Auschwitz data from the Soviet Archives

[Mannstein]

I found this on the website: www.tbrnews.org last night. I'm new at revisionism but can anyone comment as to the legitimacy of these quoted figures from the Soviet Archives.

Official German Record of all Prisoners in Auschwitz Concentration Camp from May of 1940 through December of 1944
Prisoner records of Auschwitz camp from May, 1940 through December 1944 from the Glücks complete Concentration Camp microfilm records now located in the Russian Central Archives[1]
(Note: The attached statistical tables, concerning prisoners in Auschwitz camp from its inception to its closing, are taken directly from Soviet archival material, now available on microfilm from the former Soviet Central Archives. Also, a good deal of corroborative material from the German Archives concerning the German State Railways has been located in the German State Archives (Bundesarchiv) and utilized. The railroad was responsible for the transportation of inmates to and from concentration camps in the figures from the Russian files is accurately reflected in the Reichsbahn documents.)
Non Jewish Prisoners Entering Auschwitz 1940-1944
Total non-Jews in Auschwitz, 1940-1944: 161,685
Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286-1945: Frames 001-329.
Jewish Prisoners Entering Auschwitz 1941-1944
Total Jews in Auschwitz, 1941-1944: 173,000
Total number of inmates in Auschwitz, 1940-1944
334,785
Sources: CSA No. 187603: -Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852.
Total Typhus Deaths in Auschwitz, 1941-1944
Total deaths by typhus in Auschwitz, 1941-1944
103,447
Sources: CSA No. 187603: 1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286.
Jewish Typhus Deaths in Auschwitz, 1942-1944
Total Jewish deaths by typhus in Auschwitz, 1942-1944
58,240
Total non-Jewish deaths by typhus in Auschwitz, 1940-1944
45,207
Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852.
Deaths by natural causes (other than typhus) in Auschwitz, 1940-1944
Death by natural causes (other than typhus), 1940-1944
4,140
Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286.
Death by natural causes (other than typhus), Jews, Auschwitz, 1941-1944
Total Jewish deaths by natural causes (other than typhus), 1941-1944
2,064
Sources: CSA No. 187603: 1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286.
Transfers from Auschwitz, 1940-1944
Total transferred from Auschwitz, 1940-1944
121,453
Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852.
Transfers of Jews from Auschwitz, 1941-1944
Total number of Jews transferred from Auschwitz, 1941-1944
100,743
Sources: CSA No. 187603: 1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286.
Administrative Executions at Auschwitz, 1940-1944
Total number of inmates executed: 1359 Total Russians executed: 19
Total Gypsies executed: 19
Total Poles executed: 1208
Total Jews executed: 117
Total Czechs executed: 6
Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286
Total of Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz, May, 1944-October, 1944
Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286-1945: Frames 001-329.
Total number of Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz, May-October, 1944: 23,117
Note: Number of Hungarian Jews claimed sent to Auschwitz, May-October, 1944:
Lucy Dawidowicz. The War Against the Jews, New York, 1975.: 450,000
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, New York, 1985. 180,000
Hungarian Jews transferred from Auschwitz, May-October, 1944
Total number of Hungarian Jews entering Auschwitz, May-October, 1944: 23,117
Total number of Hungarian Jews transferred from Auschwitz, May-October, 1944: 21,527
Total number of Hungarian Jews remaining in Auschwitz after October, 1944: 1,590
Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286-1945: Frames 001-329
Summation: From July, 1941 through October, 1944
Total number of Jewish prisoners in the Auschwitz camp system: 173,000
Total number of Jewish prisoners who died of typhus: 58,240
Total number of Jewish prisoners who died of natural causes: 2,064
Total number of Jewish prisoners transferred to other camps: 100,743
Total number of Jewish prisoners executed: 117
Total number of Jewish prisoners remaining in camp after German evacuation on January 15, 1945: 11,839
Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286-1945: Frames 001-329.
When the SS evacuated the Auschwitz work camp complex in the middle of January 1945, they left a large number of prisoners, mostly Jewish, behind. Many of these were too old or too sick to travel and they were left in their barracks, guarded by a Polish militia that had been raised earlier by Hans Frank, the head of the Government General (as occupied Poland was termed by the Germans.) With the approach of the Soviet army in early 1945, these Polish guards indiscriminately attacked the barracks, with the prisoners inside, using hand grenades and machine guns.
The violent animosity of the Catholic Poles to their huge Jewish community is certainly well known. When the Russians invaded Poland in 1920, one of the greatest fears of the Polish leadership and the government was that the 500,000 Jewish residents of Warsaw’s Nalevski district would rise up against them in support of the advancing Bolshevik armies. Many Polish Jews fled after the failure of the Russian Bolshevik attack and a number of those left behind were promptly massacred by Poles when the central government collapsed after the German invasion of 1939.
Although exact figures of the dead among the remaining Auschwitz inmates in 1945 are not available, several existing Soviet military reports put the death toll between 7,000 and 10,000. Former members of the Polish militia have subsequently claimed that many of the dead were shot down by Russian troops as they attempted to exit the liberated camp.
The Russians did not like Jews either, remembering their savagery against them during the salad days of Josef Stalin.
The truth of this matter will never be known but at least this is an atrocity that cannot be blamed on the Germans who were hundreds of miles away at the time.
How many of the 1,590 Hungarian Jewish deportees remaining in Auschwitz died in this Slavic holocaust is not known.
Note: The complete list is too long to post here. Readers wishing a full copy of this may obtain it, gratis, by writing to Brian Harring [email protected] and requesting the Auschwitz list. Ed.

