I just post this as a new one, as perhaps you are too busy to keep track of replies to older threads of yours:
I think most of the dissimilarities /"problems" as to the Concentration camps figures you give, or more correctly, the Watchtower literature gives, is due to the perspective from which it is seen, what the articles are really about. When you quote from the 1974 Yearbook, that article deals with the history of the German witnesses. Other articles deals with for example Concentration camps in Germany, where witnesses from other countries would also be included; other again include or tell about the total persecution, including inprisonment in "ordinary" prisons etc. So one should be a bit careful not just to cut and paste, but to see what is the total amount of people discussed (German, Europe, east Europe etc.). One should, added thereto, not be blind to the fact that research is continually done in this area, new documents found, new life-stories unearthed, and that the whole picture probably is not yet completed, hence varying or increasing or decreasing numbers as to Hesse's or Garbe's or any other researcher's work. German researchers are very careful in their work, and I do not think one should dismiss these two, who are heads of departments in various Concentration camp museums etc.
I think most of the dissimilarities /"problems" as to the Concentration camps figures you give, or more correctly, the Watchtower literature gives, is due to the perspective from which it is seen, what the articles are really about. When you quote from the 1974 Yearbook, that article deals with the history of the German witnesses. Other articles deals with for example Concentration camps in Germany, where witnesses from other countries would also be included; other again include or tell about the total persecution, including inprisonment in "ordinary" prisons etc. So one should be a bit careful not just to cut and paste, but to see what is the total amount of people discussed (German, Europe, east Europe etc.). One should, added thereto, not be blind to the fact that research is continually done in this area, new documents found, new life-stories unearthed, and that the whole picture probably is not yet completed, hence varying or increasing or decreasing numbers as to Hesse's or Garbe's or any other researcher's work. German researchers are very careful in their work, and I do not think one should dismiss these two, who are heads of departments in various Concentration camp museums etc.