Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Genocide Research
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,2 (2004) 249-266
Keywords:
Meyer, Fritjof
;
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
In an article published in the German journal "Osteuropa" (May 2002), Fritjof Meyer argued that the actual number of victims of murder in Auschwitz was 500,000 rather than 1,100,000, the number estimated by Franciszek Piper and accepted by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Meyer reduces the number of non-Hungarian deportees to Auschwitz to 735,000, and that of Hungarian deportees to only 180,000. He states that the crematoria did not have sufficient capacity to burn the number of victims who are known to have perished. Meyer also attacks the testimony and memoirs of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss. Rejects Meyer's arguments, stating that he ignores many important witness accounts on the ratio of unregistered prisoners among the deportees and on the cremations of bodies in open air. Contends that Meyer misread some documents, and that his disbelief of statements made by Höss is unfounded.
Note:
Reaction to Meyer's article "Die Zahl der Opfer von Auschwitz; neue Erkenntnisse durch neue Archivfunde" ("Osteuropa", May 2002).
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