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

On Auschwitz

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The Soviet Commission's Method to Calculate the Number of Victims of Auschwitz

The Soviet Commission adopted a method to calculate the number of victims based on the efficiency of the crematoria. "I don't think that such methods could give us real results," says Hösakción. Many bodies as we estimate today might have been about 40% were burned in piles of woods, he adds.

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