Why did Rudolf Höss testify that 3 million died at Auschwitz when most estimates I can find are only 1.1 million? Here's a quote from wikipedia:

&gt;I commanded Auschwitz until 1 December 1943, and estimate that at least 2,500,000 victims were executed and exterminated there by gassing and burning, and at least another half million succumbed to starvation and disease, making a total dead of about 3,000,000.

Wouldn't inflating the number be against his own personal interests, especially when facing trial? Or was he truly that ignorant about the amount of deaths at his camp?


I must admit that I am rather ignorant on the subject, apart from what I was taught at school and saw in documentaries. 


Thanks