A new study shows that nearly a quarter of the estimated six million Holocaust victims in just three months was murdered. From August to October 1942 were eur 1.47 million European jews killed in the nazi death camps. That corresponds to an almost unthinkable to 15,000 people per day.
The figures come from a new study under the leadership of Lewi Stone, a mathematical biologist at Tel Aviv University and RMIT University in Australia. He used detailed reports of the Holocaust-the trains that reason, in the strict times. Stone said at the American magazine Newsweek that he was “completely shocked” by the figures.
“Which show that the nazis, the annihilation of the jewish population from nazi occupied Poland in the shortest possible time, had in mind,” says Stone. “The fact that the massacre took place in such a short time, had the jewish people not stand a chance and was the formation of organized resistance very difficult.”
Even worse than the genocide in Rwanda
Stone also discovered that the moordratio during the entire Holocaust is still ten times higher than initially calculated in previous studies. Still choquerender: nearly 25 percent of all victims were murdered between August and October 1942. The researcher compared the figure with genocide in Rwanda, where in 1994 in three months ‘ time, an estimated 800,000 people were killed, and stated the moordratio during those three months of the Holocaust is still 83 percent higher.
In total, there were 480 journeys from 393 different Polish cities place, destined for extermination camps such as Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. Those three camps were used for mass destruction, and there was so the majority of the jewish victims murdered. “With few exceptions, were the victims to the death camps were transported very quickly upon arrival in the gas chambers and murdered. The system by the nazis was perfected, became the characteristics of an assembly line,” says Stone on Newsweek .
Stone estimates that the moordcampagne of the nazis had been able to continue if there is still more potential victims had lived in the by Germany occupied Poland. “The number of murders declined in november 1942, because there is no one more was to kill,” said Stone.
