taylor does not claim to be definitive historical statement on the issue of numbers instead he cites two german historian bergander and reichert and gives the range their research returned it is evans who give a definitive number in research by the dresden historian friedrich reichert was published using a previously unused source which convincingly reduced bergander's figure of to this figure can be regarded as close to definitive however in the wikipedia article a range of numbers by recently publish historians is given as is dictated by wikipedia policies