[parts 1-2 not
copied] INTERROGATION REPORT No
21 3. The Extermination of European
Jews Preamble.
This information was received from SS Sturmbannfuehrer
Dr HOETTL, Amt VI E, RSHA. (see also Third US Army
Interrogation Reports 10, 15, 16, and 18; and Special
Interrogation Reports 1 and 2.) Report to
HIMMLER. During autumn 1944, SS
Obersturmbannfuehrer EICHMANN was requested to submit
to HIMMLER a tally of the number of Jews exterminated.
EICHMANN who had handled the deportation of Jews from
the Reich and the Occupied Territories, had not had
jurisdiction over the extermination squads
(Vernichtungskommandos), nor did he have access to
their records. EICHMANN estimated that 4,000,000 Jews
had been killed in gas chambers and by other means of
mass execution. This figure did not take into account
those who had perished in the concentration camps or
in progroms [sic] ostensibly designated as
military actions (for instance, the progrom in the
WARSAW ghetto). EICHMANN also estimated that
approximately 2,000,000 Jews had been killed during
the occupation of POLAND and RUSSIA by Sonderkommandos
whose jobs were to pacify rear areas. HIMMLER's
Reply. This total of 6,000,000 casualties found no
favor with HIMMLER. Ho replied indicating that his own
estimate was well above that figure, and promising to
send the director of his statistical bureau to revise
EICHMANN's computations. HOETTL does not know whether
a final figure was ever reached. King,
Major for KOCH
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