At 5 reichsmark per kilogram (that is, per 2.2 lbs.) and an overdosage of 5–7 kilograms for each group of 1,500 victims, the usual practice according to the postwar testimony of Commandant Höss, the average cost of murder per head ultimately came out to about two German pfennig (pennies) a person, which is to say less than one U.S. cent in 1942.
