I'm gonna guess that the true number was a lot higher, simply because it became a meme. That said, the Salem witch trials were only a couple dozen people: http

I'm gonna guess that the true number was a lot higher, simply because it became a meme. That said, the Salem witch trials were only a couple dozen people: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+in+salem+witch+trials https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+in+sale... versus the larger genocides and cleansings of the Nazis, Cultural Revolution, etc. If it were orders of magnitude higher, I suspect there'd be more direct evidence in the record, including names.