[Moderator]

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Thanks, M1

[Radar]

This record if it is what it seems to be would be a major blow to the Holocaust story. It seems to be the work of one Brian Harring. Is he known to revisionists here?

[Hannover]

It seems to me that we discussed this before, but nonetheless, I'm curious why none of the documents are scanned for viewing.

After Googling 'Brian Harring', it appears he is known for claiming that the number of GI's killed in Iraq are much greater than we've been told

Note: The complete list is too long to post here. Readers wishing a full copy of this may obtain it, gratis, by writing to Brian Harring [email protected] and requesting the Auschwitz list. Ed.

Anyone going to contact Mr. Harring?

- Hannover

[Bergmann]

I would say that the list is probably bogus, unless a couple of copies of the microfilms can be provided.

I went through something like this before, it was about the whereabouts of the Jews from the Reinhardt camps. When I asked repeatedly for some copies of the microfilms the poster waffled and finally disappeared.

[Haldan]

I sent Mr. Harring the following e-mail:

Dear Mr. Brian Harring,

I am sending you this e-mail to request the so-called "Auschwitz List" which were posted on www.tbrnews.org but had to be truncated due to its length.

Would it be possible to send this list to this writer? Would you also mind if I ask where you obtained this and if there are any scans of the original documents, or anything else which could give us more clues?

Thank you very much in advance.

Faithfully,
[DELETION]

-haldan

[ClaudiaRothenbach]

I received a word document with this text today from tbr.
I could foreward the document to an admin for providing over the web.

Operation Bloodstone

Operation Bloodstone was initially created by the U.S. Department of State in 1948. Its progenitor was George F. Kennan, department expert on Soviet concerns.

Its stated purpose was to thwart Soviet expansionism but its actual mandate was to create dissension within the newly-acquired territories of the Soviet Union, dissension that specifically included the fostering of armed rebellions by various ethnic groups.

In order to facilitate this, Kennan’s plan envisioned the use of any and all of the natural internal enemies of the Communist empire as well as the utilization of Stalin’s former enemies such as ex-Gestapo, SD and Abwehr agents, non-German entities such as the Croatian Ustacha, members of the Hungarian Arrow Cross party and many others.

Immediately after the war, when there was more cooperation with Soviet Russia, members of these agencies were, at the insistence of the Soviets, arrested, tried and often executed for their activities in conquered Russian territory.

In the German arena, many SD and Gestapo personnel, some formerly operatives at the highest levels of government, were clandestinely recruited for work against the Soviet Union. This recruitment was partially aided by use of the numerous wanted lists prepared at the end of the war.

The Gehlen organization, run initially by the U.S. Army and later entirely by the CIA under Colonel James Critchfield, was filled with such people. Other agencies recruited in their own fields of interest.

In one case, the U.S. Air Force sought and obtained the services of General Dr. Walter Schreiber, a Wehrmacht expert on communicable diseases to include bubonic plague and typhus. Schreiber, whose wartime activities in spreading these diseases among members of the Soviet military and civilian populations made him particularly desirable, was eventually exposed and had to leave America.

Bloodstone openly recruited anyone whom they felt would be of value, regardless of any existing allegations of war crimes by any entity, including Soviet Russia and the United States itself.

To an American President who had been subject to the same doses of wartime anti-German propaganda produced for the American public, Bloodstone officials found it necessary to explain, and in many cases, justify their actions.

The following report is specifically intended to address the wartime German concentration camp system in general and the stories of enormous, planned massacres of European Jews in specific.

This report is lengthy and often repetitious and, after an introduction, opens with a general overview of the German concentration camp system as it was perceived in 1948.

“I n t r o d u c t i o n

With growing worldwide tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States, both parties are actively seeking allies to assist them in what may well escalate into open warfare.

The Soviet Union views American rapprochement with German interests with alarm and anger. It had always been STALIN’S firm intention to take physical control of the German industrial basin of the Ruhr. The Russian conquest of the highly industrialized Germany has been one of their prime goals since Tsarist times. For this reason, STALIN had backed the STAUFFENBERG attempt on HITLER in 1944 and had every intention of violating his agreements about spheres of influence and wished to press on through Germany to the Rhine in 1945.

He was thwarted by ROOSEVELT’S death and by the dangerous American military presence in Western Europe in 1945.

As it was obvious that the new President was far less cooperative with Soviet aims than his predecessor, STALIN embarked on a program of terrorism, military threats and subversion, a program still in force and still extremely dangerous to American interests.

