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Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

  • Written by Lewi Stone, Professor of Biomathematics, RMIT University
A concentration camp in Poland.AkzuzkA/shutterstock.com

Even though the Holocaust is one of the best documented genocides in a historical sense, there is surprisingly little quantitative dataavailable, even on major critical events.

What’s more, this history is often told in figures too large to comprehend on the human scale. Large numbers...

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