50% of the registered prisoners in concentration camps were Christian.
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REAL AF with Andy FrisellaOct 28, 2026
The Auschwitz Memorial's breakdown supports roughly half of Auschwitz's registered prisoners being Christian, so the figure holds for registered prisoners but not for everyone deported or killed there, where AAP's fact-check says Jews were the majority of victims. The claim also widens an Auschwitz figure to 'concentration camps' generally, which the sources do not support as a single figure.
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… there, there's just so much, and I think this next piece is gonna get exposed even bigger, 'cause, like you said, I don't think it's necessarily even our government. We talked about the leverage points. Hey, Google something for me. Google something for me. What percentage of Christians were in concentration camps? Says 50% of the registered prisoners were Christian. Mm-hmm. I bet you all didn't know that either, did you? I had no idea. That's news to me. No shit. Nobody talks about that. No shit. Now, is that in the, in that, is that in the, how many Jews fought on the side of Hitler's army? …
REAL AF with Andy Frisella · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The Auschwitz Memorial states the claim is 'entirely false' in the context of the total number of people deported to and murdered at the camp, where Jews were the large majority of victims.[1][2][3]
Supports. The Auschwitz Memorial says that among those registered and assigned camp numbers (about 400,000), Jews were about 50%, and most Poles (140,000 to 150,000) and many others were Christians, so the claim that nearly 50% of registered Auschwitz prisoners were Christian holds on that measure.[1]
Context. AAP fact-checkers and historians say Jews were the majority of Auschwitz victims, since most were murdered on arrival and never registered, so registered-prisoner counts understate them.[2][3][5]
Context. A 1940-era TIME article claimed over 80% of concentration camp prisoners were Christians, a broad figure that does not match the Auschwitz registration breakdown and is not a reliable general statistic; the USHMM notes Christians were not targeted as a group.[4][6]
Context. The claim generalizes an Auschwitz-specific figure to 'concentration camps' in general, which the sources do not address as a single figure; the post itself framed the question around Christians in concentration camps and cited the registered-prisoner figure.[1]
Sources
6 sources: 5 not rated, 1 tier 2
- 1The claim that nearly 50 per cent of Auschwitz prisoners were ... - Xx.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 2False claim twists truth about Auschwitz death numbers - AAP Newsaapnews.aap.com.au · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 3False claim twists truth about Auschwitz death numbers | AAPaap.com.au · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 4Religion: German Martyrstime.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 5New research details Catholic inmates at Auschwitz - iObserve.orgiobserve.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Churches and Christian Leaders in Nazi Germanyperspectives.ushmm.org · not rated · cited for: context
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