Newsreel of the 1947 Auschwitz trials states 300,000 victims

This German newsreel covers the start of the Auschwitz trials in Kraków which began on November 24, 1947. Interestingly the charges laid against the defendants stated a TOTAL of 300,000 deaths, for ALL nationalities at the camp including Jews. This is a far cry from the initial ludicrous 4 million deaths claimed after the war (and chiselled on the Death plaques at the front of the camp) which was then reluctantly revised downwards dramatically to some 1.3 million after the Death books were released by the Russians in the 90’s contradicting this value. This figure is still grossly exaggerated, based on Red Cross and other records the total number of deaths at Auschwitz was some 135,000. Most of these deaths were due to Typhus with a small number having been executed. The mythical “Homicidal Gas chambers” were actually delousing chambers used to fumigate inmates clothing to kill lice which was the primary vector for spreading Typhus, ironically saving inmates lives.