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Where Does the Figure of 6 Million Holocaust Victims Come From?
(Ha'aretz) In November 1945, Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, a trained historian who served in a number of senior positions in the SS, testified for the prosecution in the Nuremberg trials of accused Nazi war criminals. He described a conversation he had with Adolf Eichmann, the SS official who had principal responsibility for the logistics of the Jewish genocide, in Budapest in August 1944. Hoettl recalled how "Eichmann...told me that, according to his information, some 6,000,000 Jews had perished until then - 4,000,000 in extermination camps and the remaining 2,000,000 through shooting by the Operations Units and other causes, such as disease, etc."