,000 Jews___according to Tibère Kremer, writer of a forewordfor Miklos Nyiszli (1951) (4)

5,000,000 to 5,500,000 persons___according to Bernard Czardybon (1945),according to confessions attributed to some SS members and according tothe newspaper Le Monde (1978), which was adding: "of whom 90% of Jews"(5)

4,500,000 persons ___according to Henryk Mandelbaum (1945) (6)

4,000,000 persons___according to a Soviet document of which the Nurembergtribunal took "judicial notice". This figure was inscribed nineteentimes, with a commentary in as many different languages, on the Auschwitz-Birkenaumonument. It was repeated by a sizable number of persons, including thePolish historian Franciszek Piper. It was to be declared false in 1990 andreplaced, on the monument, in 1995, by the figure of 1,500,000 with theconcurrence of the same F. Piper for whom this figure is a maximum whilethe minimum figure is of 1,100,000. According to Miriam Novitch (1967),of the 4,000,000 dead, 2,700,000 were Jewish. According to Rabbi Moshe Weiss(1991), more than 4,000,000 persons died at Auchwitz, of whom 3,000,000Jews (7)

3,500,000 persons___according to the Dictionnaire de la langue française(Tr.'s Note: Dictionary of the French language) published by Hachette (1991).According to Claude Lanzmann (1980), there were 3,500,000 gassed of whom95% of Jews as well as many other deaths (8)

3,000,000 persons___until December 1st, 1943, according to a confessionextorted from Rudolf Höss, ex-Commander of Auschwitz (9)

3,000,000 Jews gassed___according to David Susskind (1986) and accordingto Heritage, the most inmportant Californian Jewish weekly (1993) (10)

2,500,000 persons, according to Rudolf Vrba for the Eichmann trial (1961)(11)

2,000,000 (?) to 4,000,000 (?)___according to the historian Yehuda Bauer(1982) (12)

2,000,000 to 3,000,000 Jews killed as well as thousands of non-Jews___ accordingto a confession attributed to an SS in charge, Pery Broad (13)

2,000,000 to 2,500,000 persons killed___according to a confession attributedto an SS physician, Dr. Friedrich Entress (1945) (14)

2,000,000 persons___according to the historian Léon Poliakov (1951);according to the historian Georges Wellers (1973) and according to the womanhistorian Lucy Davidowicz (1975) (15)

1,600,000 persons___according to the historian Yehuda Bauer (1989), of whom1,352,980 Jews (16) (the latter figure is from Georges Wellers, 1983)

1,500,000 persons:___ this figure, chosen by Lech Walesa, replaced, in 1995,on the Birkenau monument, that of 4,000,000 which had been withdrawn in1990 (17)

1,471,595 persons___of whom 1,352,980 Jews, according to the historian GeorgesWellers (1983) (18)

1,250,000 persons or so___of whom 1,000,000 Jews killed and more than 250,000non-Jews dead, according to the historian Raul Hilberg (19)

1,100,000 to 1,500,000 persons___according to the historians Yisrael Gutman,Michael Berenbaum and Franciszek Piper (1994) (20)

1,000,000 persons___according to Jean-Claude Pressac (1989) and accordingto the Dictionnaire des noms propres (Tr.'s Note:Dictionary of proper nouns)published by Hachette (1992) (21)

800,000 to 900,000 persons___according to the historian Gerald Reitlinger(1953) (22)

775,000 to 800,000 persons___according to Jean-Claude Pressac (1993), ofwhom 630,000 Jews gassed (23)

630,000 to 710,000 persons___according to Jean-Claude Pressac (1994), ofwhom from 470,000 to 550,000 Jews gassed. (24)

Dr Faurisson adds:

To my knowledge, the latter appraisal (from 630,000 to 710,000 persons)is the lowest that those who believe in the physical extermination of theJews ever provided. It is said sometimes that in 1946/1947, the Polish judicialauthorities admitted the figure of 300,000 deaths. That is an error. Thoseauthorities estimated the total of the dead at 300,000 persons registeredon their arrival, but, to that figure, they added the figure of 3,000,000to 4,000,000 unregistered persons (25).

