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The 6 million figure includes Jewish soldiers killed in the various armies and those killed in other counties by their own fascist movements while under German occupation

No it doesn't. The figure of six million is for deaths in the concentration camps and summary executions and murders of civilians, excluding partisans and soldiers, and not including civilian collateral damage.

There is also something like an additional million Jews killed by the Croatian and Romanian fascist governments, independently of the Nazi Holocaust. They're not usually included in the figure of 6 million.

There weren't many Jews in Germany so if you only count them you get the lower figures. Most Jews killed were from Eastern Europe.

That is correct. By 1939 or so, there were only about 300,000 Jews left in Germany. Most of the rest had already fled.

Most of the Holocaust victims were from eastern Europe, especially Poland and the USSR.

To the 6 million Jewish victims, you can add another 9-11 million Poles, Russians, Slavs, gypsies and others.

  • There were almost 6 million Russian and other Soviet Union civilians killed (plus about 1.3 million Soviet Jews counted in the 6 million Jewish victims).
  • Plus about 3 million or so Soviet POWs.
  • Plus about 2-3 million non-Jewish Poles.
  • About half a million Serbs.
  • Perhaps the same again for Gypsies (Roma and Sinti).
  • A quarter of a million disabled and mentally ill people.
  • And maybe another hundred thousand or so of various other groups.