The Soviet view is that American economic assistance to Europe is antithetical to their plans for the destabilization of that region and the subsequent take-over by Soviet-friendly local Communist parties. They have been thwarted in their goals in Greece and Italy but, in their view, U.S. attitudes towards Germany is considered by the Kremlin as being extremely dangerous for the Soviets.

A new German military resurrection is of the greatest concern to STALIN followed by American economic assistance and, as they see it in Moscow, eventual American economic control over German economic development.

In order to drive a wedge between current American policy towards Germany and the American people, the Soviets have embarked on an extensive propaganda program aimed at creating a situation wherein the American public will refuse to support further U.S.-German rapprochement.

This propaganda mainly deals with German wartime atrocities, or alleged atrocities. The most important aspect of this campaign deals with the German concentration camps and specifically with purportedly huge numbers of Jews being deported, incarcerated in these camps, tortured, put to death by lethal gas and cremated in huge numbers.

As the Soviets have all of the concentration camp directorate files, it is now possible for them to make any kind of wild and unsubstantiated claim they wish without fear of rejection.

They have launched an extensive campaign with the assistance of various Jewish writers, historians, political groups and members of the motion picture, press and motion picture entities.

This program was commenced during the course of the war by such Soviet literary luminaries as Ilya Ehrenberg and other rabidly anti-German Jews and has been continued without a let up until the present day.

It is now known that many documents presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials after the war were Russian fabrications and this counterfeiting program is still in effect.

The image of thousands of emaciated, naked bodies strewn around the compounds of liberated concentration camps is strongly fixed in the minds of the American public. These bodies are purported to be those murdered by the Germans when in fact, they are victims of the typhus epidemics that raged in all the German camps from 1942 onwards. Most especially noted was the camp at Bergen-Belsen liberated by the British. Inmates in this camp had been transferred from Auschwitz in late 1944 and typhus had wreaked havoc in that place since the introduction of lousy Soviet prisoners in mid-1941.

There is a great deal of confusion in the public mind about these camps and about the massacre of millions of Jews.

Firstly, it is necessary to give a definition of what constituted a Concentration Camp.

1. Definition of Concentration Camps

According to German law, a Konzentrationslager (officially abbreviated to KL, but popularly referred to as KZ) provided Schutzhaft (Protective Custody) for persons who had not been legally sentenced to prison by a court of law, and/or for those who, having served a legal sentence, had been ordered further detention by the Gestapo (Secret State Police), Sicherheitsdienst (SD or Security Service) or the Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police.)

Legal definitions for the camps differed widely in the various German-occupied areas of Europe. For example, Straflager (Punitive Camps) in Poland were often frequently somewhat similar to prisons, and served the same purpose, but the treatment of inmates could correspond to that practiced in concentration camps in Germany.

There did not appear to be a definite formula for the establishment of detention centers. New camps often were attached to existing penal institutions. A Konzentrationslager could be added to or use the facilities of a Zuchthaus (Penitentiary).
An instance of the latter case was the use by the KL ORANIENBURG of the crematorium at the PLÖTZENSEE Zuchthaus. Concentration camps could be expanded by the addition of, for example a Straflager für Arbeitsverweigerer (Penal Camp for Persons Refusing to Work). Contrary to current legend, all German penal institutions since the turn of the century have made it a standard practice to cremate any dead prisoner and return his ashes to his family. This was especially necessary in the event of the deceased expiring from an infectious disease such as typhus.

PW Dulags (Durchgangslager, or Transit Camps) and internment camps appeared erroneously in some wartime lists as KL’s, probably because the term Dulag could have been applied also to collecting stations of all sorts for Schutshäflinge (Persons in Protective Custody).
Movements of inmates from one camp to another, especially from camps in occupied territories to those in the Reich were quite frequent in the last years of the war.
For example, in 1944, large numbers of Hungarian Jews, nearly all of those Jews deported from Budapest in that year, were transferred out of Auschwitz KL to other KLs throughout the Reich.

2. Number of Camps and Inmates

Because the Soviets have the complete records of the German concentration camp system and refuse to release them, comprehensive reports on this subject, to include estimates of the number of inmates in the KL’s, the complete number of camps in Germany and German-held areas and, most especially, the number of KL inmates who perished during the war, their origins and the means of their deaths is not immediately available.

However, as every camp commander was required to submit monthly statistical reports to the main KL directorate and as many copies of these reports exist in various files in the various occupation zones of Germany, it has been possible to reconstruct much of this information. Because of its patent falsity, no documentation from either Soviet or Jewish sources has been utilized.

A reliable report of October, 1943 concerning the camps in Poland mentioned the existence of 109 camps in that country, divided into the following types:

Nine Transit Camps
Twenty-four KL’s
Three large forced labor camps
Sixty smaller forced labor camps
Three camps for priests
Nine camps for Jews
One camp “for the improvement of the Nordic race.”

Some wartime sources have estimated the number of Germans who had been inmates at various periods during the years 1933 to 1944 to be between 750,000 and 1,300,000

The most conservative estimate of the number of persons in “protective custody” in Germany proper in July of 1944 was from 170,000 to 370,000.

The number of KL inmates in Germany proper in the last months of the war has been estimated to be between 300,000 and 500,000. Of this number, a significant percentage consisted of “racially pure” Germans, as defined by Nazi law.

