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Posts: 264 Mar 28 12 10:09 AM	Tags : None Remove this ad The Korherr Report Long Version My translation of the document transcribed under http://www.ns-archiv.de/verfolgung/korherr/korherr-lang.php Quote: The Inspector for Statistics At the Reichsführer SS [Stamp: Secret Reich Matter] THE FINAL SOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN JEWISH QUESTION ================================================== Statistical Report C o n t e n t s: I. Introduction II. The Balance of Jews in Germany III. Jewish Population Weakness IV. The Emigration of Jews from Germany V. The Evacuation of the Jews VI. The Jews in the Ghettos VII. The Jews in the Concentration Camps VIII. Jews in Penitentiaries IX. The Use of Jewish Labor X. European Balance of Jews ----- THE FINAL SOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN JEWISH QUESTION Statistical Report I. INTRODUCTION In order to make a balance of the results on the way to the solution of the Jewish question it is necessary to determine the number of Jews and its development. The contradictions in the data about the number of Jews, however, make necessary an introduction in the sense that numbers about Jewry are always to be taken with special reservation and can lead to wrong conclusions without a knowledge as to their source and as to how they came about. The sources of mistakes lie mainly in the nature of Jewry and its historical development, in its millenary restless wandering, the countless admissions and withdrawals, the efforts at assimilation, the mixtures with the host peoples, the efforts of Jews to avoid registration and finally the wrong or wrongly interpreted statistics about Jewry. Furthermore statistics – partially as a statistical makeshift, partially due to the wide coincidence between Jewish faith and Jewish race, partially in ignorance of the idea of race, partially due to the religious thinking of the respective time – have until lastly recorded Jews according to their religious confession and almost never according to their race. The recording of the race requires a training of many years and also ancestry research. It also turned out to be difficult mainly in the southern and eastern countries, given that despite all coincidence a uniform Jewish race was difficult to delimitate. The adhesion to Mosaic or Israeli faith in turn is no fully valid proof, given that due to the former Jewish missionary movement with its taking in of heathens and Christians, and also due to conversions to Jewry and mixed marriages in more recent times, there are not a few confessional Jews of non-Jewish race, while on the other hand forced Christianizing and the number of baptized Jews that again increased in the last century, together with the number of non-confessionals of Jewish race, brought down the number of Jews. In 1893 Leroy-Beaulieu estimated the loss of Jewry to Christianity at four to ten times its present-day adherents; according to Maurice Fishberg and Mathias Mieses three times the actual number of Jews have merged with Aryan Europe. Even Hans Günther estimates the number of Jews in Germany at double the number of Jews of Mosaic faith who have German citizenship. The Lithuanian Jew Brutzkus even goes as far as to consider the Jews of Berlin as more pure Europeans, according to the composition of their blood, than the Germans of Berlin. In accordance with these opinions the number of racial Jews including half-breeds in Europe has been frequently calculated as three times as high as that of the confessional Jews (twice as high in Eastern Europe, four times as high in Central Europe, even eight times as high in the rest of Europe), and the portion of more or less Jewish blood in the European population has been calculated at more or less 6 per cent. On the other hand Burgdörfer estimated the number of Jews in Germany in 1933 at 850 000 full, half and quarter Jews (with 502 799 confessional Jews) and the number of Jews in Austria in 1934 at 300-400 000 (with 191 738 confessional Jews). The recording of racial Jews at the German census on 1939 resulted in 307 892 confessional Jews and the only a little higher number of 330 892 full Jews, 72 738 half Jews and 42 811 quarter Jews, numbers that are by no means to be considered reliable especially in what concerns the half and quarter Jews. The numbers obtained can thus only be considered as minimum numbers. They came about through the question “Was or is one of the 4 grandparents a full Jew?” contained in a “supplementary form” to the list of households of the 1939 census, which had to be answered by “yes” or “no” for each grandparent. As the supplementary form was to be delivered in a closed envelope and thus beyond control on site, it was wrongly filled in. In many cases only lines were drawn in the respective field, instead of an answer. The first official attempt to record the Jews according to their race was immediately