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
| Source
of Estimate |
Estimate |
| "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.) |
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