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2025-01-30 23:02:17 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5EE13622383B89A438B9B960C778CC5CC19313546F995618FF9EBDF44D5B6201
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Misleading: Jewish death toll at Auschwitz wasn’t revised from 4M to 1M. Early Soviet claims inflated exclusively non-Jewish death of Communist Poles in Auschwitz to 4M as Cold War propaganda. Research has routinely confirmed total Auschwitz deaths of ~1.1M, ~90% Jewish. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/17/world/poland-agrees-to-change-auschwitz-tablets.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/05/07/fixing-the-numbers-at-auschwitz/ https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/documenting-numbers-of-victims-of-the-holocaust-and-nazi-persecution
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