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The Great Numbers Game

For decades, the former German Concentration Camp at Auschwitz has traditionally been the site of huge slaughters of European Jewry. Millions of Jewish prisoners, according to accepted belief, were shipped to this camp in eastern Germany and there gassed and cremated. In 1945, the advancing Soviet army seized all of the official records of the SS camp system located at Oranienbaum north of Berlin. These records, which became public after the fall of the Communist system, give monthly reports of all the camps from 1935 through the beginning of 1945. Every month, the camp commandants made full reports to the camp administration headquarters. These reports were also sent by radio to Berlin and duly intercepted by British Intelligence listening posts. These written reports contain the monthly figures of all inmates in the camps; those who entered, those who died and those who were transferred. The reports were broken down by age, sex, ethnic origins and offense for which each inmate was incarcerated. Since Auschwitz is the camp singled out as the “Death Camp,” the following lists taken directly from the original German documents paint an entirely different picture from conventional beliefs. The records of the German Reichsbann or State Railway System, now in the German State Archives in Koblenz, Germany, dovetail exactly with the official SS camp records and fully support these figures. Referred to earlier, the British Intelligence intercepts, specifically from Auschwitz, also support the official German records which show with great clarity that there were indeed massive death tolls of all classes of inmates at the camp but that almost all of them were caused by raging typhus epidemics and not by gassings.
Non-Jewish Prisoners Entering Auschwitz 1940 May 70 June 1225 July 147 Aug 1156 Sept 1873 Oct 471 Nov 637 Dec 1190 __________ 6769 1941 Jan 1691 Feb 1339 Mar 221 Apr 4051 May 1793 June 731 July 1925 Aug 473 Sept 785 Oct 7191 Nov 1215 Dec 1217 ___________ 22632 1942 Jan 843 Feb 1508 Mar 1071 Apr 1817 May 1881 June 2583 July 3493 Aug 3106 Sept 1628 Oct 2952 Nov 2507 Dec 3172 __________ 26561 1943 Jan 9474 Feb 4065 Mar 15618 Apr 7346 May 4868 June 3368 July 4942 Aug 5282 Sept 4531 Oct 8179 Nov 3676 Dec 4961 _______________________ 76310 1944 Jan 1767 Feb 1052 Mar 573 Apr 5971 May 2097 June 1412 July 1368 Aug 6890 Sept 4604 Oct 674 Nov 1854 Dec 1251 ___________ 29513 Total Non-Jews in Auschwitz, 1940-1944 161,785	Jewish Prisoners Entering Auschwitz 1941-1944 1941 July 171 Nov 1 Dec 6 _________ 178 1942 Mar 1166 Apr 6762 May 1000 June 3004 July 9736 Aug 3518 Sept 3419 Oct 5990 Nov 4146 Dec 4742 __________ 43483 1943 Jan 6076 Feb 2507 Mar 9037 Apr 5054 May 2453 June 2520 July 4201 Aug 13382 Sept 7990 Oct 1624 Nov 3921 Dec 7180 __________ 65945 1944 Jan 1445 Feb 1299 Mar 1178 Apr 3175 May 18927 June 8438 July 12924 Aug 12705 Sept 2126 Oct 1177 ___________ 63394 Total Jews in Auschwitz, 1941-1944 173,000 Total number of inmates in Auschwitz, 1940-1944 334,785