During more than forty years, the Soviet, Polish and Federal Republic ofGermany authorities showed themselves very discreet on the existence ofmortuary registers (Sterbebücher) which had been kept during the warby the Auschwitz camp authorities. Under the pressure of the revisionists,at the two Zündel trials (Toronto, 1985 and 1988) in particular, thoseauthorities at long last made revelations on those registers. They asserthaving retrieved registers but for the period from July 27, 1941 to December31, 1943. Since the camp was opened May 20, 1940 and as the Germans evacuatedit January 18, 1945, that period represents a little more than half theduration of the camp's existence under their authority. The registers retrievedare, it appears, in the number of 46 and would include 69,000 names (andnot 74,000 as was said by certain journalists) (26).

The supporters of the official version of the "Holocaust" haveexperienced some discomfort facing the necessity, imposed by the revisionists,to revise downwards, in such proportions, the number of the Auschwitz deaths.How can it be explained that at the Nuremberg trial (1945-1946), such adeception had been taken straight off "judicial notice" of, thanksto Section 21 of that Tribunal's Charter? How can it be explained that,during official ceremonies, so many of this world's Greats, including PopeJohn Paul II, were asked to come and bow in front of such an invention ofquacks? How can it be explained that in 1990, France equipped itself withan anti-revisionist law section forbidding any disputing of the "crimesagainst humanity" such as described and evaluated by the Nurembergtribunal? And then, how can the figure of 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 Jews deadduring the whole war be protected from any revision, if it was necessaryto revise to that extent the figure of the deaths of Auschwitz?

Today, some Jews explain that the Poles, and they alone, would have inventedthe Auschwitz 4,000,000 lie. Actuated by antisemitism and nationalisticpride simultaneously, the Poles would have added to nearly 1,500,000 Jewishdeaths about 2,500,000 Polish or other deaths! (27)

This explanation is but a contrivance. The truth is that, as early as bythe war's end, not only the Communistic Jews, but also the judicial authoritiesof Poland had been repeating that the majority of the Auschwitz deaths wasJewish. At Cracow, in 1946-1947, about the case of Rudolf Höss, theinvestigating magistrate as well as the prosecution had concluded that,besides a few hundred thousand "recorded" deaths, there had beenat Auschwitz either 4,000,000 or at least 2,500,000 deaths, "most ofthem Jewish" (28).

During the winter of 1963-1964, a specific monument was built in memoryof the "millions of Jews, martyrs and fighters" exterminated inthat camp; the inscription was in Polish, in Yiddish and in Hebrew(29).

Let us add finally that, for the historians of the "Holocaust",most of the Auschwitz Jews would have been KILLED by means of an insecticide:Zyklon B. For Arthur R. Butz and for other revisionists, the total numberof the Auschwitz deaths must have risen to some 150,000, of whom about 100,000Jews (30).

Most of the Jews were not KILLED but DIED, above all because of the typhusepidemics. The revisionists point out that, if the Germans had had at theirdisposal greater quantities of the Zyklon B insecticide precisely in orderto fight those epidemics, fewer people would have died in Auschwitz notonly among the Jews, the Poles, the Russians and other detainees, but alsoamong the German physicians, civil servants and warders.

Inscription on the Auschwitz-Birkenau monument until April 3, 1990

"FOUR MILLION PEOPLE SUFFERED AND DIED HERE AT THE HANDS OF THE NAZIMURDERERS BETWEEN THE YEARS 1940 AND 1945." *

Inscription on the same monument in 1995

"MAY THIS PLACE WHERE THE NAZIS ASSASSINATED A MILLION AND A HALF MEN,WOMEN AND CHILDREN, A MAJORITY OF THEM JEWS FROM DIVERSE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES,BE FOREVER FOR MANKIND A CRY OF DESPAIR AND OF WARNING."

* In French: "Ici, de 1940 à 1945, 4 millions d'hommes, de femmeset d'enfants ont été torturés et assassinéspar les génocides hitlériens"; in German: "Martyrer-und Todesort von 4 Millionen Opfern ermordet von nazistichen Völkermordern,1940-1945".

References and notes for the above numbers can be found at a separate document.It is suggested that it be printed out for easy reference.

