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To: Ditto
Wow, I've never seen a casualty estimate for the holocaust that exceeds 12 million (and that is also probably an exaggeration). To get Hitler's kill count to 23 million, the author must be including Soviet combat casualties. Kinda shoddy work, IMHO.
82 posted on 03/25/2002 12:45:17 PM PST by jboot
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To: jboot
"Overall, by genocide, the killing of hostages, reprisal raids, forced labor, 'euthanasia,' starvation, exposure, medical experiments, terror bombing, and in the concentration and death camps, the Nazis murdered from about 15,000,000 to over 31,600,000 people, most likely closer to 21 million men, women, handicapped, aged, sick, prisoners of war, forced laborers, camp inmates, critics, homosexuals, Jews, Slavs, Serbs, Czechs, Italians, Poles, Frenchmen, Ukrainians, and so on. Among them were 1 million children under eighteen years of age."
-R.J. Rummel, Death by Government

Go to http://www.freedomsnest.com/rummel_nazi.html to see how he calculated the numbers. The big difference between your numbers and his is how many of the 12 million Russian civilian dead during WWII do you blame Hitler, and how many do you blame on Stalin.

83 posted on 03/25/2002 1:19:04 PM PST by Ditto
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