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"On Auschwitz" (16): The research on the number of victims of the camp

On Auschwitz

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The Overestimation of Auschwitz Victims

Eichmann testified initially that almost 4 million people died in Auschwitz. Rüdolchers later changed his opinion about the number, saying it was highly over-inslative. Historians from a Jewish Historical Commission estimated there would be more or less 1.3 to 1.5 million of victims.

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