ZeonChar, those are valid points and a good thing to go by. Feelings can vary depending what one went through, but comparing with others who were in the same time period I found very useful and quite fascinating too.
Now, one thing that does puzzle me is why so many reincarnated Nazis claim to have been Auschwitz staff. Consider the numbers:
17 million Wehrmacht soldiers
3 million Waffen-SS soldiers
Approx. 70.000 of the Totenkopf division served in the KZ camp system. (Which was just one branch of Nazi camp system - there are many others, less known, such as POW camps run by Wehrmacht under Geneva convention/the OFLAG, STALAG/, penitentiary work camps, youth camps, Eastern worker camps, etc. A good introduction is in the book "Forest of The Gods", excerpts available online.)
7000+ SS served at Auschwitz- Birkenau during the existence of the camp.
Of those, only 10% or around 700 are known names, the other records were destroyed at the end of the war, before camp liberation, and has been a desire of Nazi hunters ever since.
There are different Auschwitz staff lists circulating the internet, which count about 200-250 names of SS officers. That counts for about 4% of total Auschwitz SS staff.
That being said, I wonder why every other dead Nazi claims to be on the 4 % list?
I even had somebody asking me why I am not on the list, so I must not have been there... (I have quite a bit verification of things from that camp I've not known in any other way, and yet I am still doubting it because of the very statistics of it.)
The largest part of the war my past life spent in an utterly obscure sub-camp to a penal institution for convicts, which were then transformed to a camp and production facility for Ostarbeiter (Eastern workers). The best verification was to meet someone who was in a similar place, a similar rank and position in their PL, and get to verify the really obscure stuff. Nevertheless, I was transferred to an actual KZ in 1944, and I seem to know a lot about Auschwitz, but as I say, I'm not gonna draw such a conclusion for above mentioned reasons.
PL Victims who believe they died in Auschwitz are a bit "better" off: As the biggest camp complex there were approx. 1 million victims.