Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Table 7: Death cases in the concentration camps for the month of
August 1943
CONCENTRATION CAMP INMATES DEATHS PERCENT
AUGUST JULY CHANGE
Dachau 17,300 40 0.23 0.32 -0.09
Sachsenhausen 26,500 194 0.73 0.78 -0.05
Buchenwald 17,600 118 0.67 1.22 -0.55
Mauthausen-Gusen 21,100 290 1.37 1.61 -0.24
Flossenbürg 4,800 155 3.23 3.27 -0.04
Neuengamme 9,800 150 1.53 2.14 -0.61
Auschwitz (men) 48,000 1,442 3.00 2.96 +0.04
Auschwitz (women) 26,000 938 3.61 5.15 -1.54
Gross-Rosen 5,000 76 1.52 2.69 -1.17
Natzweiler 2,200 41 1.87 1.63 +0.24
Bergen-Belsen 3,300 4 0.12 0.39 -0.27
Stutthof (men) 3,800 131 3.45 5.69 -2.24
Stutthof (women) 500 1 0.20 0.00 +0.20
Lublin (men) 11,500 882 7.67 4.62 +3.05
Lublin (women) 3,900 172 4.41 2.01 +2.40
Ravensbrück (men) 3,100 26 0.84 0.76 +0.08
Ravensbrück (women) 14,100 38 0.27 0.24 +0.03
Riga Herzogenbusch 3,000 1 0.03 0.33 -0.30
Total 224,000 4,669
Overall average for August 1943: 2.09
Overall average for July 1943: 2.23
Decrease: -0.14
camps in the North such as Rock Island and Camp Douglas experienced death
rates of 2%-4% per month. These figures were even exceeded in camps in the
south such as Florence, where diarrhea and scurvy caused 20 to 50 deaths per day,
in a prisoner population of about 12,000. Conditions at Andersonville were even
worse, and 13,000 of the 50,000 Union POWs who were interned there perished.
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During the 1899-1902 Boer War in South Africa, about 120,000 noncombatant
white Boers and 75,000 black Africans were placed in British concentration
camps. For about a year, the Boer mortality rate ranged from 120 to 340
deaths per thousand per year (1.1% to 3.4% per month) while the Boer infant
mortality rate, due chiefly to epidemics of measles, was as high as 600 per thousand
per year (7.35% per month). About 20,000 Boer women and children died in
these camps. 266 During World War I, the Germans mixed Russian POWs with
those of other nationalities, resulting in typhus epidemics in their POW camps;
conditions were strikingly similar to those experienced in the World War II con-
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Hesseltine, 152, 156, 192, 203; Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. 1, 960.
Amery, vol. 5, 252, 253, 601; vol. 6, 24, 25.
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