A large percentage of these inmates were engaged in labor projects, often for the Organization Todt- OT and other labor and auxiliary organizations. The largest camp complex located in the east was Auschwitz which was primarily considered a work camp for the SS and often had between 50,000 and 70,000 inmates of all origins on their rolls.

3. Commitment and Release

The Einweisung in KL’s (Commitment to Concentration Camps) was effected by both branches of the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo, or Security Police).

The Gestapo (both Amt IV or the Reichssicherheitshauptamt RSHA in Berlin and its branches and sub -branches) normally committed and could release those persons charged with, but not sentenced for, political offenses and crimes. This was officially designed Schutzhaft (Protective Custody).

The Kriminal Polizei (Kripo or Criminal Police: both Amt V of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and its branches and sub-branches committed “BV’s” (Berufsverbrecher or habitual criminals) and also was able to order their release.

4. Administration

German Concentration Camps were controlled by the SS Wirtschafts- und Verwalltungshauptamt (SS Economic and Administrative Department) and the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Department of National Security, which was the head office of the Gestapo and the Security Service). Both of these departments formed part of the Reichsführung-SS (SS High Command).

The SS Wirtschafts- und Verwalltungshauptamt (abbreviated to WVHA) administered the camps, having had complete control over all personnel, including the guards and prisoners.

One of the chief functions of this department was the supervision of the SS-Unternehmungen (SS Enterprises), for which prison labor was employed. Most camps used the labor of their inmates, and in some cases, Auschwitz in particular, factories were even built either in or near the camps to utilize this labor. The WVHA was in charge of the products of such work.

The Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke DAW or German Equipment Works), one branch of which was located in ORANIENBURG, had a main office in Berlin, and
in liaison with the WVHA took a share in the production activity of the camps.

The WVHA, whose Headquarters were in Berlin, was divided into several Amtsgruppen or sub-branches. The branch which handled concentration camp matters was Amtsgruppe D, Führung und Verwaltung der Konzentrationslager (Command and Administration of Concentration Camps). Its offices were located at ORANIENBURG, twenty miles north of Berlin.

SS Obergruppenführer Oswald POHL was head of the Wirtschafts- und Verwasltungshauptamt and was directly responsible to HIMMLER

Amtsgruppenchef (Chief of Branch) of Amtsgruppe D was Richard GLÜCKS, who held the ranks of Gruppenführer in the General SS and Lieutenant General in the Waffen-SS. GLÜCKS vanished at the end of the war but recent reports, not verified, have him as a resource for the British.

The following Ämter (Departments) were contained within Amtsgruppe D:

Amt I This was Zentralamt (Central Department), which was headed by SS Obersturmbannführer Artur LIEBENSCHERL and was responsible for general policy, security arrangements, public relations and coordination of the other departments within the Amtsgruppe.

Amt II This was headed by SS Obersturmbannführer Gerhard MAURER. This department had charge of the general administration of prisoners.

Amt III The Medical Department, under SS Obersturmbannführer Dr. LOLLING, was responsible for general medical and health administration of all camp personnel, both staff and prisoners.

Amtsgruppe C, (Bauwesen) was another branch of the WVHA, controlled works and buildings and, therefore, supervised the construction within the camps of plants of the DAW referred to above. It directed the activities of concentration camp personnel who were drafted into SS Bau Brigaden and SS Bau Battalionen, (SS Construction Brigades and Battalions) for employment on SS building and construction programs or for clearing bombed areas.

5. Camp Organization

Richard GLÜCKS as head of Amtsgruppe D was the Führer der Totenkopfverbände und Konzentrationslager (Commander of the Death’s Head Formations and Commissioner of Concentration Camps.)

While the methods of organization and administration of camps differed in the various German-held sections of Europe, the following outline is fairly representative of the basic structure of such establishments.

The most important man in any camp was the Politische Kommissar (Political Kommissar). He was a Gestapo official from the Politische Abteilung (Political Section).

This section was subordinated to the Gestapo and Amt VI (Sicherheitsdienst through Amt IV (Gestapo), both of which were part of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt RSHA, or Department of National Security).

Regional control was exercised by the Gestapo through its Leitstellen and Stellen, and by the Sicherheitsdienst through its Leitabschnitte and Abschnitte.

In some respects, the Political Commissar in a camp was the superior of the Lagerkommandant (Camp Commandant) and could even have the latter removed. Normally, however, he did not interfere with the administration of a camp, except in an emergency.

A Political Commissar received double the pay of a Lagerkommandant and, in addition, RM 45 daily for travel allowance.

The rank of a Lagerkommandant was usually in accordance with the importance and size of the camp of which he was in charge. He worked closely with the Political Commissar, and was jointly responsible with the latter for the conduct of the camp, but in addition he was responsible for the safety of the camp.
The camp guards were under the command of their own officers, but the latter executed the orders of the camp Commandant insofar as such duties as posting of guards and sentries are concerned.

As deputies, the Commandant had one or more Lagerführer (Camp Sub-commanders), the number depending upon the size of the camp; they generally held the rank of SS Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant), and functioned as section leaders.

