Auschwitz-Victim-Numbers - official sources of information Figures

31.12.1945

French Investigation Panel on Nazi-War-Crimes

8.000.000

19.08.1998

Chief Rabbi of Poland - Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany

6.000.000

20.04.1978

Le Monde - French daily

5.000.000

23.01.1995

Die Welt - German daily

5.000.000

20.04.1989

Eugen Kogon, Der SS-Staat - famous book of a holocaust survivor, p. 176

4.500.000

31.12.1952

Der Neue Herder - Enzyklopedia, Germany, 7th edition, p. 214

4.500.000

01.10.1946

IMT-Document 008-USSR - Nuremberg Military Tribunal

4.000.000

02.05.1997

USA-Today - daily

4.000.000

24.11.1989

Chief Prosecutor, Mr. Majorowsky, Wuppertal, Germany - indictment 12 Js 1037/89

4.000.000

26.07.1990

Allgemeine Jüdische Wochen Zeitung - Jewish weekly, Bonn

4.000.000

08.10.1993

ZDF-Nachrichten - German TV, ZDF-News Magazine

4.000.000

25.01.1995

Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung - German daily

4.000.000

01.10.1946

IMT-Document 3868-PS - Nuremberg Military Tribunal

3.000.000

01.01.1995

Damals - official monthly magazine on history, sponsored by German government

3.000.000

18.07.1990

The Peninsula Times - daily, San Francisco, USA

2.000.000

25.07.1990

Hamburger Abendblatt - German daily

2.000.000

27.01.1995

Die Welt - German daily paper, quoting Chancellor H. Kohl. Minimum of 2 million

2.000.000

02.05.1997

USA-Today - daily paper USA

1.500.000

11.06.1992

Allgemeine Jüdische Wochen Zeitung - Jewish weekly, Bonn

1.500.000

08.10.1993

ZDF-Nachrichten - German TV, ZDF-News Magazine

1.500.000

23.01.1995

Die Welt - German daily

1.500.000

03.05.2000

Die Welt - German daily

1.500.000

01.09.1989

Le Monde - French daily

1.433.000

02.02.1995

BUNTE Illustrierte - German weekly magazine

1.400.000

22.01.1995

Welt am Sonntag - German daily, Sunday edition

1.200.000

27.01.1995

Die Welt - German daily

1.100.000

27.01.1995

IfZ - Institut for Contemporary History, München, a government institution

1.000.000

03.05.2000

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - German daily

1.000.000

31.12.1989

J C Pressac, Auschwitz, Technique ...Auschwitz report, Beate Klarsfeld Foundation

928.000

27.09.1993

Die Welt -German daily

800.000

22.01.1995

Welt am Sonntag - German daily, Sunday edition

750.000

01.05.1994

Focus - German weekly magazine

700.000

23.01.1995

Die Welt - German daily

700.000

31.12.1994

Pressac, Die Krematorien ... - 2nd Auschwitz report, Beate Klarsfeld Foundation

470.000

08.01.1948

Welt im Film - British newsreel, No. 137

300.000

06.01.1990

Frankfurter Rundschau - German daily paper

74.000

31.05.1994

Hoffmann, Stalins Vernichtungskrieg - on Stalin's war by German historian, p.302 f.

74.000

17.08.1994

Intern. Red Cross, Arolsen - Department of Holocaust investigations,Ref. No.:10824

66.206

01.05.2002

Fritjof Meyer, 'The Number of Victims of Auschwitz, New Insights due to new Findings in the Archives, in: Osteuropa, Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens - essentially decommissions Krema II as a killing centre and places it in a fictitious 'farm house'.

500.000

350,000 gassed in Bunker II