NOTES Among the historians who maintain the thesis according to which Auschwitzwould have been an extermination camp, the main studies bearing on the numberof the deaths in that camp are those of the the Frenchman Georges Wellerspublished in 1983 and 1990 and those of the Pole Franciszek Piper publishedin 1991, 1992 and 1994, respectively:

- Georges Wellers, "Essai de détermination du nombre des mortsau camps d'Auschwitz"(Tr.'s Note: Attempt at determining the numberof the deaths at the Auschwitz camp), Le Monde juif, October-December 1983,pp. 17-159; - " " "A propos du nombre de morts au camp d'Auschwitz"(Tr.'s Note: About the number of deaths at the Auschwitz camp), Le Mondejuif, October-December 1990, pp.187-195; - Franciszek Piper "Estimatingthe Number of Deportees to and Victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp",Yad Vashem Studies, XXI (1991), pp. 40 - 103. The latter study, correctedand enlarged, was published as a brochure in the English language printedin Poland: - " " Auschwitz/How Many Perished/Jews, Poles, Gypsies...,[completed reprint], Printed in Poland by Poligrafia ITS, 30-306, Krakow,1992, 68 p.

One can also consult: - " " "The Number of Victims"in Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, Anatomy of the Auschwitz DeathCamp", published in association with the United States Holocaust MemorialMuseum, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1994, pp.61-80.Of these five studies, the most interesting are, for G. Wellers, that of1983 and, for F. Piper, that of 1992, to wit, in abbreviated form hereunder:"G. Wellers, op. cit, 1983" and "F. Piper, op. cit., 1992".The two authors proceed to the reminder -- painful for them -- of the "errors"committed in the past as to the number of the Auschwitz deaths. Regardingthis, I recommend reading G. Wellers, op. cit., 1983, pp. 138-139 and F.Piper, op. cit., 1992, pp. 5-16. Nothing shows better than those pages towhat extent, on nevertheless so grave a topic as this, the number of thedeaths, the worst fancies were indulged in.

(1) Nuit et Brouillard, a 32 minute film in black and white untiringly spreadin all of France's colleges and other secondary schools as well as on Frenchtelevision over the last forty years. Director: Alain Resnais. Historicaladvisors: Henri Michel (Chairman of the World War II History Committee)and Olga Wormser-Migot. Text: Jean Cayrol. 1956 Jean Vigo Award. In thatfilm, it is said that"nothing distinguished the gas (singular) chamberfrom an ordinary block". The concrete ceiling of the "gas chamber"is shown in it "ploughed up by the fingernails" and it is addedabout this: "even the concrete was getting torn up". It is assertedthere that, with the bodies, "manufacturing soap is intended"."As to the skin" of the bodies , the image shows us that the Germanswere tanning it. Those stories of scratched concrete, of human soap andof skin tanned by the Germans are of the of the order of the myth. Withthe camera lingering on the Birkenau landscape, the commentator says: "Ninemillion dead are haunting this landscape". This sentence is utteredtowards the end of the film.

(2) Jacques Billiet, Director of the War Crime Information Service, Documentspour servir à l'histoire de la guerre / Camps de concentration (Tr.'sNote: Documents to be used for the war's history/Concentration camps), Officefrançais d'édition, 1945, p. 7 (J. Billiet himself) as wellas p. 196 (Series of reports of the War Crime Search Office; these samereports evaluate at 26,000,000 the number of prisoners of war as well asof the political detainees having died in all the camps of Germany and ofthe occupied territories, p. 197). This work was written by Eugene Aroneanu.

(3) Ibidem, p. 196.

(4) "6,000,000 innocents went through the chimneys of the ovens ofAuschwitz because one of their close or remote forerunners was of the Israelitereligion" writes Tibère Kremer in his preface to a text attributedto Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, "SS Obersturmführer Docteur Mengele"/Journal d'un médecin déporté au crématoriumd'Auschwitz" (Tr.'s Note: "SS Obersturmführer Doctor Mengele"/Diaryof a physician deported to the crematorium of Auschwitz"), Les Tempsmodernes, March 1951, p. 1655.

(5) Bernard Czardybon at the Cracow R. Höss trial, according to F.Piper, op. cit., 1992, p. 7-8. For the confessions attributed to some SS,ibidem, p. 8. "Auschwitz, where perished more than five million men,women and children, of whom 90% of Jews" in "Manifestation dusouvenir à Paris devant le mémorial du martyr juif inconnu"(Tr.'s Note: Remembrance demonstration at Paris in front of the unknownJewish martyr's memorial) (Le Monde, April 20, 1978).

