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Holocaust
Deaths
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Country/Region
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Low
Estimate
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High
Estimate
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Germany
(1938 Borders)
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125,000
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130,000
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Austria
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58,0000
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65,000
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Belgium
& Luxembourg
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24,700
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29,000
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Bulgaria
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0
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7,000
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Czechoslovakia
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245,000
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277,000
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France
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64,000
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83,000
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Greece
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58,000
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65,000
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Hungary
& Ukraine
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300,000
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402,000
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Italy
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7,500
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8,000
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Netherlands
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101,800
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106,000
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Norway
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677
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760
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Poland
& USSR
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3,700,000
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4,565,000
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Romania
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40,000
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220,000
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Yugoslavia
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54,000
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60,000
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TOTAL
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4,778,677
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6,017,760
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Source: Nizkor
Project
statistics derived from Yad Vashem and Fleming, Hitler
and the Final Solution.
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The
world outside Nazi Europe received numerous press reports in the
1930s about the persecution of Jews. By 1942 the governments of
the United States and Great Britain had confirmed reports about
the Final Solution - Germany's intent to kill all the Jews
of Europe. However, influenced by antisemitism and fear of a
massive influx of refugees, neither country modified their refugee
politics. No specific attempts to stop or slow the genocide were
made until mounting pressure eventually forced the United States
to undertake limited rescue efforts in 1944.
In Europe, rampant antisemitism incited citizens of many
German-occupied countries to collaborate with the Nazis in their
genocidal policies. There were, however, individuals and groups in
every occupied nation who, at great personal risk, helped hide
those targeted by the Nazis.
One nation, Denmark,
saved most of its Jews in a nighttime rescue operation in 1943 in
which Jews were ferried in fishing boats to safety in neutral
Sweden.
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