vetala: MareGaea's statement about the number of Polish victims in Auchwitz I gave the numbers as they were shown in the documentary I watched and they claim it's from all pssbl sources taken. That's all. It was just the next one in a line of educated guesses, like this one:
In 1983, French scholar George Wellers was one of the first to use German data on deportations to estimate the number killed at Auschwitz, arriving at 1.613 million dead, including 1.44 million Jews and 146,000 Catholic Poles.[44] A larger study started later by Franciszek Piper used timetables of train arrivals combined with deportation records to calculate 960,000 Jewish deaths and 140,000-150,000 ethnic Polish victims, along with 23,000 Roma and Sinti (Gypsies).[45] This number has met with "significant, though not complete" agreement among scholars.[46] In general it's not pssbl to exactly state how many ppl died at Auschwitz, because the Nazis destroyed part of their bookkeeping. However, the number of Jews perished there can safely established at a million, while indeed the number of Poles is higher at 150.000, but the documentary mentions explicitely 21.000 Polish political prisoners, not the average Piotr. I do agree that it's a lot ppl for one place, but then again, Auschwitz was unique in so many ways :(
Edit: I still remember Joepilsudski's statement that the most probable number of Jewish deaths in Auschwitz lay around 47.000. But we all know that Joe is a bit confused.:)
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