In 1983 , French scholar George Wellers was one of the first to use German data on deportations to estimate the number killed at Auschwitz , arriving at a figure of 1,471,595 dead , including 1.35 million Jews and 86,675 Poles .
In 1983 , French scholar George Wellers was one of the first to use Nazi data on deportations to estimate the number killed at Auschwitz . He calculated a figure of 1.613 million dead , including 1.42 million Jews and 146,000 Poles .