DEATH RATES

How many died of Natural Causes? How many died in the concentration camps,


German law of the time stipulate that all deaths in German concentration camps had to be registered with at least three Governmental Departments. Camp authorities were required to complete Registration forms and books containing Names, Dob, date of birth, Nationality, reason for their internment and cause of death. Copies of the books were kept in Amt D, Office D, in Oraniennurg, some 27 km north of Berlin, and were taken away by the Russians in 1945.

Copies of these books were later handed to the Red Cross in Arolsen, a town some 35 km west of the city of Kassel, and in 1984 the Red Cross published an up-dated summary of all deaths that occurred in German concentration camps. The total number comes to 282,077 with a few minor lists still missing. The scan above is a copy of a letter issued by the Red Cross in Arolsen.

According to Allied Doctors who carried out autopsies on many of the deceased in the camps immediately after the German surrender, most of the people in the camps died of contagious diseases.

Jewish people made up less that 1/3 of the total number of people in the camps. (Some camps had many thousands, some camps only a few hundred).

 

 

 

A Photo of Jewish Gravestones in a Hamburg cemetery 1999. Jewish gravestones were not destroyed by the Nazis, but these headstones beg the question 'How many Jewish people died during the Nazi period, of natural causes?' According to Polish Governmental sources, in the years just before WW2 the natural death rate in Poland generally was around 2,1% annually . In the part of Europe which was occupied by Germany, before and during the war the Jewish population can be accurately established to 2,9 million. See my letter "Number of Jews in the World before and after WW2". The Nazis believed it to be approx 11 million people If we use that figure, then approx. 61.000. Jewish people must have died in Europe annually, of purely natural causes. The war lasted almost 5 years and 8 months, equal to 5, 67 years. If we take 5,67 and multiply the 61,000 = 346,000 or three hundred and forty-six thousand Jewish people in Europe would have died of purely natural causes during the time the Nazis were in power. But have you ever heard anyone say. 'My Grandparents died in the war of natural causes?' Me neither!


Hamburg Ohlsdorf cemetery 1999. A mass grave holding the remains of some of the 37.000 civilians burnt to death in a few nights of senseless fire-bombing raids over Hamburg in 1943. The British had already begun practising bombing cities in 1935, at a time when Germany had no heavy bombers at all. More bombs were dropped on Berlin on one day, than fell on the whole of Great Britain throughout WW2. And to put things in perspective. More people died in a few nights of bombing of Dresden, than died of all causes in all German concentration camps in 12 years ( between 300.000- 600.000) burnt to death!

 

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