sabotaged by the Jews. It happened at the Austrian census of 7 March 1923. Vice Chancellor Dr. Frank (Greater German Peoples Party) signed a decree shortly before the census, according to which under question 7 of the census sheet (language) "ethnicity and race" were also to be indicated. As the census sheets had already been printed, this was only pointed out in a red reminder sheet without clarification and examples. The Austrian Jews sabotaged this question pursuant to the request, forwarded to its readers by the Jewish-Marxist press on the day immediately before the census date, to answer the question about the race with “white”. The result was that “the white race turned out to be as widely represented in Austria as the sphere of influence of the Jewish-Marxist press and political parties was”. Only in Kärnten and in the Burgenland the processing of the material was carried out with rather dubious success, in all other federal states and principally in Vienna, however, it was given up as being pointless. II. THE BALANCE OF JEWS IN GERMANY The following data about the number and development of Jews in Germany are based on official census data and other official records of the Reich and on scientific calculations and estimations, but they have mainly been prepared by the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany and by the cult communities in Vienna and Prague, who work with counts, counting forms for population movements, extrapolations and estimates. These Jewish entities work under the control of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt [Reich Main Security Office] and for its purposes. Apart from the dubious data about the initial numbers the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany seems to produce reliable work. On the basis of the statistics prepared by this entity and so far checked by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the following balance on the development of Jewry from before the taking of power (30.1.1933 in the Old Reich, March 1938 in Austria and March 1939 in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia) until 01.01.1943 can be drawn: 1. Balance of Jews in the Old Reich including Sudetengau and Danzig Number of Jews in the Old Reich(without Sudetengau and Danzig) on 30.1.1933 around 561 000 Reduction between 30.1.33 an 1.1.43 through Excess mortality (Old Reich ) - 61 193 ~~Excess~~ emigration - 352 534 Off-going (Evacuation) - 100 516 - 514 243 Increase from 30.1.33 to 1.1.43 through Incorporation of the Sudeten- Land + 2 649 x) other changes (Danzig immigration, emigration, authorized withdrawals, recognition as I. degree half breed, new recording, rectification of data sheets + 1 921 + 4 570 Number of Jews in the Old Reich (with Sudetengau and Danzig) on 1.1.1943 51 327 2. Balance of Jews in the Ostmark[Austria]] Number of Jews in the Ostmark on 1.3.1938 around 220 000 Reduction from 1.3.38 to 1.1.43 through Excess mortality - 14 509 ~~Excess~~ emigration - 149 124 Off-going (Evacuation) - 47 555 Other changes _______- 710 - 211 898 Number of Jews in the Ostmark on 1.1.1943 8 102 3. Balance of Jews in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia Number of Jews in the Protectorate on 15.3.1943 118 310 Reduction from 15.3.39 to 1.1.43 through Excess mortality - 7 074 ~~Excess~~ emigration - 26 009 Off-going (Evacuation) - 69 677 - 102 760 Number of Jews in the Protectorate on 1.1.1943 15 550 _______________ x) This number of 2 649 Jews in the Sudetenland was established during the census of 1939. Prior to the incorporation of the Sudetenland into the Reich the number of Jews was around 3 . . who however very quickly, without crossing a state border and without losses in patrimony, left for the Protectorate. In this balance the newly acquired eastern territories (except for Danzig) are not included. A balance for these cannot yet be made. However, there are several estimates about the number of Jews in these areas, which should lead to a number of about 630 000. In addition to these there are 160,000 Jews in the Bialystok district and around 1.3 million Jews in the General Government as at the time of its constitution. This would lead to a total number of Jews in the whole German area (without the occupied eastern territories) of about 2.5 million x) at the end of 1939, the greatest past thereof in the new East. On 1.1.1943 the Reich without the new eastern territories, the old-age ghetto Theresienstadt and the labor usage within the scope of the Organisation Schmelt had only 74 979 Jews, thereof 51 327 in the Old Reich, 8 102 in the Ostmark and 15 550 in the Protectorate. In the Old Reich with the Sudetenland there are now only 9.2 per cent of the number of Jews on the day of the taking over of power. On 30.1.1943 their number has been further reduced to 48 242 or 8.6 per cent, on 25.2.1943 even further to 44 589 or 7.9 per cent. In Berlin, where already in 1880 there lived one-eighth, in 1910 more than a quarter and in 1933 almost a one third of the Jews of Germany, there are on 1.1.1943 no less than 32 999 or 64.3 per cent of all Jews of the Old Reich, on 30.1.1943 still 30 121, on 28.2.1943 still 27 281. In the Ostmark there are Jews only in Vienna. Of the 51 327 Jews in the Old Reich 23 197 are men and 28 130 are women. 