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.
More than six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust. At first, they were told that they were merely being relocated and pressed into the service of the Nazi war effort in order to âredeemâ themselves.In truth, however, many would be summarily executed as soon as they arrived.his was the time when millions of people were deported from Germany and occupied territories in order to be gassed, shot, or worked to death in camps such as Auschwitz. Until that time, many people even within Germany had not been acquainted with the death camps.