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The Holocaust and the Neo-Nazi Mythomania
© 1978, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
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Concentration Camps" at Oranienburg and/or from
Eichmann's service in Berlin.
5. The Korherr Report Completed
As we have seen, Korherr's statistics stop at the date of 3-31-43, at
the end of the first year of the deportations of the Jews which had begun in
March 1942, but continued for another year and a half. His data are thus very
partial; and we know that even for the periods chosen by Korherr they are
incomplete, at the very least in respect to the occupied regions of Russia. Yet
at the current time it is possible to complete them, notably for the following
four countries – France, Belgium, Holland and Hungary – always taking
as a basis the incontestable sources of the Nazi administration. There is no
doubt that if Korherr had continued his work as Himmler ordered, he would have
utilized these sources. It is plausible that the rest of the report that we
know today will eventually be discovered in the mass of documents of the SS
which still remain unstudied.
In fact, in France and in Belgium the
number of convoys of Jews deported and the number of persons that they carried
away are known; and this is true up to the liberation of these two countries in
the same way that we know them until 3-31-43 (26, 27, 46,
50, 52). As far as Holland is concerned, the archives of the Gestapo have
been found, notably those of 106,000 persons interned at the camp of Westerbork
and deported in 98 convoys, with the exclusion of 918 people liberated in 1945
as well as those of 5 convoys set out from Apeldoorn, Amsterdam and Vught (3
convoys). Among these 103 convoys, 67 were directed to Auschwitz, 19 to
Sobibor, 6 to Theresienstadt, 9 to Bergen-Belsen and 2 to Ravensbruck. The
total number of deportees is 105,000. This data was published through the good
offices of the Dutch Red Cross in four parts published in 1947, 48, 52 and 53
under the general title of "Auschwitz." Finally, the statistics concerning the
deportations of Jews from Hungary are known from the reports of the Ambassador
of the Third Reich to Budapest.
If one takes into account the figures
thus known, the Korherr report is completed in the following manner:
| Country |
Total number
of deportees |
Number of
deportees
appearing in
the
Korherr report |
Difference to be
added to the
Korherr
report |
| France |
75,721 (a) |
49,906 |
25,815 |
| Belgium |
25,437 (b) |
18,502 |
6,935 |
| Holland |
105,000 (c) |
52,403 |
52,597 |
| Hungary |
429,028 (d) |
– |
429,028 |
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| Total |
514,375 |
| Total of the Korherr report, more
than |
2,669,118 |
| New total, more than |
3,183,493 |
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