Another post was the Rapportführer, who called the prisoner rolls.

Under the Commandant, as adjutant and general supervisor, was the Hauptwachmeister (Chief Warden), a post that was often filled by the CO of the SS guards. He controlled the Platzmeister (Wardens) who had charge of working parties.

Under each Lagerführer, as his NCO, was an Arbeitsdienstführer (Works Supervisor , who was in direct contact with the inmates and kept a record of the work to be performed by them.

Assisting the Arbeitsdienstführer were Vorarbeiter (Foremen) and Arbeitskapos
(Labor or Works Supervisors). These foremen and overseers were usually chosen from among those prisoners who were serving court sentences for common crimes and who were committed to the camps by the Criminal Police rather than by the Secret State Police.

In some camps, they were graded and known as Kapos (supervisors) and Haupt-Kapos (Chief Supervisors). These superiors could either wear an armband with the inscription Kapo on the left upper arm or Gefreiterwinkel (sleeve rank chevrons similar to Wehrmacht corporals).

In charge of the living quarters in the camps are Blockführer (Block Leaders).

Prisoner parties which worked outside the camps, under the supervision of a Kommandoführer were known as Kommandos.. There were usually two guards for every five prisoners, and every third guard was armed with a submachinegun.

Among the inmates the Lagerältester (Camp Senior Inmate) held the most privileged position. He received his orders from the Lagerführer, and in some instances, was reported to be the “right hand man” of the Lagerkommandant.

Ranking below the foregoing prisoner officials were the Blockältester, comparable to an Army First Sergeant; the Blockschreiber, who was comparable to a Company Clerk, and the Steubenälteste (Room Wardens), who were prisoners in charge of rooms.

In the main, there were two doctors in each camp, one attending to the SS personnel and the other to the inmates. The nurses or medical orderlies were largely recruited from among the inmates.

The great majority of all camps were basically self-administered by trusted inmates and not SS personnel;.

This has been a general overview of the administration of the camps in the German prison systems.

Although, as noted above, the complete files of the system fell into Soviet hands and are not accessible, a great deal of material on these camps has survived in areas under Allied occupation and it is, therefore, possible to form reasonably accurate assessments of each of the major camps.

As the Soviets are now claiming that the camp complex at Auschwitz in former German Silesia was a “great extermination camp for Soviet prisoners of war and large number of Jews,” perhaps it would be instructive to study this particular camp.

Auschwitz was an enormous work camp at the confluence of several rivers and had been chosen by the senior SS establishment as a site for factories. It initially occupied the barracks of a former Imperial Austrian artillery unit, later taken over by the Poles.

There was an extensive and very important artificial rubber (Buna) factory and a large system designed to manufacture gasoline out of coal, that resource being plentiful in the region.

After the introduction of Soviet prisoners of war post June, 1941, terrible outbreaks of typhus occurred in Auschwitz and the death tolls were enormous.

Because the SS rented their prisoners out to over a hundred small German firms, it was imperative for them to take steps to halt this typhus epidemic. This was never completely accomplished and inmates transferred from Auschwitz to other camps merely spread the disease.

Rumors were begun in 1942-1943 by British intelligence, that “many thousands” of Jewish prisoners were being gassed in huge “gas chambers” and their bodies burnt.

It is entirely true that any prisoner in German custody, be them political prisoners, professional criminals or Jews, were cremated upon their death and, at least in the beginning, their ashes sent to their families. During the war this was not possible and ashes were merely dumped into a nearby river. It is important to note that it was absolutely vital to cremate the infected corpses of the many typhus victims and this may well have been the origin of the gas chamber/cremation story now being put about by Soviet propagandists.

Plans of the Auschwitz camp exist and it can be said categorically that no gas chambers for the killing of any prisoners existed in the camp. What did exist were rather small delousing chambers to kill the lice carrying typhus that could be found in the clothing of newly arrived Polish and Russian prisoners.

Inmate clothing was confiscated and shipped to Germany as raw material and each inmate was issued clean prison garb. Also, the heads of all arriving prisoners were shaved to prevent the spread of body lice and all inmates were subject to showers with medicated soap whose purpose was to kill any lice remaining on the body.

Now, DDT is used for this purpose but this compound did not exist in Germany at the time. Apparently the soap was not entirely effective and permitted the spread of typhus in the camps.

Political Analysis

The Soviets are deeply concerned with the U.S. use, and intended use, of former German military and security personnel. In order to counter what they see as a potential threat from their former, bitter enemies, they have embarked on a campaign very similar to ones used by British propagandists in the 1914-1918. The similarities are quite remarkable all in all, Then, the German were accused of raping nuns, cutting off their hands, throwing babies up into the air and catching them on bayonets and other fabrications.

Much of this was taken, in toto, from reports on Belgian atrocities in the Congo some time before.

The British also introduced the story about turning human bodies into soap by rendering their fat. This same story became prevalent during their anti-German campaigns during the late conflict.