40 351 are confessional Jews, 10 976 are non-confessional Jews, 16 760 live in mixed marriages. In the Ostmark the number is 4 803 (out of 8 102), in the Protectorate it is 6 211 (out of 15 550). III. JEWISH POPULATION WEAKNESS The balance of Jews in Germany shows an extraordinary excess mortality that is due not only to a very high mortality of the Jews, but also to the marked scarcity of births. Thus the natural population development in the Old Reich including the Sudetenland from 1933 to 1942 has been as follows (according to the estimates and date of the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany, given that the counting by confessional Jews is much more complicated and unreliable): _______________ x) Without Lemberg district with around 700 000 Jews. Births and Deaths of Jews in the Old Reich (calculated and estimated until 1939) Years Births Deaths Excess mortality(-) 1933 3 425 8 925 - 5 500 1934 2 300 8 200 - 5 900 1935 2 500 8 100 - 5 600 1936 2 300 8 000 - 5 700 1937 2 100 8 000 - 5 900 1938 1 000 7 448 - 6 448 1939 610 8 136 - 7 526 1940 396 6 199 - 5 803 1941 351 6 249 - 5 898 1942 239 7 657 - 7 418 1933-1942 15 221 76 914 - 61 693 The excess mortality from the day of taking over of power (30.1.1933) until 1.1.1943 in the Old Reich including the Sudetenland is 61 693; this is the result of 14 921 births versus 76 114 deaths. While the migration on the one hand and the absence of recording in the first year and deficiency of recording since, especially in regard to deaths in the concentration camps, by the Reich Association of the Jews on the other hand leave room for many errors, the approximate overview shows a constant number of deaths despite the reduction of the number of Jews. Jewish mortality thus amounts to 80-85 (against the European average of 10 to 15) in 1000 (in the calendar year 1942). What is further to be noted is the decrease of births, which by far anticipates the decrease of the number of Jews. The Jewish birth rate in the Old Reich thus amounts to only 2 1/2 in 1 000 in 1942. Also in the Ostmark between 1.3.138 and 1.1.1943 there were 15 188 Jewish deaths for only 679 Jewish births. In the Old Reich there were only 14 Jewish children born in December 1942, 7 an 8 in January and February 1943, respectively. It must in this respect be taken into account that Jewry has topped the civilized Western states in lack of births since decades, as can be seen on hand of the confessional statistics of births. The Jew Felix Theilhaber already in 1911 pointed to the ‘Demise of German Jewry’ resulting from this, which was only covered up by the constant influx of Eastern Jewish blood. This phenomenon was only partially related to the over-aging of European big city Jewry: It was mainly due to a real lack of life strength. In the actual extraordinary mortality of the Jews and the extremely low birth rate, however, the Jewish age structure is also a factor to be considered. After their best classes have gone off, the Jews in Germany are mainly old people, for which reason their age structure, when graphically represented, has the form of a club, according to the objectively accurate terminology of the Reich Association of the Jews. There is a lack of children and reproductive classes, whereas the classes of older people are not only much stronger in proportion than the younger classes, but also much stronger in absolute numbers. This is also one of the reasons for the excessive suicide rate, given that suicide is primarily a cause of death of older people. IV. THE EMIGRATION OF JEWS FROM GERMANY The migration of Jews from eastern, central and western Europe and the whole of Europe overseas, mostly to the United States of America, is a generally observed phenomenon. Many Jews emigrated from Germany mainly between 1840 and 1870, but after 1870 emigration stopped almost completely. Now in turn the Germans emigrated. The Jewish emigration from Germany since 1933, in a certain sense a recuperation of the movement that did not occur in 1870, caught the special attention of the whole civilized world, especially the democratic countries ruled by Jews. It was attempted by the most varied entities with the most varied methods to record the number and structure of the emigrants. Yet no uniform results were achieved. The numbers of the German emigration statistics, those of the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany and of the Israeli cult communities in Vienna and Prague, the numerous foreign recordings, calculations and estimates, the statistics of international Jewry and the numbers of scientific studies show great discrepancies among each other. Professor Zielenziger in Amsterdam, for instance, considered that there were 135 000 emigrants from the taking over of power until the end of 1937, while the Reich Association of the Jews concluded that there had been 203 000 emigrants. Since 1938 emigration increased considerably, but it ended almost completely (save for a few exceptions each month) with the interdiction of Jewish emigration in the autumn of 1941. The Reich Association of Jews and the Israeli cult communities in Vienna and Prague concluded on the following high emigration numbers until 1.1. 