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acheron2012 ago

I have always said that people don't realize how many a million is. It is simply not logistically feasible to kill - not to mention dispose of, which takes orders of magnitude longer - 6+ million people in the span of half a decade.

You can argue about how blue the sky is, how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, or how many ovens the Nazis had and when they had them. But the math just doesn't work out.

For example assume we go with "only" 6 million. Then we assume NO startup time, the camps and all their facilities, as well as the transported prisoners pop into existence all the way back in 1939. Even under that completely unrealistic scenario you are talking about 2700 people a day: 114 people an hour 24 hours a day, day in, day out, every single day for 2200 days straight - in time of war , not missing one single hour for broken equipment, delayed trains, or ANY other reasons.

Conceptually it is possible. But mathematically it is vanishingly unlikely.

fr33europe ago

It's not half a decade, it's less. I don't have the time right now to look it up, but we normally look at it as spanning the war, it's not. Auschwitz wasn't built 'till mid '41 IIRC.

ardvarcus ago

Conditions in the camps didn't get bad until after 1943. The deteoration was caused by supply lines being cut, fewer available provisions most of which had to go to German soldiers, and an increased flood of prisoners.

fr33europe ago

You're preaching to the choir.

If it was up to me, I'd far more rather spend ww2 in a german summer camp than on the eastern front or getting roasted alive in German cities with my kids.