How many?
RE: YOUR QUESTION #1: I did give a number. Read my posts carefully again without being blinded by knee-jerk rage and what not!
A friend pm'ed me the following regarding the number:-
On the subject, there were 3.5 million Jews who applied for compensation in Western Europe after the war. 600,000 had probably died in camps by probable execution according to Fr. Military figures published in the Decline and Fall of the Their Reich, some 200,000 had died fighting in Ghettos, some 200,000+ had fled Europe after the war, and an unknown number fled to Russia and survived -X, 300,000 fled to the Russian army and died fighting (Russian army stats), an unknown number fled to Russia and were caught in the German advance and killed - X, 1,000,000 died of natural causes accelerated by wartime starvation in 7 years, and 1.4 million died of Typhus in the camps, (documented by the Red Cross). (total of numbers 7.2 million) There were 7.5 million Jews by Census in Western Europe at the start of the war. (Not 12 million -- European census by that time was semi "computerized" -- i.e. Jacquard cards and machine count and very comprehensive.) Jewish birth rate was extremely low and still birth rate and infant mortality was high because of stress of war and malnutrition. All the unknowns above "add up" to 300,000 to 500,000 people. So it is likely that between 600,000 and 1,100,000 were unjustly killed. A staggering number, and befitting a harsh and cruel police state.
RE: YOUR QUESTION #2. The Law of Karma or Law of Compensation is just a mystical law which devotees of certain religions believe in and which others reject as bunk and bosh, in much the same way as some folks accept Judaism and others don't.
According to the believers, as a law it works INEXORABLY and in an IMPERSONAL way. Hence to those believers, it was plausible that the tragedy that happened in the concentration camps in WWII was IMPERSONAL Karmic action manifesting for some evil deed(s) committed collectively by some particular people in the past. BTW, Karmic action transcends time! (Verily, as you sow, so shall you reap, regardless of who the f--k you may be!) is the very essence of The Law of Karma. ("The consequences of the sins of the fathers visiteth upon their brethren (descendants) for five generations or more....") Also, the purpose of Karma is not to punish but to teach and bring home a lesson at a time when it would be most IMPRESSIVE! Needless to say, what had happened affected the psyches of many people (even non-Jews) in a most impressive way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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