(5) Henryk Mandelbaum at the Cracow R. Höss trial, according to F.Piper, op. cit., 1992, p. 7.

(7) From 1945 to 1990, it is this figure of 4,000,000 that was enforcedas if by law. It emanated from a Soviet document dated May 6, 1945. Thedocument was taken "judicial notice" of by the Nuremberg Tribunal,thanks to Section 21 of that Tribunal's Charter. It appears at pages 241-261of volume 39 of the official proceedings and documents of the Procèsdes grands criminels de guerre devant le tribunal militaire international,Nuremberg 14 novembre 1945-1er octobre 1946, published, for the French version,at Nuremberg, Germany, from 1947 to 1949; that is to say TMI XXXIX, pp.241-261(... - official English edition - pages 241 and 261 of the officialproceedings and documents of the Trial of the Major War Criminals beforeThe International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October1946: IMTXXXIX, pp. 241 and 261). The Russian original was translated intoGerman and it was that translation in German which was reproduced in theFrench edition. The summation, in French, placed at the top of the document,states among other things: "More than 4,000,000 million human beingsbrought from the countries occupied by Germany were killed in the [Auschwitzextermination] camp, most gassed as early as on arrival (p.241). In fact,the document itself states, in German: "No fewer than 4,000,000"(p. 261)(On p. 241 of IMT, XXXIX -official English edition - "Over4 million people from the contries occupied by Germany were killed in Auschwitz,in most cases by gas immediately after their arrival). For the considerablenumber of persons who reiterated on their own that figure of 4,000,000 orof about 4,000,000, one can, to start with, refer to the names of the formerdetainees Shlomo Dragon, Henry Tauber, Erwin Olszowka, of the investigatingmagistrate Jan Sehn, of the prosecution attorney Pechalski, of the Professor-EngineerRoman Dawidowski, of the judges of the of Supreme National Tribunal of Poland,of prosecution attorneys of American military tribunals, of all kinds ofauthors or historians and of people in charge of the Auschwitz State Museumsuch as Kazimierz Smolen, Danuta Czech, et Franciskek Piper (according toF. Piper, op. cit., 1992, pp. 7-8, 12-14). "Of the 4,000,000 victimsof Auschwitz, 2,700,000 were Jews and 1,300,000 were non-Jews" (MiriamNovitch, La Vérité sur Treblinka (Tr.'s Note: The Truth onTreblinka), Israel, Beth Lohamet, , 1967, p. 39. "More than 4,000,000people perished [in Auschwitz]; almost 3,000,000 of them were Jews"(Rabbi Dr. Moshe Weiss, Former Vice President Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi,"Yom HaShoah-Holocaust Remembrance, The Jewish Press, April 5, 1991).

(8) Willy nilly, the lawyers of the Nuremberg trial's accused often tookthe the same side as the prosecution. Thus was it, for instance, that Dr.Gustav Steinbauer, lawyer of Arthur Seyss-Inquart, declared July 19, 1946before the tribunal: "Auschwitz engulfed, alone, 3,500,000 human beings,men, women and children" (TMI, XIX, p. 55)(Auschwitz alone has swallowedup 3 1/2 million people - men, women and children. IMT, XIX, p. 48). "Auschwitz:[...] a great extermination camp where perished about 3,500,000 Jews andPoles between 1940 and 1945" (Dictionnaire de la langue française,Hachette, 1991, 1430 pp.). The following year, the Hachette publishing housereduced that figure to 1,000,000 (see note 21). "It is not possibleto give to the thousand the exact number of those who perished in the Birkenaugas chambers (the most serious valuations hover around 3,500,000), but byextermination must be meant essentially the Jewish people's. Ninety-fivepercent of Birkenau's gassed were Jews [...]. Many (other detainees) stilllost their life [...]" (Preface of Claude Lanzmann to Filip Müller,Trois ans dans une chambre à gaz d'Auschwitz (Tr.'s Note: Three yearsin an Auschwitz gas chamber), Pygmalion/Gérard Watelet, 1980, p.12).

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