Total Typhoid Deaths in Auschwitz, 1941-1944 1941 Oct 2128 Nov 5084 Dec 2585 __________ 9797 1942 Jan 1776 Feb 1515 Mar 3018 Apr 1392 May 2911 June 3688 July 4124 Aug 4968 Sept 1497 Oct 6092 Nov 103 Dec 1023 __________ 32107 1943 Jan 2123 Feb 2979 Mar 4604 Apr 2835 May 2378 June 2980 July 3438 Aug 2633 Sept 2901 Oct 3549 Nov 4621 Dec 4679 ____________ 39720 1944 Jan 2801 Feb 1933 Mar 2321 Apr 1771 May 981 June 1575 July 1121 Aug 1847 Sept 3313 Oct 3095 Nov 927 Dec 120 ___________ 21805 Total deaths by typhus in Auschwitz, 1941-1944 103,429	Jewish Typhoid Deaths in Auschwitz, 1942-1944 1942 Jan 875 Feb 906 Mar 1789 Apr 875 May 1991 June 2406 July 3090 Aug 3271 Sept 919 Oct 4789 Nov 29 Dec 621 ___________ 21561 1943 Jan 1502 Feb 1729 Mar 3981 Apr 895 May 1721 June 1990 July 2017 Aug 968 Sept 1803 Oct 2705 Nov 3219 Dec 2842 ___________ 25372 1944 Jan 1429 Feb 876 Mar 1312 Apr 632 May 407 June 884 July 455 Aug 1129 Sept 1871 Oct 1294 Nov 927 Dec 91 ___________ 11398 Total Jewish deaths by typhus in Auschwitz, 1942-1944 58,331 Total non-Jewish deaths by typhus in Auschwitz, 1940-1944 45,207
Deaths by natural causes in Auschwitz, 1940-1944 1940 May 6 June 23 July 15 Aug 35 Sept 9 Oct 21 Nov 34 Dec 30 _______________ 173 1941 Jan 142 Feb 175 Mar 165 Apr 9 May 47 June 19 July 5 Aug 11 Sept 23 Oct 2 Nov 39 Dec 48 ____________ 685 1942 Jan 120 Feb 77 Mar 42 Apr 39 May 23 June 21 July 16 Aug 5 Sept 19 Oct 25 Nov 49 Dec 61 __________ 497 1943 Jan 103 Feb 221 Mar 198 Apr 89 May 62 June 56 July 31 Aug 38 Sept 96 Oct 102 Nov 235 Dec 197 _________ 1625 1944 Jan 120 Feb 191 Mar 178 Apr 167 May 155 June 151 July 98 Aug 65 Sept 54 Oct 67 Nov 94 Dec 17 _______ 1374 Death by natural causes, 1940-1944 4,354	Transfers from Auschwitz, 1940-1944 1940 Oct 11 1941 Jan 657 Feb 8 April 1002 May 36 June 4 __________ 1707 1942 Feb 196 Mar 275 Apr 158 May 423 June 1845 July 753 __________ 3650 1943 Mar 3001 Apr 1024 Aug 3195 Sept 600 Oct 4544 Nov 3500 Dec 333 ___________ 16197 1944 Jan 612 Feb 2060 Mar 881 Apr 2500 May 7923 June 9228 July 15628 Aug 8957 Sept 9091 Oct 33244 Nov 8309 Dec 1455 __________ 99948 Total transferred from Auschwitz, 1940-1944 121,513
Transfers of Jews from Auschwitz, 1941-1944 1941 Jan 271 Apr 459 May 17 ________ 747 1942 Feb 120 Mar 37 Apr 30 May 112 June 873 July 120 __________ 1292 1943 Mar 1572 Apr 630 Aug 2871 Sept 395 Oct 3201 Nov 3264 Dec 173 __________ 12106 1944 Jan 409 Feb 1843 Mar 410 Apr 1927 May 7540 June 8109 July 13765 Aug 7501 Sept 8502 Oct 28509 Nov 7322 Dec 761 __________ 86598 Total number of Jews transferred from Auschwitz, 1941-1944 100,743	Administrative Executions at Auschwitz, 1940-1943 1940 Nov 22 40 Poles __________________ Poles 40 Jews 0 1941 Jan 3 1 Pole July 3 80 Poles Aug 1 1 Jew Nov 14 151 Poles Dec 1 1 Pole Dec 20 5 Poles ________________ Poles 238 Jews 1 1942 Jan 24 1 Russian Apr 3 11 Poles May 27 150 Poles May 28 1 Jew June 4 3 Jews June 9 3 Jews June 10 13 Poles June 11 3 Jews June 12 60 Poles, 2 Jews June 13 6 Jews June 15 200 Poles June 16 2 Poles, 2 Jews June 18 8 Jews June 19 50 Poles, 4 Jews, 4 Czechs June 20 4 Jews June 22 3 Jews June 23 3 Jews June 25 40 Poles, 1 