# logistics of the holocaust

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 29, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logistics-of-the-holocaust/226583 "2004-01-29T14:14:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logistics-of-the-holocaust/226583/21 "2004-01-29T17:09:20Z")

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[http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/body-disposal/](http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/body-disposal/)

Looks fairly even-handed and informative.

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**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logistics-of-the-holocaust/226583/22 "2004-01-29T22:21:48Z")

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I have the book “Babi Yar” by Anatoli Kuznetsov who was a child in Kiev during the Nazi occupation. It’s a great read.

I don’t know if it’s still in print but the copy I had was in three different fonts. One was the original type, another bolder type showed what the censors cut when it was published in the Soviet Union, then another font to show parts he added after he defected.

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**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logistics-of-the-holocaust/226583/23 "2004-01-29T23:39:48Z")

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> [@artemis](#):
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> [T]he “beauty” of Hitler’s industrialization of mass murder was that it only required a few hundred individuals to fully staff a killing center capable of murdering tens of thousands of people a year.

You’re underestimating the capacity of the system. Hiberg’s final numbers for the number of bodies the system was able to “process” are substantially higher. By death camp:

Auschwitz 1,000,000  
Treblinka \<750,000  
Belzec 550,000  
Sobibor \<200,000  
Kulmhof 150,000  
Lublin 50,000

Aside possibly from the latter, this is significantly more than tens of thousands per year per camp. But they managed it.

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