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Deaths at Auschwitz (340 000 plaque)

Translation: During the period of this camp’s existence 405,222 prisoners — men, women and children — were entered in the books. Of this number, around 340,000 persons perished at Auschwitz and in the other camps.

Photo source: Bildungswerk Deutscher
Zeitgeschichte, Germany

"Am 5. Juni 1985 war das BDZ zwecks
Quellenstudien in Auschwitz und in Birkenau.

"Im Stammlager Auschwitz I haben wir im Saal 6 des sogenannten "Todesblock" (Block Smirci), an der
Rückwand die umseitige [obige] viersprachige
Wandtafel fotographiert.

"Der Text dieser Wandtafel läßt erhebliche Zweifel an der Glaubwürdigkeit der seither immer genannten Opferzahlen aufkommen.

Bildungswerk Deutscher Zeitgeschichte."

[Translation: On June 5, 1985 the BDZ (German
Contemporary Historical Educational Trust) was at Auschwitz
I and Birkenau to study source documents. In the main camp
Auschwitz I we photographed (above) a plaque on the rear wall of Room 6, the so called Death Block, reading in four languages. The text of this wall plaque gives rise to considerable doubt as to the credibility of the numbers of victims always cited since then.]

Website comment: It is not
known if the plaque has since been quietly removed. It
accords closely with the figure stated in the 1947 Krakau
trial of the principal Auschwitz criminals.

of
judgment in Polish (Krakau) trial of the Auschwitz
defendants, released January 8, 1948: “Altogether
nearly 300,000 people from the most different
nations died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.”
Text
and translation |

Dear Mr. Idiot, [writes Sergey
Romanov on ] as has been explained to you (and as the plaque itself clearly states), this number signifies only those registered in the camp; same with the Krakau trial. I don’t see how one can be so freakin’ dumb. The alternative is that you’re consciously and purposefully lying.

David Irving comments:

ROBUST language indeed. I am aware of that theory. But why commemorate only the “few” who were registered, and not the “many” who were not? Seems illogical, doesn’t it?

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