Talk:Timeline of deportations of French Jews to death camps

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Exact number

The article states "The overall total of Jews deported from France is a minimum of 75,721. The exact number is between 75,500 and 76,000." Both sentences were sourced from Serge Klarsfeld's 1996 book, French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial. The discrepancy between that "minimum" and "exact" is jarring – how can the exact number ever be less than the established minimum?

The sentences were copied word for word and inserted by a permanently blocked sockpuppeteer – reasons enough to change it or remove them. But in the interest of preserving the gist of this important information, I suggest we excise the "exact number" speculation. The 75,500 figure truly seems to be a misprint or editorial error: it cannot be mathematically possible according to the tables and notes. I welcome anyone to examine the numbers, as I have. I do hold out hope that an answer might be found elsewhere, but until then the best course is to state the minimum number (another source, added later, seems to support it) and leave well enough alone. It undermines the article to present the reader with a glaring inconsistency, until it can be satisfactorily explained. SteveStrummer (talk) 01:40, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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