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by wickedwillie on January 18th, 2004

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How many people were killed in the Nazi concentration camps?

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  • by Arisztid on April 2nd, 2008

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    11 - 12 million dead is the recorded number. However, that is incorrect.

    I shall give you one example of ONE (out of many) incorrect number:

    The recorded dead of the Gypsies is 500,000. That is an incorrect number. The reason it is incorrect is that we were, more often than not, not registered in the Camps with anything but a checkmark or an "x". The only people who go into the calculation of 500,000 are the ones who are recorded by name. The real number of Gypsies killed in the Camps is more like 1.5 to 2 million or more.

    That, right there, makes the official figure of the dead in the Camps incorrect. Take this a bit further:

    How many others were recorded with just a checkmark or an "x"? We do not know. How many were not even recorded with an "x" or a checkmark? Say, the ones that Nazi Germany wanted to disappear with no record of them. Maybe political dissidents?

    Here is another problem with the official numbers of the dead in the Holocaust: Germany tried to obliterate many of the Camps when they knew that the Allies were going to win. They succeeded with some of the Camps. Not only were the camps obliterated but the RECORDS of the camps were likewise obliterated.

    How many dead have been forgotten due to wiping out these records?

    Just take the addition of the Gypsies and you can stick another 2 million plus to the total number. Take the camps that were successfully destroyed and add how many?

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  • by wickedwillie on January 23rd, 2004

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    Six million Jews were systematicly annihilated by the Nazi regime during World War 2, most of them in concentration camps. In 1933 approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during the war. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed.
    The European Jews were the primary victims of the Holocaust, but they were not the only group singled out for persecution by Hitler’s Nazi regime. As many as one-half million Gypsies, at least 250,000 mentally or physically disabled persons, and more than three million Soviet prisoners-of-war also fell victim to Nazi genocide. Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Social Democrats, Communists, partisans, trade unionists, Polish intelligentsia and other undesirables were also victims of the hate and aggression carried out by the Nazis.

    Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning.

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 31st, 2008

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    Any more than zero was too many. The fact that it was millions is just a horror beyond contemplation.

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  • by Volubrjotr on February 2nd, 2009

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    There were over 4 Million Catholics murdered by Nazis. Catholics were specifically targeted by Hitler well before WWII starting in the 1930s. The Jews suffered close to 6 million and the Catholics suffered close to 5 million. This is the main reason the Jewish people never attempted to disguise themselves as Catholics during this time. The Catholics did in other countries have immunity but suffered a great deal when caught hiding their Jewish brethren.

    In my home state one of our own Catholic Priests was suffered to swallow nitric acid while he had to watch the Nazis shoot family in front of him. They were of course all Catholic. He suffered from a raspy voice all his life but continued to draw the Lord thru Holy Communion for the remainder of his life.

    May God Rest His Soul...

    OBTW/ Wiki_answers is a front for brazenly rewriting history to fit secular ideology.

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  • by kayy on May 14th, 2008

    kayy

    how many people were killed completely. i'm doing a school report about auschwitz and really need to know. like all of the people including jews catholics. i need it all please.

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  • by stryder on March 2nd, 2006

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    There are a number of estimates of the number of victims of the holocaust. Most of the sources agree that it was more than 6 million people.

    Every method that can be imagined was utilized at one point in time or another. Firing squads were used, but the SS felt that the costs of bullets was too high to be efficient. They tried poison gases, including Zyklon-B, which is a very effective lethal gas. Inmates were also used as test subjects for Nazi doctors who would toss people into freezing water to see how they reacted to cold. They really didn't care whether they lived or died, they just needed the test subject.

    There were horrible tests performed on many of the inmates. If you want to get a sense of some of the methods used, go to the web site for the National Holocaust Museum in Washington. I haven't been there, but I did get to tour several of the death camps when I lived in Europe as a kid, so I don't need a museum to show me how bad they were. I was able to meet many of the survivors, and the stories are beyond belief.

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  • by Alatea on March 6th, 2006

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    Gassing, firing squads, experimentation, torture and starvation are a few of the methods Hitler used in his death “camps”. Terror was out of control and not only in the camps but everywhere. Hitler was a terrorist who instilled fear in every corner of the Earth. No one knows for certain how many died in the camps but estimates reach 5 to 6 million.

    There were millions of victims outside of the camps too and with his collaborators Hitler did a systematic extermination of many non-Jewish groups. Hitler basically targeted anyone including handicapped people or religious protestors. There was no stopping his hatred and today the horror the Jews endured is remembered but many tend to forget about the Czechs, Serbs, Greeks, Gypsies, British, Norwegians, Australians, Ukrainians, United States, Russians, Dutch, Italians, French, Poles and Canadians who died fighting this war. The numbers of civilian and military deaths shook the world. There are many more countries to be mentioned here. There are reports that 1.3 million men, women and children were murdered in outdoor massacres. Reports show that directly or indirectly Hitler murdered a total of 20 – 50 million people.

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  • by bugsbunny3007 on March 31st, 2008

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    11.590.000 people died in the Concentration Camps. 5.980.000 Jews, (of which 3.000.000 were Polish Jews), 3.000.000 Non Jewish Poles. 1.800.000 Soviet Prisoners of War, 250.000 Gypsies. The other 560,000 were made up of European (Non Soviet)Communists, as well as Socialists, Social Democrats, Liberals, Homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses, Freemasons, Mentally Handicapped, Physically Handicapped, and so called German/Austrian "criminals". So called because most were made up of people who were unafraid, or foolhardy, to speak out against Nazi attrocities. These would include German/Austrian Catholic and Lutheran Bishops and clergy, Trade Unionists, Austrians who publically stood up against Anchluss. And Freethinkers everywhere.

    Anyone who denies this ever happened will have to answer to a Greater Judge to any that sit upon this Earth.

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  • by sydney484 on June 21st, 2010

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    i did some maths there were about 20,000 concentration and death camps ln occupied countries so multyply 20,0000 by 4 (1940 to 1945) x 365 = about 32 million if only one a day died and we Know Dacau was Opened in 1933 12 years

    and in the summer of 1942 500,000 were murdered according to Rudolf Hoss

    and at the 2 camps in Croatia at Jasenovac and Sajmiste about 700,000 died

    and the total for the war in Europe is estimated at 62 million

    the problems with the exact Numbers is the NAZIS never counted people that died on the way to the camps or on death marches

    and in 2009 there was a new mass grave found in Poland

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