This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide. He presents the primary results, in tables and figures, as well as a historical sketch of the major cases of democide, those in which one million or more people were killed by a regime. In Death by Government, Rummel does not aim to describe democide itself, but to determine its nature and scope in order to test the theory that democracies are inherently nonviolent. . . . The underlying principle is that the less freedom people have, the greater the violence; the more freedom, the less the violence.
Yes, they had an oven to burn bodies with disease. Soviet archives contain the german records if the amount of coal vrought to the camp for the entire war and it was just over 2000 tons, which would operate one oven roughly.
Emphasis added.
Clearly, exterminations HAD been on-going for an unspecified period of time.
I'd love to believe that the Nazi regime was the only heavy-handed, war-mongering tyranny that eschewed mass-murder at home.
But the evidence says otherwise.
Source (one of many):
Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 by R. J. Rummel
Kindle version: $25.84, Paperback, $27.20, Hardcover, $120
From the book description at Amazon:
From Rummel's website:
20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
Yes, they had an oven to burn bodies with disease. Soviet archives contain the german records if the amount of coal vrought to the camp for the entire war and it was just over 2000 tons, which would operate one oven roughly.