It is interesting to note that there is a considerable body of evidence that the British authorities utilized the services of GLÜCKS in setting up British detention centers in Palestine during their on-going war with Zionist terrorist groups prior to the creation of the current state of Israel.

There is no effective way of dealing with this anti-German propaganda. It is considered unproductive to make any attempt at refutation of the growing legends because the world-wide Jewish community is now supporting and exploiting the Soviet propaganda and are obviously utilizing it for their own ends.

Since a significant number of former German SS and SD personnel are now employed by American intelligence, it is recommended that any material concerning the use of these individuals be strictly limited in its dissemination and that any records now extant be accorded the greatest security protection.”




Official German Record of all Prisoners in Auschwitz Concentration Camp from May of 1940 through December of 1944

Prisoner records of Auschwitz camp from May, 1940 through December 1944 from the Glücks complete Concentration Camp microfilm records now located in the Russian Central Archives

(Note: The attached statistical tables concerning prisoners in Auschwitz camp from its inception to its closing are taken directly from Soviet archival material, now available on microfilm from the former Soviet Central Archives. Also, a good deal of corroborative material from the German Archives concerning the German State Railways has been located in the German State Archives (Bundesarchiv) and utilized. The railroad was responsible for the transportation of inmates to and from concentration camps in the figures from the Russian files is accurately reflected in the Reichsbahn documents.)

















Non Jewish Prisoners Entering Auschwitz

1940
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
70
1225
147
1156
1873
471
637
1190 1941
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1691
1339
221
4051
1793
731
1925
473
785
7191
1215
1217 1942
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
843
1508
1071
1817
1881
2583
3493
3106
1628
2952
2507
3172
6669 22632 26561
1943
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
9474
4065
15618
7346
4868
3368
4942
5282
4531
8179
3676
4961 1944
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1767
1052
573
5971
2097
1412
1368
6890
4604
674
1854
1251
76310 29513

Total non-Jews in Auschwitz, 1940-1944: 161,685

Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286-1945: Frames 001-329.


Jewish Prisoners Entering Auschwitz 1941-1944

1941
July
Nov
Dec
171
1
6 1942
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1166
6762
1000
3004
9736
3518
3419
5990
4146
4742 1943
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
6076
2507
9037
5054
2453
2520
4201
13382
7990
1624
3921
7180
178 43483 65945
1944
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
1445
1299
1178
3175
18927
8438
12924
12705
2126
1177
63394

Total Jews in Auschwitz, 1941-1944: 173,000

Total number of inmates in Auschwitz, 1940-1944
334,785

Sources: CSA No. 187603: -Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852.








Total Typhus Deaths in Auschwitz, 1941-1944

1941
Oct
Nov
Dec
2128
5084
2585 1942
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1776
1515
3018
1392
2911
3688
4124
4968
1497
6092
103
1023 1943
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
2123
2979
4604
2835
2378
2980
3438
2633
2901
3549
4621
4679
9797 32107 39720
1944
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
2801
1933
2321
1771
981
1575
1121
1847
3313
3095
927
120
21805



Total deaths by typhus in Auschwitz, 1941-1944
103,447

Sources: CSA No. 187603: 1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286.

Jewish Typhus Deaths in Auschwitz, 1942-1944

1942
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
875
906
1789
875
1991
2406
3090
3271
919
4789
29
621 1943
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1502
1729
3981
895
1721
1990
2017
968
1803
2705
3219
2842 1944
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1429
876
1312
632
407
884
455
1129
1871
1294
927
91
21561 25372 11307

Total Jewish deaths by typhus in Auschwitz, 1942-1944
58,240
Total non-Jewish deaths by typhus in Auschwitz, 1940-1944
45,207

Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852.
















Deaths by natural causes (other than typhus) in Auschwitz, 1940-1944

1940
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
6
23
15
35
9
21
34
30 1941
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
142
175
165
9
47
19
5
11
23
2
39
48 1942
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
120
77
42
39
23
21
16
5
19
25
49
61
173 685 497
1943
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
103
221
198
89
62
56
31
38
96
102
235
197 1944
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
120
191
178
167
155
151
98
65
54
67
94
17
1428 1357

Death by natural causes (other than typhus), 1940-1944
4,140

Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286.

Death by natural causes (other than typhus), Jews, Auschwitz, 1941-1944

1941
Dec
7 1942
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
62
39
32
26
11
5
9
1
11
19
37
48 1943
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
62
117
120
43
37
41
16
24
61
81
104
130
7 300 836
1944
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
98
127
111
140
90
107
49
32
41
39
81
6
921

Total Jewish deaths by natural causes (other than typhus), 1941-1944
2,064
Sources: CSA No. 187603: 1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286.

Transfers from Auschwitz, 1940-1944

1940
Oct
11 1941
Jan
Feb
April
May
June
657
8
1002
36
4 1942
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
196
275
158
423
1845
753
11 1707 3650
1943
Mar
Apr
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
3001
1024
3195
600
4544
3500
333 1944
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
612
2060
881
2500
7923
9228
15628
8957
9091
33244
8309
1455
16197 99888

Total transferred from Auschwitz, 1940-1944
121,453

Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852.








