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This isn’t correct. Your statement regarding gulag numbers being higher comes from Maier’s report and is generally refuted. The death rates in the gulags were m
by comfypotato 4y ago
This isn’t correct. Your statement regarding gulag numbers being higher comes from Maier’s report and is generally refuted. The death rates in the gulags were much lower than Maier reported. The gulags did contain many more prisoners than the holocaust camps. [1]
The holocaust is the world’s go-to genocide because it has by far the largest rate of death and has the highest total death count. It was also carried out by a relatively small country. Auschwitz’s last year saw more than 1M deaths.
[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/152781 https://www.jstor.org/stable/152781
Sorry for the JSTOR paywall if you don’t have access to an institution. Perhaps you can find it elsewhere. The first two tables compare the total deaths (and also deaths over time) between the holocaust camps and the gulags.
- cafard 4y agoThat relatively small country found plenty of its victims outside its borders.