PLSC 27600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Timothy D. Snyder, Majdanek Concentration Camp, Erich Hoepner
31 Aug 2016
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Best estimates for number of non-combatants (pows and civilians) killed by germans: 6 million. Jews and 5 million non-jews, according to the holocaust museum. The number varies from 4. 5 million to 6 million, with jjm believing that it was around 5. 7 million. The exact number will never be known for sure: jjm states that of the 5. 7 million, 3 million were polish, 1 million were soviet, 750k were hungarian and romanian, 230k were from the baltic states, 217k were czech, The number of german jews was small to begin with, and many were able to flee earlier: within german-occupied areas, 57-67% of the jews were murdered, which was around 30-36% of the global population. 31% of romani (gypsies) were killed, but in. Wwi, 75% of ottoman armenians were killed, and in the 1994 rwanda genocide, 24 million soviets were killed: 16 million civilians (1 million of them jews). 5 million of those were killed by fellow.