Transfers of Jews from Auschwitz, 1941-1944

1941
Jan
Apr
May
271
459
17 1942
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
120
37
30
112
873
120 1943
Mar
Apr
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1572
630
2871
395
3201
3264
173
747 1292 12106
1944
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
409
1843
410
1927
7540
8109
13765
7501
8502
28509
7322
761
86598

Total number of Jews transferred from Auschwitz, 1941-1944
100,743

Sources: CSA No. 187603: 1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286.







Administrative Executions at Auschwitz, 1940-1943

1940
Nov 22
40 Poles 1941
Jan 3
July 3
Aug 1
Nov 14
Dec 1
Dec 20
1 Pole
80 Poles
1 Jew
151 Poles
1 Pole
5 Poles
Poles 40
Jews 0 Poles 238
Jews 1

1942 1942 cont.
Jan 24
Apr 3
May 27
May 28
June 4
June 9
June 10
June 11
June 12

June 13
June 15
June 16
June 18
June 19
June 20

June 22
June 23
June 25
1 Russian
11 Poles
150 Poles
1 Jew
3 Jews
3 Jews
13 Poles
3 Jews
60 Poles, 2 Jews
6 Jews
200 Poles
2 Poles, 2 Jews
8 Jews
50 Poles, 4 Jews
4 Czechs
4 Jews
3 Jews
3 Jews
June 26
June 27
June 29
July 1
July 2
July 14
July 16
July 20
July 23
July 29
Aug 11
Aug 13
Aug 18
Aug 21
Sept 5
Sept 25
Nov 9
Nov 14
Nov 17
Dec 4 40 Poles, 1 Jew
4 Jews
2 Poles, 3 Jews
15 Jews
9 Jews
10 Poles, 2 Jews
9 Poles
50 Poles
2 Jews
14 Poles
11 Jews
1 Pole
60 Poles
57 Poles
1 Jew
3 Poles
3 Poles
1 Pole
1 Pole
9 Poles, 2 Russians
Poles
Jews
Russians
Czechs 737
91
3
4

1943
Jan 6
Jan 14
Jan 25
Jan 26
Feb 7
Feb 9
Feb 13
Feb 19
Mar 17
Apr 3
Apr 13
May 22
May 31
June 10
June 25
June 28
July 24
July 28
Aug 20
Sept 4
Sept 21
Sept 28
Oct 11
Nov 9
9 Poles, 5 Jews
6 Poles
22 Poles
7 Poles, 2 Jews
2 Poles
2 Poles, 1 Jew
16 Poles
11 Poles, 3 Jews
1 Pole
26 Poles
2 Gypsies
13 Poles, 6 Jews, 5 Gypsies
1 Gypsy
20 Poles
68 Poles
30 Poles
1 Pole
4 Poles
38 Poles
45 Poles, 8 Russians
2 Poles
9 Poles, 6 Jews, 12 Gypsies, 1 Czech
54 Poles
50 Poles
Poles
Jews
Russians
Gypsies
Czechs 436
23
8
19
2






1944
Feb 1


Mar 24
Sept 15
19 Poles
8 Russians
4 Poles
3 Jews
2 Poles
Poles
Jews
Russians
25
3
8



Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286.

Total number of inmates executed: 1359 Total Russians executed: 19
Total Gypsies executed: 19 Total Poles executed: 1208
Total Jews executed: 117 Total Czechs executed: 6
Total of Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz, May, 1944-October, 1944

1944
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
8548
3981
6543
3881
163
1
23,117

Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286-1945: Frames 001-329.

Total number of Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz, May-October, 1944: 23,117

Note: Number of Hungarian Jews claimed sent to Auschwitz, May-October, 1944:
Lucy Dawidowicz. The War Against the Jews, New York, 1975.: 450,000
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, New York, 1985. 180,000



Hungarian Jews transferred from Auschwitz, May-October, 1944

1944
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
2963
5934
9630
1500
1300
200
21,527

.

Total number of Hungarian Jews entering Auschwitz, May-October, 1944: 23,117
Total number of Hungarian Jews transferred from Auschwitz, May-October, 1944: 21,527
Total number of Hungarian Jews remaining in Auschwitz after October, 1944: 1,590
Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286-1945: Frames 001-329

Summation: From July, 1941 through October, 1944
Total number of Jewish prisoners in the Auschwitz camp system: 173,000
Total number of Jewish prisoners who died of typhus: 58,240
Total number of Jewish prisoners who died of natural causes: 2,064
Total number of Jewish prisoners transferred to other camps: 100,743
Total number of Jewish prisoners executed: 117
Total number of Jewish prisoners in camp after German evacuation on January 15, 1945: 11,839


Sources: CSA No. 187603: Roll 281-1940: Frames 107-869-Roll 282-1940-41: Frames 001-875-Roll 283-1941-42:Frames 001-872-Roll 284-1942-43: Frames 003-862-Roll 285-1943-44: Frames 019-852- Roll 286-1945: Frames 001-329.


