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Originally Posted by Auftrag  Let me give you an example. The commonly historical accepted number of people to die in Auschwitz is between 1-1.2 million people. That is a total amount, not just Jews. If this is a fact then how is it physically possible for Hitler's regime to have exterminated another 9 million people? |
Many Jewish people died of hunger, inanition and diseases in these camps and in the ghettos. To bring them there and put them under these conditions did not need so many physical resources.
Often the Germans did not even meet much opposition, because they did not tell the Jewish people the truth about where the trains will go to. These Jewish people lived in ghettos, because they had to, they were hungry, because they got only about one third to eat of what is necessary daily. The Germans offered them some bread and jam and told them, the train will bring them to new settlements in the East, where life will be better for them. Many Jewish people did not believe in the stories about the camps, they were thinking like "If they would want to kill us, why should they give us bread?"
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Originally Posted by Auftrag The policy for ethnic cleansing didn't come into existence until 1941, so in 4 years the Hitler regime was supposed to have killed 2.5 million jews a year. Now in 4 years, in a massive industrialised compound like Auschwitz where they killed 20,000 people a day, they only managed to kill a maximum of 1.2 million people. |
There were several extermination camps and many Jewish people died in ghettos or they have been killed by Einsatzkommandos. Many died in smaller camps because of the conditions.
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Originally Posted by Auftrag That clearly doesn't add up. |
The exact number will not be known unless maybe they find some more documents about it. But estimations are that 6 million Jewish people lived before the Holocaust and were not alive anymore when the Holocaust was over.
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Originally Posted by Auftrag Further more, where are all these bodies? They certainly weren't all put in the crematoriums. |
The bodies of the people who died in Warzaw ghetto are probably buried in this area.
There is a study running at this time from French church in the Ukraine, where they search for places where Jewish people have been killed. Many of these places are still unknown to general public, but there are still witnesses alive and they can show them. The people are buried there around the villages, in forests, sometimes in cemetries, the local population often had to do it and they still know the places.
Mr. Desbois estimates a million Jewish victims buried in 1,200 graves in th Ukraine. Add the Jewish people killed in Poland and Belarus and you quickly come into the area of 6 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Desbois