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GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORT206umphant, is doomed. What of it can be salvaged? Only little.”In his first and so far most comprehensive book, Pressac is compelledto correct the statements of witnesses in many cases in order toeliminate errors and, in his opinion, technical impossibilities. But whenso doing, he never reveals the basis upon which he undertakes thesecorrections. In actual fact, he merely replaces the capriciousness of‘eyewitnesses’ with his own. Thus, the numbers of victims per gassingprocedure, as estimated by Pressac, for example, are considerablylower than those estimated in the eyewitness statements, which oftenspeak of several thousand victims per gassing operation per day forcrematoria II and III. One thousand people could only have been madeto enter a cellar with a surface area of 210 m 2 under the maintenance ofextraordinary discipline accompanied by a readiness to co-operate(!)on the part of the victims (see chapter 7.3.2.1.1.). The numbers of peoplereported in places by witnesses, on the other hand (2,000 andmore 456 ) could not have been contained by morgue 1. To arrive at thenumber of victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as spread by sensationalistmedia and literature until the late 1980s—four million—one is in factcompelled to resort to technically impossible figures of ‘gas chamber’occupancy, as the witnesses do. At the moment, the official estimatesrange from approximately 1 to 1½ million victims, 457 though in hissecond book, Pressac downgraded the ‘gas chamber’ victims to630,000 458 and later even further down to 470,000-550,000, 459 and inan article published in a small German periodical in early 2002, aGerman mainstream journalist attempted to reduce the death toll of theAuschwitz ‘gas chambers’ down to as little as 356,000. 460 But as longas this revolutionary development is not accepted by most scholars, wewill stick to the number of one million ‘gas chamber’ victims for allfurther considerations.456 2,000 according to R. Höß (H. Friedländer, op. cit. (note 438), S. 112), as well as C.S. Bendel,3,000 according to M. Niyszli, see note 448.457 On the correction to the number of victims in 1990, see also Werner Rademacher, “Die Wandlungender Totenzahl von Auschwitz”, VffG 3(3) (1999), pp. 256-267 (online:www.vho.org/VffG/1999/3/Rademacher256-267.html); Robert Faurisson: “Wieviele Tote gabes in Auschwitz?” VffG 3(3) (1999), pp. 268-272 (online:www.vho.org/VffG/1999/3/Faurisson268-272.html).458 J.-C. Pressac, Les crématoires d’Auschwitz, op. cit. (note 90), p. 147.459 J.-C. Pressac, Die Krematorien von Auschwitz, op. cit. (note 90), p. 202.460 F. Meyer, op. cit. (note 312). For an overview of the wide range and development of claimsabout the Auschwitz death toll, see Robert Faurisson, “How many deaths at Auschwitz?”, TheRevisionist, 1(1) (2003), pp. 17-23 (www.vho.org/tr/2003/Faurisson17-23.html).