One of the foremost anti-revisionist sites, “Holocaust Denial on Trial” puts the total number of Jews shot by the Einsatzgruppen not at 2 million or 1.3 million, but closer to only 600,000. Adding in other SS and police shootings they get around one million or about half the current propaganda claim. All the figures in this post for shootings are taken from the following website. https://hdot.org/debunking-denial/ezg5-number-killed/ The article comes up with a figure of 1,152,731 people total shot by the four Einsatzgruppen units and other SS and police detachments. It notes that this includes non-Jews as well. So the total number of Jews shot is lower.
“The total number of Jews murdered is at least 1,152,731 across the four Einsatzgruppen units and the Higher SS and Police Leaders.[4] It is important to remember that these numbers refer to all the victims, not just the Jews, although the vast majority of them were Jewish men, women, and children.”
There is no quantification of this “vast majority”. Piper caluculates that out of 1.1 million people to die at Auschwitz about 1 million were Jewish. The shootings in the east probably had a slightly higher percentage of non-Jews so 1 million is a reasonable estimate based upon this total. A large number of people, but only half of the current propaganda claim. More interesting is that only 707,406 of the 1,152,731 total shootings are by the Einsatzgruppen. The other 445,325 are by other SS and police detachments. Here is their breakdown.
Einsatzgruppe A: 363,337
Einsatzgruppe B: 134,000
Einsatzgruppe C: 118,341
Einsatzgruppe D: 91,728
Higher SS and Police Leaders and staff: 445,325
This is important because as the totals from individual camps are lowered the magic six million figure is maintained by shifting the numbers to those shot.
For instance Auschwitz has been reduced from 1.5 million total killed to 1.1 million. https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/majdanek-victims-enumerated-changes-in-the-history-textbooks,44.html Most of these deaths, 1 million being Jews. These deaths rather than being subtracted from the six million total were added to the column of those shot. Likewise Majdanek has been reduced from 360,000 to 78,000 of which 59,000 were Jews (Ibid.). That is why the shootings have increased from less than 500,000 in 1975 (Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews, NY: Holt, Rheinhart and Winston, 1975) to the 2,000,000 figure today.
They are just transferring deaths to keep the six million figure. In 1975 the claim by the Holocaust establishment was that 90% of Jews to die in the Holocaust were gassed (Ibid.). Dawidowicz claimed that 2 million Jews (double the official figure of the Auschwitz Museum today) perished at Auschwitz (Ibid.). She also claimed 1,380,000 Jews died at Majdanek a figure many times greater than the official 59,000 given today by the Majdanek Museum (Ibid.) Those more than two million Jewish deaths had to go somewhere to maintain Dawidowicz’s figure of 5.9 million Holocaust deaths (Ibid). Notice not even Dawidowicz in 1975 would endorse the inflated six million figure. But, the article by “Holocaust Denial on Trial” proves that the numbers for shootings are far lower. There were not two million Jews shot by the Einsatzgruppen.
The tabulation by “Holocaust Denial on Trial” comes up with 707,406 shootings by the Einsatzgruppen, not all of them Jews. To this can be added 445,325 shootings by the SS and other police units that were not part of the Einsatzgruppen. Again not all of those shot were Jews. That means the transfer of at least 1.5 million Jewish deaths from camps to shootings since 1975 is greatly exaggerated.
In total the official tabulations and estimates of direct executions of Jews by shooting and gassing as opposed to demographic losses calculated using flawed census data is only about 3.5 million. Roughly this breaks down to 1 million shot total (only about 600,000 by the Einsatzgruppen), 1 million in Auschwitz, and 1.5 million in Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chelmno, and Majdanek. This does not include deaths from typhus and malnutrition in ghettos and camps, killings by Romanian military and police formations, and a few other smaller categories. But, a bottom up tabulation of all these separate components comes very close to Hilberg’s initial 5.1 million figure (Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961). Of course in between Hilberg and Dawidowicz was the Six Day War in 1967 which as Peter Novick noted in 1999 explains most writing on the Holocaust in the US in the last 58 years.
0 gassings, just under 300,000 dead in all camps and all prisoners of typhus and malnutrition in the last few months. Whatever shootings there were were of partisans and their affiliates, not all Jews, though I am sure there were plenty of “insurgents” in the East, so it was part of warfare. 4 million Jews came looking for reparations, so who needs to bother counting anymore. They suffered no more than anybody else and they were far more involved and responsible for that war than anybody else. I don’t give a damn.