64 There were not enough Jews in Europe to account for the number of 6 million victims (Holocaust: Leuchter)
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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
64 There were not enough Jews in Europe to account for the number of 6 million victims (Holocaust: Leuchter)
This claim is ridiculous, as attested to by all population statistics
of that time, including the numbers of Jews appearing in many
original Nazi documents... for instance:
Extracts from the minutes of the Wannsee conference, January 20 1942,
regarding the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" [Trials of War
Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - Washington, U.S
Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953., Vol. XIII, p. 210]
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[...]
II. At the beginning of the meeting the Chief of the Security
Police and the SD, SS Lieutenant General Heydrich, reported his
appointment by the Reich Marshal [Goering] to service as
Commissioner for the preparation of the Final Solution of the
European Jewish Problem....
In the course of this final solution of the European Jewish
Problem, approximately 11 million Jews are involved. They are
distributed among individual countries as follows:
A. Original Reich Territory [Altreich] 131,800
Austria 43,700
Eastern territories 420,000
Government General [Nazi occupied Poland] 2,284,000
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The Netherlands 160,800
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Rumania, including Bessarabia 342,000
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Hungary 742,800
USSR 5,000,000
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White Russia, excluding Bialystok 446,484
[Many countries deleted for brevity]
TOTAL over 11,000,000
Under proper direction the Jews should now in the course of the
Final Solution be brought to the East in a suitable way for use as
labor. In big labor gangs, with separation of the sexes, the Jews
capable of work are brought to these areas and employed in road
building, in which task undoubtedly a great part will fall out
through natural diminution.
The remnant that finally is able to survive all this - since this
is undoubtedly the part with the strongest resistance - must be
treated accordingly since these people, representing a natural
selection, are to be regarded as the germ cell of a new Jewish
development. (See the experience of history).
In the program of the practical execution of the Final Solution,
Europe is combed through from the West to the East.
The claims often made by Holocaust deniers about emigration of Jews
after the war are preposterous. For instance, there were 370,000
Jews in Palestine in 1937, and 600,000 in 1948. The numbers arrived
at by the Anglo-American committee for studying the Holocaust are the
following:
(Conclusions of the Anglo-American committee for studying the Nazi
genocide inflicted on the Jews of Europe, with exact breakdown,
country by country.)
Numbers of missing Jews (post-war minus pre-war):
Germany - 195,000
Austria - 53,000
Czechoslovakia - 255,000
Denmark - 1,500
France - 140,000
Belgium - 57,000
Luxemburg - 3,000
Norway - 1,000
Holland - 120,000
Italy - 20,000
Jugoslavia - 64,000
Greece - 64,000
Bulgaria - 5,000
Rumania - 530,000
Hungary - 200,000
Poland - 3,271,000
USSR - 1,050,000
Less dispersed refugees (308,000)
Total number of Jews that were exterminated = 5,721,500
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Some estimates are lower, and some are higher, but these are the
magnitudes in question. Recent evidence shows that the number of
ex-USSR victims was actually underestimated.
About 6 million non-Jewish civilians were killed by the Nazis -
mostly in Poland and Yugoslavia.
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