When the SS evacuated the Auschwitz work camp complex in the middle of January 1945, they left a large number of prisoners behind. Many of these were too old or too sick to travel and they were left in their barracks, guarded by a Polish militia that had been raised earlier by Hans Frank, the head of the Government General (as occupied Poland was termed by the Germans.) With the approach of the Soviet army in early 1945, these Polish guards indiscriminately attacked the barracks, with the prisoners inside, using hand grenades and machine guns.

The violent animosity of the Catholic Poles to their huge Jewish community is certainly well known. When the Russians invaded Poland in 1920, one of the greatest fears of the Polish leadership and the government was that the 500,000 Jewish residents of Warsaw’s Nalevski district would rise up against them in support of the advancing Bolshevik armies. Many Polish Jews fled after the failure of the Russian attack and a number of those left behind were promptly massacred by Poles when the central government collapsed after the German invasion of 1939.

Although exact figures of the dead among the remaining Auschwitz inmates in 1945 are not available, several existing Soviet military reports put the death toll between 7,000 and 10,000. Former members of the Polish militia have subsequently claimed that many of the dead were shot down by Russian troops as they attempted to exit the liberated camp.

The Russians did not like Jews either, remembering their savagery against them during the salad days of Josef Stalin.

The truth of this matter will never be known but at least this is an atrocity that cannot be blamed on the Germans who were hundreds of miles away at the time.

How many of the 1,590 Hungarian Jewish deportees remaining in Auschwitz died in this Slavic holocaust is not known.

[Radar]

I would treat this document with extreme caution and scepticism.

Unless the supplier of it is willing to say who prepared it and how they obtained it I would assume it was not genuine as a US government document.

Although the writer of the report shows some familiarity with German military terms there are a number of doubtful items which create doubt that the writer was an expert or was an American which they seemingly purport to be. I don't think it is an official US government document but rather an essay written by a commentator on events. This is not to say that many of the comments may be correct but they are those of the unknown writer.

Also in 1948, even in a confidential document, such open pro-German opinion would have been extremely rare and dangerous for the writer in an official document.

[Revquery]

I wouldn't use this document as it stands. I'd need to see the original documents, and, needless to say the actual microfilm frames.

[Mannstein]

Has anyone cross checked these data with those contained in the Sterbebucher for Auschwitz that Gorbachov handed to Kohl after the wall came down?

[Haldan]

Reply from Mr. Harring:

I will be happy to send the list under seperate cover.
The background on these is this.
Concentration Camp (KL) headquarters at Sachsenhausen, under the command of SS-Gruppenführer Richard Glücks of the Verwaltungs-Hauptamt, and every month, the heads of each of the camps had to send to his office, a report indicating the number of inmates in his camp, a breakdown by origin, age and, often, crime. Also, transfers, deaths, escapes, executions for various crimes, usw were all put on the pri-printed forms and shipped to Berlin.


In 1945, the Soviets captured all of these records and they ended up in Moscow's Central Archives were they were microfilmed.

Jewish groups have compelled the Russians of the present era to forbid any mention of these records and, even more important, to make any copy of them.

We have over 300 rolls of microfilm with the entire file which ranges from 1935 throuigh early 1945.

Digging out the records for a single camp is a daunting and very time consuming task but it was done for Auschwitz because of the stories, fictional at best, of enormous numbers of Jews gassed and cremated there.

The actual records, in conjunction with the records of the Reichsbahn (now in the Bundesarchiv and forbidden to look at for obvious reasons) show how many Jews were shipped to Auschwitz or transferred from it. The figures show very clearly that the stories about mass gassings are completely untrue.

There is the background and you will be getting the material today.

Regards,
Brian Harring

[Laurentz Dahl]

Please keep us updated Mr. Haldan.

It would be indeed be nice to see some microfilm scans of the documents.

[Zulu]

Some news about the reliability of the numbers mentioned here?
There are still accessible online at
http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a2617.htm
I tried myself to require the Auschwitz list to Brian Harring by mail without any answer.
Any recent information on that topìc?

[Mkk]

Total of Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz, May, 1944-October, 1944

1944
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
8548
3981
6543
3881
163
1
23,117

IF these numbers for Hungarian Jews are true, than it validates Butz theory that far less Hungarian Jews were deported that otherwise claimed.

[Haldan]

Please keep us updated Mr. Haldan.

It would be indeed be nice to see some microfilm scans of the documents.

Well, Laurentz: Here's your "update". Brian Harring told me, in 1/23/2007, that I would get access to his material but alas, I never heard so much as a peep back from this individual.
So ! Seeing as its a new year and everything I decided to contact Brian Harring one more time before giving up on this issue.

Here's my e-mail to him:

Hello Brian Harring - this is DELETION again,

[DELETIONS]

I've waited since 2007 on your material, I have been extremely patient because, as you say, it is a daunting task to handle all this material.
BUT, you wrote in 2007 that I would be getting my hands on your material the same day 1/23/07, that is ! However I never heard back from you ever since you wrote your last e-mail to this writer.

Did you forget about my e-mail and the "Auschwitz List"? I didn't forget about my inquiry to you Brian Harring.

Can you send the material sometime this month? I don't feel like waiting another five years.

Faithfully,
DELETION

So we wait, eh?

-haldan