In 1989 the research department of the Auschwitz Museum estimated that the total number of people killed at the Auschwitz group of camps was about 1.15 million, of whom about 85-90% were Jews. The overall figure of 1.15 million was deliberately cautious, but most serious debate since then has suggested an overall figure of between 1.15 and 1.5 million dead, and the percentage of Jews has generally been around 85%. Most modern Holocaust scholarship suggests figures in the range 1.15-1.5 million.
(Earlier figures, many of which are higher, are considered completely unreliable). Please see the link for a discussion of the figures.
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