• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    From an essay about Auschwitz, written by [Rudolf Höss,] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Höss?wprov=sfla1) the commandant of Auschwitz, written after his capture:

    "I myself never knew the total number, and I have nothing to help me arrive at an estimate.

    I can only remember the figures involved in the larger actions, which were repeated to me by Eichmann or his deputies.

    From Upper Silesia and the General Gouvernement 250,000

    Germany and Theresienstadt 100,000

    Holland 95,000

    Belgium 20,000

    France 110,000

    Greece 65,000

    Hungary 400,000

    Slovakia 90,000 [Total 1,130,000]

    I can no longer remember the figures for the smaller actions, but they were insignificant by comparison with the numbers given above. I regard a total of 2.5 million as far too high. Even Auschwitz had limits to its destructive capabilities."

    Even THE FUCKING COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ, writing no doubt in his own defense while awaiting trial, basically said “Oh, I couldn’t have possibly murdered more than 1.13 million people at my personal death factory!”

    What a Nazi fucking prick. Both of them.