And yet we only hear about the 6 million Jews.

Stop lying.

Lol at you believing the holohoax was real.

Lemme guess, "the holocaust never happened, but if it did, it did not go far enough"?

Red cross said an estimated 100,000 died and found zero evidence of those shower rooms.

That's sad, you cant even remember the misinformation from your white supremacist memes correctly.

 

What was claimed: Official International Red Cross records reveal the actual Concentration Camp total death during World War II toll was 271,301.

 

Our verdict: Incorrect. The documents managed by the International Committee of the Red Cross only recorded a fraction of the Holocaust death count. They do not in any way dispute the official death toll of six million.

 

An anti-Semitic viral article posted on Facebook claimed that Red Cross documentation showed 271,000 people died in Nazi concentration camps, rather than the widely accepted figure of around six million.

In fact the documentation from 1979 shows the number of death certificates that had been issued for prisoners in 13 Nazi concentration camps. The number of death certificates represents only a fraction of the total death toll for various reasons.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told us: “The ICRC accepts the Holocaust as fact and does not dispute in any way the official number of lives that were lost.”

 

Where do the figures come from?

 

The ITS told us that the number of death certificates are “anything but comprehensive” as a measure of the total death count during the Holocaust.

 

These death certificates can only be issued when there is documentation detailing how individual victims died. This is rarely available for a number of reasons.

 

Firstly, records were not necessarily kept for each prisoner. The ICRC told us: “Those who were sent straight to their deaths at concentration camps were not registered at all.”

 

Also camps were not the only place of Nazi mass murder during the war. Many were shot by Nazi mobile SS and police units.

 

Secondly, where camp records were initially kept, much was destroyed in the lead up to liberation at the end of the war, in order to cover up proof of the crimes committed.

 

Where records still exist, the death certificates issued by the Special Registry Office only relate to a small number of camps. The 1979 document lists 13 camps. The ITS told us there were “well over 1,200” sites of imprisonment and murder throughout Nazi Europe.

 

Gee, too bad the meme made no mention about there being well over 1,200 concentration camps throughout Europe.

For these and other reasons, the number of death certificates issued in no way resembles the total number of people murdered in the Holocaust.

 

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