Auschwitz Concentration Camp Death Statistics
July 24th, 2009
Auschwitz.
The events surrounding perhaps the worst disaster known to mankind – World War II, are many and varied, not the least of which was the Holocaust by the German people on the various minorities that they deemed unsuitable for the purposes of their country. Many people forget the fact that not only the Jewish people were condemned, tortured, and subjected to many horrific phenomenon. However some of the facts in particular are in dispute, or rather not everyone agrees on just how many people died or in what fashion. No one argues that the events were horrific and demeaning, but what are the actual statistics regarding the deaths at concentration camps such as infamous Auschwitz?
If we take the Red Cross as a valid and legitimate source for all things Holocaust and statistical, certain facts emerge. For instance, according to Charles Biedermann of the Red Cross, the amount of names and death certificates for all the various individuals who died at Auschwitz add up to a number roughly lower than that of 400,000. Almost seventy five percent of these people were between the ages of 20 and 50. However, according to other sources there may have been anywhere from one million to the exceedingly large number of four million. The commander and authority in charge of the camp, Rudolf Höss admits to the deaths of at least two and a half million people.
The most disturbing lack of consistency in the statics of this massive failure of humanity is in the statistics that the Soviet government gathered on Auschwitz. According to Soviet sources, the numbers lower, in the realm of anywhere from seven thousand to ten thousand total deaths. As a wise man once said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”