According to Wikipedia, “Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II”. The number of victims varies depending on who you ask. Wikipedia states the official estimate as 78,000.
While Britannica.com likes to go with a bigger estimate of 360,000.
As Wikipedia mentioned, after the war the Soviets ‘grossly overestimated’ the number murdered in Majdanek. The following is from a transcript of the Nuremberg trials where on February 19, 1946 the claim of 1.5 million victims was made official. Remember that all of alleged death camps were in Poland and therefore behind the Iron Curtain.
The current (11/16/2022) Holocaust Encyclopedia website mentions 5 killing centers which doesn’t include Majdanek. This makes them at odds with Wikipedia’s statement that Majdanek was a extermination camp.
But what’s this? An archived snapshot of the same page from April 29, 2021 shows a claim of 6 extermination camps which includes Majdanek (thank you CODOH Forum for finding this discrepancy). I believe George Orwell would have had something to say about this.
Because the orthodox Holocaust historians know that it is bad optics to just erase the status of Majdanek as a extermination camp they provide an explanation, be it on a different page. Here we can see that the Holocaust claims about Majdanek being a death camp that have been around for decades have been officially revised.
So, Majdanek went from a extermination camp responsible for 1.5 million deaths to a concentration camp that ‘occasionally functioned as a killing site’. Despite this official revision, and many others, one is made out to be evil, stupid and, depending on where you live, criminal for simply questioning Holocaust claims. Different sources can’t even agree on key facts! This is why open and honest discussion is needed for this alleged historical event.
If you’d like in depth knowledge on Majdanek I recommend reading Concentration Camp Majdanek—A Historical and Technical Study, by Jürgen Graf and Carlo Mattogno. You can also check out this thread from the CoDoH forum.
Actually it went from 2 million
What is also important is that the lies told about Majdanek must not be forgotten or people just move on to the next item
Thanks for the feedback!
It’s true that there’s all sorts of hugely different death counts of Majdanek and all the camps. I chose to display the 1.5 figure because of its use in the Nuremberg trials.
The format of this website is short, single issue posts. There will be more about Majdanek in the future as I continue to add content. If there is something in particular you’d like covered please let me know!
In their article on gas Chambers ,Wikipedia shows a photo of a Prussian-blue stained room from Majdanek. There are no holes in the roof hence there’s no explanation of how lice pellets were introduced. Is it correct to assume this is a delousing chamber being used dishonestly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chamber
Do you mean that Holocaust affirmers are dishonestly presenting the delousing chambers as homicidal gas chambers? Then the answer is yes. I will be doing more on Majdanek in the future, in the meantime you can check out these sources if you are interested in learning more.
https://pdfhost.io/v/aypetXVe5_Majdanek_Presentation
https://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=5