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Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
period. Therefore, the incomplete figures cited here for Auschwitz are all that are
required for the present purpose.
Available figures of “ordinary” deaths in the three camps break down as
shown in Table 18 (it being noted that the figure for Buchenwald is only for the
first three months of 1945): 584
Table 18: Recorded deaths in the Auschwitz,
Buchenwald and Dachau camps
YEAR AUSCHWITZ BUCHENWALD DACHAU
1940 1,772 1,515
1941 1,522 2,576
1942 45,575 2,898 2,470
1943 36,960 3,516 1,100
1944 8,644 4,794
1945 13,056 15,384
TOTALS 31,408 27,839
TOTALS 125,000 37,000 32,000
The crucial years are 1942 and 1943, because those are the latest years that
could be considered to have determined German decisions about the construction
of crematories in the camps.
The ratio of projected muffles to “ordinary” deaths is presented in Table 19. I
have assumed 52 muffles for Auschwitz (46 for Birkenau and six for the
Stammlager (Auschwitz I camp)), not because Auschwitz ever in fact had 52 operational
muffles, but because the purpose of this calculation is to help interpret
intentions in building the crematories rather than capabilities actually attained. We
see, in fact, that the ratio of cremation muffles to deaths somewhat disfavors
Auschwitz: that is, it was decided that Auschwitz would be less well equipped
with crematories than Buchenwald and Dachau (two camps that, by universal
agreement, were not extermination camps). Perhaps budgetary constraints excluded
more crematories for Auschwitz.
Table 19: Number of projected muffles per thousand recorded deaths
YEAR AUSCHWITZ BUCHENWALD DACHAU
MUFFLES 52 6 6
1942 1.14 2.07 2.43
1943 1.41 1.71 5.45
584
416
Nuremberg document 2171-PS, published in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1946-1948), Vol. 4, pp. 800-835; P. Berben, Dachau 1933-1945: The Official
History (London: Norfolk Press, 1975 ed.), p. 281. I have not used Mauthausen in this comparison
because, although the recorded deaths are fairly well known (see, for example, Hans
Marsálek, Die Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Mauthausen, Vienna, 1974), the extent of
cremation means is uncertain. Mauthausen was more decentralized than the other camps; for example,
the satellite camp Gusen experienced about as many deaths as the main camp, and it and
other satellite camps had their own crematoria of uncertain extent (See: Pressac, pp. 108-114,
and, Marsálek, p. 157). In addition, Mauthausen on occasion used ordinary municipal crematoria,
such as the one in Steyr.