How many Jews a minute?

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[–]neolib 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

2.2? But do they count those who died from hunger/diseases as part of 6mil number? Some number of jews would die just because of general war/concentration camp conditions.

UPD Ok, here's kind of official answer:

In the 1961 testimony, Hoettl recalled how “Eichmann … told me that, according to his information, some 6,000,000 Jews had perished until then -- 4,000,000 in extermination camps and the remaining 2,000,000 through shooting by the Operations Units and other causes, such as disease, etc.”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-01-27/ty-article/6-million-where-is-the-figure-from/0000017f-da74-dea8-a77f-de761f480000

And also apparently ~ 1 million was killed on USSR territory, so not in camps:

Whereas the Jews of the countries of Europe occupied by the Germans were for the most part deported to death camps, where fairly good records were kept, the murders in the USSR were carried out by Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units), as the German army made its way east. Their records were far less comprehensive, so that it is possible only to make a rough estimate of the numbers of Jews killed – generally between 800,000 and 1 million.

[–]Alphix[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Poor neolib. Number formats differ between countries. In the USA they put a comma every 3 digits for legibility. So the number is 2281.

[–]neolib 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can't check these calculations yourself? 6 millions divided by 2 thousands would be 3 thousands (of minutes), do you think it's 5 years or what?

[–]Alphix[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I misread, that's all.