After World War 1, Britain's Prime Minister formally apologised to Germany for spreading false rumours that they were, among others, gassing people, bayoneting babies and making soap from dead soldier's corpses. Sound familiar?

300,000 was just the number of concentration camp survivors. It doesn't include the number of people who fled.

Hmmm. I have to say those numbers are odd.

Why do I think that?

Ok .. so we have 9.5 million Jews in continental Europe in 1939 when the war starts. 6 million of those die.

That leaves 3.5 million survivors, right? Those are people who were in Europe when the war started, and they managed to either get out, or survive to the end, and some were in camps, and some were not.

So of the "general survivors" about 400000 are still with us.

So that's like 8.75% "survival rate". Of those Jews that were alive in Europe 1945, around 9% are still with us.

But from the specific group of 300000 Jews that came out of the concentration camps in 1945 ... roughly 30% of them are still with us.

I mean .. you say "most of the survivors still alive today were young during the holocaust."

.. but that is kind of a no-brainer, right? Of course if you are still alive today you were young during the Holocaust.

But apparently there was a much higher percentage of young people being released from concentration camps, compared to the Jews that hadn't been sent to the camps?

But the camps were lethal for children. The gassed and killed people who are unable to work, or weak. Including children, right? "Women, children, and elderly" were selected out. Also - children are just not as hardy as adults and resistant to disease, and starvation.

So you would think the camp victims would be skewed "older" a bit, because the strongest would survive.

But if you were 10 years old in 1945, you would have lived to 85 years old today, right?

So that would mean that 30% of the people who survived the concentration camps were somewhere around 10 years old?

I mean .. they werent older than 20yrs old. Because a 20 year old would be 90 today.

And not many people get to that age. Especially Eastern Europeans born in the 30s, who had an average life expectancy of 60 years.

So not only were 30% of the camp survivors children, but they were very healthy people who outlived the average age of their countrymen by 25 years or so.

Dont those numbers seem weird?

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