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- The German newsreel (Wochenschau) of judgment in Polish (Krakau) trial of the Auschwitz defendants, released January 8, 1948: “Altogether nearly 300,000 people from the most different nations died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.” Text and translation |
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- David Hebden expresses doubts about the evidence of Pery Broad in the Auschwitz case
- Leon Simmons carps about the Auschwitz death-toll (Letter)
- From an online Q&A session with Dr. Efraim Zuroff (Director of Simon Wiesenthal Centrum in Jerusalem)
- National-Zeitung, July 19, 2002: a rightwing German newspaper: “Neue Quellen, neue Erkenntnisse: Auschwitz: Die Wahrheit.”
- A little-known document from Himmler’s files, reporting death rates in the Nazi concentration camp system 1942/3
- 1948 newsreel reported that Polish war crimes court found that altogether nearly 300,000 died at Auschwitz
- The Sept 21, 1989 Tass announcement of discovery of 46 Auschwitz death-books
- Peter Scherer in Die Welt, March 2, 1990: “Wenn selbst ein Hort des Grauens Hoffnung birgt” (report on the arrival of the death books at Suchdienst Arolsen).
- Novelist Stephen Vizinczey objects in an OpEd piece in The Daily Telegraph, March 14, 1990: “The crime of rewriting history” …
- … to which David Irving replies, starting a controversy
- 1992: Franciszek Piper explains why the figure is dramatically slashed from “four million” to “one million”
- Wartime British decodes of Police and SS messages
- Richard Breitmann book published 1998
- Berlin complains Sep. 1943 to Auschwitz commandant Höss that of 25,000 Jews at Auschwitz in August 1943 only 3,581 are fit for work
- Commandant states Feb 1944 Auschwitz is certifying 40,000 deaths per annum, need more cards printed
- Notes on Richard Korherr, Himmler’s statistician
- Excerpt from Official History of British Intelligence, vol. ii.
- An Israeli historian makes a thought-provoking contribution to Internet discussion on the death-roll…
- H-Net discussion on Auschwitz deathroll, Aug 1999 | Information that 70,000 survived Auschwitz
- IG Farben, wartime chemicals firm, agreed to create a fund to compensate former slave labourers at Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz “where 120,000 died”
- Former communist Auschwitz director Franciszek Piper takes issue with Fritjof Meyer’s article on Auschwitz
 | Fritjof Meyer replies to Franciszek Piper, with calculations on the deathroll
- A 1985 plaque read, image: ‘During the period of this camp’s existence 405,222 prisoners — men, women and children — were entered in the books. Of this number, around 340,000 persons perished at Auschwitz and in the other camps.’
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