Facts, Figures, Final Extermination of Jews

"During the war the concentration camps served another aim: the extermination of the Jews in the countries under German domination. The extermination of large numbers was undertaken in a few camps only, such as Auschwitz, Maidanek. The number of Jews that were murdered in Nazi Germany can only be estimated. There is one man, according to Rudolph Hoess, commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp from May 1, 1940 to December 1943,who could give exact information; this is one Eichmann, chief of suboffice IV B-4 of the RSHA [Reich Security Main Office], where all Jewish affairs were handled. It is now known that by the end of August, 1944, Eichmann declared: 'In the various extermination camps about four million Jews must have been killed, another two million having died from other causes, of which number the greater part were shot by the 'Einsatzkommandos' [Special Task Force] of the Security Police during the Russian campaign'."
"From this statement it is clear that as early as August, 1944, Eichmann put the number of Jews murdered at six millions."

"Today I am going to prophesy again: If the international Jewish financiers within or without Europe succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war the result will not be the Bolshevization of the world, and the victory of Jewry, but the obliteration of the Jewish race in Europe." Adolph Hitler, January 30, 1939
Quoted from : Human Behavior in the Concentration Camp, Doctoral thesis; degree of Doctor of Medical Science, University of Utrecht, 1952, Dr. Elie A. Cohen, Auschwitz survivor 

This image provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje. (AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)

Holocaust murder rate higher than thought: "[Records studied of] special trains [used to transport millions of people to the three camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka; the finding of a] three-month phase of hyperintense killing [highlighting the Nazis'] pure focused goal of obliterating the entire Jewish people of occupied Poland in as short a time as possible."
"To my surprise historians have completely avoided quantitative approaches for examining this period. But the graphs show with chilling immediacy the blood lust of the Nazi program to obliterate the Jewish people in as short a time as possible."
"The subsequent rapid plunge in the death rate in November and December 1942 simply reflects that there were very few Jewish victims left alive to murder."
"It highlights the frenzied killing the Nazis planned for the Final Solution to the Jewish Question and their ability and eagerness to carry it out."
Lewi Stone, professor, University of Tel Aviv, Israel

Professor Lewi Stone calculates that during three months in 1942, the Nazis perpetrated the most intense period of human slaughter in the 20th century by sending 1.47 million Jews to the gas chambers (pictured is Belzec death camp, one of three used for the slaughter)

According to new research and a study producing explanatory graphs, at the height of the Holocaust the Nazi murder rate of Jews was close to three times higher than previously thought, declining only when there remained "no one left to kill", concluded Professor Lewi Stone of the University of Tel Aviv, in Israel. An average of 15,000 Jews were murdered daily in the death camps of German-occupied Poland, under Operation Reinhard, Dr. Stone has revealed.

At Auschwitz alone, previous estimates concluded that six thousand people were daily murdered with exact figures difficult to verify since the Nazis, though excellent bookkeepers who enjoyed meticulous statistical data-retention and note-taking, made an effort to conceal the wholesale extent of their murderous regime. Dr. Stone undertook a study of records of "special trains" tasked with the conveyance of millions of victims to the death camps.

The graph his study produced demonstrated that of the 1.7-million people killed between 1942 and 1943, about 1.32-million died within a hundred-day burst of wholesale slaughter between August and October of 1942. The death toll of those three months accounts, according to Dr. Stone, for over a quarter of known Holocaust victims, confirmed by studying previous research to ensure he was not mistaken in his conclusions.

Dr. Stone based his estimates on work conducted by an Israeli historian, Yitzhak Arad, who had undertaken to compile data on 480 train deportations from 393 Polish towns and ghettos during the German offensive against the presence of Jewish life on Planet Earth. Most victims were Polish Jews, gassed to death, their bodies buried in pits, later to be exhumed, and cremated in an effort to cover up the gruesome crime of mass genocide.

After cremation the masses of bones were ground up and used as agricultural fertilizer. Published in the journal Science Advances, the study moved Holocaust expert Sir Richard J. Evans of Cambridge University to state that a more orderly SS leadership took on the emergency file of Jewish extermination in August of 1942. "It is not surprising therefore that the killing rate accelerated as it became more efficient", he clarified.

Professor Stone used train records showing the number of transports carrying people from Polish towns and ghettos to three death camps to calculate the murder rate (pictured, train lines are laid outside the Treblinka death camp)