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https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/05/07/fixing-the-numbers-at-auschwitz/

 

PUBLISHED: May 7, 1992 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 10, 2021 at 8:35 a.m.

 

Beyond the Death Wall and the prisoners` barracks, past the ruined gas chambers and crematoriums, at the edge of the Auschwitz death camp, is a row of 19 concrete memorials.

 

The memorials are dedicated to the victims of the Nazi killing machine that operated here with such horrific efficiency. But gone now from the memorials are the 19 inscriptions that said in 19 languages that four million people died here.

 

The memorials are blank because they were wrong.

 

Jewish and Polish scholars of the Holocaust now agree that the Auschwitz death toll was less than half the four million cited here for four decades. The actual number was probably between 1.1 million and 1.5 million-and at least 90 percent of the victims were Jews.