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German Atrocity Stories Grow and Grow:
- Sub-Headline
- 5,817,000 Tortured and Beaten to Death—May Reach 8,285,000
- Publication Date
- Thursday, April 12, 1945
- Historical Event
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First Public Reports on ‘Extermination Camp’ at Auschwitz
This database includes 694 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
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- AP
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- By The Associated Press
Allied armies driving the Nazis back from occupied territory have uncovered a series of death camps in which more than 5,817,000 civilians, slave laborers, and prisoners of war are alleged to have died.
Included in this figure was a listing by the International Church Movement Ecumenical Refugee Commission of 1,715.000 Jews it said were killed by the Germans at the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) and nearby Birkenau concentration camps in Polish Silesia.
Escapee Reveals Horrors.
Dr. Bela Fabian, president of the dissolved Hungarian Independent Democratic Party, who said he escaped from Oswiecim, told Associated Press Correspondent Thoburn Wlant near Erfurt, Germany, yesterday that a total of 5,000,000 Jews had been killed there in 10 months.
If Dr. Fabian's figures are accurate and include the deaths previously reported by the refugee commission, the total for the camps already uncovered would exceed 8,285,000.
Report About 5,000,000 Killed
A spokesman for the American Jewish Committee Library in New York said it had no figures to substantiate Dr. Fabian's report but that it estimated a total of 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 Jews had been killed or had died throughout Europe since the war began.
Following is a list of other major places discovered by the Allies, the number of persons reported killed at each, and the source of information:
OREL: 8,000 starved or killed by malnutrition (Russian Commission).
SMOLENSK: 135,000 killed during German occupation (Russian Commission).
KIEV: 52,000 Jews killed at Babii Yar concentration camp (Interallied Commission).
KHARKOV: 30.000 killed during occupation (German officer's testi-
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