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6 Million Jews Nazi Victims
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- Friday, December 14, 1945
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- NUERNBERG. (AP)—Six million European Jews were ruthlessly slaughtered in the Nazi campaign of extermination, said German secret police estimates placed today before the international military tribunal trying 21 of Hitler's top leaders on war crimes charges.
American prosecutors filed an affidavit by Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, right hand man to dependent Ernst Kaltenbrunner in the secret police giving the estimate.
"Approximately 4 million Jews had been killed in the various extermination camps while an additional 2 million met death in other ways, the major part of which were shot by operational squads of security police during the campaign against Russia," Hoettl said in his affidavit.
Hoettl attributed his figure to Adolf Eichman, chief "Jew catcher" in the secret police. He said Eichman confessed it to him in August 1944 in expressing the conviction that he would have to pay for "the millions of Jewish lives on his conscience."
Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler thought Eichman's total was too low, Hoettl's affidavit revealed. But Hoettl added that Eichman was the best informed official on Jewish executions.
Thousands were killed when SS troops wiped out the Warsaw ghetto in a 29-day massacre in 1943, according to records submitted by Maj. Frank Walksh, New York city, assistant U.S. prosecutor.
Details of the mass murder in Warsaw were read from the reports of the SS police chief of the city, who wrote that he ordered
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