2 a turning away from a course or standard any departure from the modernist orthodoxy was scorned by the city's cultural elite Synonyms deflection, divergence, detour, deviation, divagation, divergency, diversionRelated Words regression, retrogression, reversionNear Antonyms adherence.
Consider the estimates provided by Buszko at the end of his article on Auschwitz, which appeared in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust: 1  Of the 405,000 registered prisoners, 65,000 survived. 2  Of the 16,000 Soviet POW's, 96 survived. 3  Various estimates suggest 1.6 million were murdered.
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