Jew June 26 4 Jews June 27 2 Poles,3 Jews June 29 15 Jews July 1 9 Jews July 2 10 Poles, 2 Jews July 14 9 Poles July 16 50 Poles July 20 2 Jews July 23 14 Poles July 29 11 Jews Aug 11 1 Pole Aug 13 60 Poles Aug 18 57 Poles Aug 21 1 Jew Sept 5 3 Poles Sept 25 3 Poles Nov 9 1 Pole Nov 14 1 Pole Nov 17 9 Poles, 2 Russians Dec 4 5 Poles ____________________________________________ Poles 751 Jews 90 Russians 3 Czechs 4 1943 Jan 6 9 Poles, 5 Jews Jan 14 6 Poles Jan 25 22 Poles Jan 26 7 Poles, 2 Jews Feb 7 2 Poles Feb 9 2 Poles, 1 Jew Feb 13 16 Poles Feb 19 11 Poles, 3 Jews Mar 17 1 Pole Apr 3 26 Poles Apr 13 2 Gypsies May 22 13 Poles, 6 Jews, 5 Gypsies May 31 1 Gypsy June 10 20 Poles June 25 68 Poles June 28 30 Poles July 24 1 Pole July 28 4 Poles Aug 20 38 Poles Sept 4 45 Poles, 8 Russians Sept 21 2 Poles Sept 28 9 Poles, 6 Jews, 12 Gypsies, 1 Czech Oct 11 54 Poles Nov 9 50 Poles _________________________________________________ Poles 436 Jews 23 Russians 8 Gypsies 20 Czechs 2 Total number of inmates executed: 1616 Total Poles executed: 1465 Total Jews executed: 114 Total Russians executed: 11 Total Gypsies executed: 20 Total Czechs executed: 6
Total of Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz, May, 1944-October, 1944 May 8548 June 3981 July 6543 Aug 3881 Sept 163 Oct 1 ____________ 23134 Total number of Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz, May-October, 1944 23,134 Note: Number of Hungarian Jews claimed sent to Auschwitz, May-October,1944: Lucy Dawidowicz. The War Aganist the Jews, New York, 1975. 450,000 Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, New York, 1985. 180,000 Hungarian Jews transferred from Auschwitz, May-October, 1944 May 2963 June 5934 July 9630 Aug 1500 Sept 1300 Oct 200 __________ 21527 Total number of Hungarian Jews entering Auschwitz, May-October, 1944, 23,134 Total number of Hungarian Jews transferred from Auschwitz, May-October, 1944 21,527 Total number of Hungarian Jews remaining in Auschwitz after October, 1944 1,607
Note: When the SS evacuated the Auschwitz work camp complex at the end of December, 1944, they left a large number of prisoners behind. Many of these were too old or too sick to travel and they were left in their barracks, guarded by a Polish militia that had been raised earlier by Hans Frank, the head of the Government General (as occupied Poland was termed by the Germans.) With the approach of the Soviet army in early 1945, these Polish guards indiscriminately attacked the barracks with the prisoners inside, using hand grenades and machineguns. Although exact figures are not available, several existing Soviet military reports put the death toll between 7,000 and 10,000. Former members of the Polish militia have claimed that many of the dead were shot down by Russian troops as they attempted to exit the liberated camp. The truth of this matter will never be known but at least this is an atrocity that cannot be blamed on the Germans who were hundreds of miles away at the time. How many of the 1,607 Hungarian Jewish deportees remaining in Auschwitz died in this Slavic holocaust is not known.