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To: dschapin
Here's a hint, Simon Wiesenthal is full of crap with their numbers on this matter as well. The 700,000 number came from Communist sources who put the total number of dead in YU during the war at 1.7 million in order to get more reparations from Germany. This was admitted by Milovan Djilas, a Politburo member and one of the 4 most powerful men in YU at the time.

The numbers that you want to use are those found in two studies, one by the Serbian Bogoljub Kocovic and the other by the Croatian Vladimir Zerjavic. Their studies were scientific and independent of each other, yet they both came to almost identitical numbers.

100 posted on 05/08/2008 3:06:48 PM PDT by Diocletian
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To: Diocletian

I will need to read more about those studies. My initial reaction is scepticism because the numbers are so much lower than all of the other estimates. However, I will admit that (from the little bit of reading I was able to do in the last hour or so) it does appear that three of the more detailed statistical studies all came to similar results. That said, I put a lot of faith in the Simon Wisenthal Center and find it hard to believe that the estimates of the dead could have been so far off for so long. There also were some legitimate sounding criticisms of these studies methedologies - in that they may have used too low of a birthrate for rural Serbs. Anyway, thanks for the information - I actually handn’t been aware that there was such a dispute over the numbers untill you started posting to me today.


102 posted on 05/08/2008 5:18:21 PM PDT by dschapin
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