1943 (including double counting): Emigrants from Number Period Old Reich with Sudetenland 352 543 (30.1.33-1.1.43) Ostmark 149 124 ( 1.3.38-1.1.43) Protectorate 26 009 (15.2.39-1.1.43) The hurried emigration in the beginning made exact data impossible. Also the destination of emigration, insofar as it was a European country, is in many cases to be considered a mere intermediate station. Of the emigrants from the Old Reich about 144 000 went to other European countries, about 57 000 went to the USA, 54 000 to South America, 10 000 to Central America, 53 000 to Palestine, 15 000 to Africa (mainly South Africa), 16 000 to Asia (China), 4 000 to Australia. Of the 144 000 Jews who emigrated to European countries more than 32 000 went to England alone, 39 000 went to Poland or the General Government, 18 000 went to France, 8000 to Italy, 7 500 to the Netherlands, 6 000 to Belgium. It is to be assumed that the greater part of these emigrants went on overseas from said countries. For the Jewish emigrants from the Ostmark, the following destinations were indicated: 65 500 to European countries, 50 000 to America, 20 000 to Asia, 9 000 to Palestine, 2 600 to Africa, 2 000 to Australia. V. THE EVACUATION OF THE JEWS The evacuation of the Jews replaced the emigration of the Jews, at least on the territory of the Reich. It was extensively prepared since the prohibition of Jewish emigration in the autumn of 1941 and to a large extent carried out throughout the Reich territory in the year 1942. In the balance of Jewry it is referred to as "off-going". Until 1.1.1943, according to the records of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the following numbers went off: From the Old Reich with Sudetenland 100 516 Jews From the Ostmark 47 555 " From the Protectorate 69 677 " Sum 217 748 Jews In these numbers the Jews evacuated to the old-age ghetto Theresienstadt are also included. All evacuations on the territory of the Reich and including the eastern territories and further in the German area of power and influence in Europe from October 1939 or later until 31.12.1942 resulted in the following numbers: 1. Evacuation of Jews from Baden and the Palatinate to France ....... 6 504 Jews 2. Evacuation of Jews from the Reich territory incl. the Protectorate and Bialystok district to the East...... 170 642 " 3. Evacuation of Jews from the Reich area and the Protectorate to Theresienstadt................. 87 193 4. Transportation of Jews from the eastern provinces to the Russian East: ............................ 1 449 692 " The following numbers were sifted through the camps in the General Government ............. ........ 1 274 166 Jews through the camps in the Warthegau..... 145 301 Jews 5. Evacuation from other countries, namely: France (insofar as occupied before 10.11.1942 )............................... 41 911 Jews Netherlands........................................... 38 571 " Belgium................................................. 16 886 " Norway ..................................................... 532 " Slovakia................................................. 56 691 Jews Crotia ............. ... 4 927 " ------------------------------ Evacuations total(incl. Theresienstadt and incl. special treatment)............................. 1 873 549 Jews w./o Theresienstadt.......................... 1 786 356 " 6. In addition, according to data from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt there is the evacuation of…………………. 633 300 Jews in the Russian territories incl. the former Baltic countries since the beginning of the Eastern Campaign. The above numbers do not include the inmates of ghettoes and concentration camps. The evacuations from Slovakia and Croatia were carried out by these states themselves. VI. THE JEWS IN THE GHETTOS There must be mentioned here: 1. The old age ghetto Theresienstadt, to which there were led a total of: 87 193 Jews, thereof from the Reich 47 471 (Ostmark 14 222) " " Protectorate 39 722. At the beginning of the year 1943 it had a total of Jewish inmates: 49 392 Thereof with German nationality 24 313 Protectorate nationality 25 079 The reduction occurred mainly by deaths. Besides Theresienstadt there are on the territory of the Reich a number of Jewish old age and sick homes with smaller capacity, which however are considered as neither ghettoes nor evacuation sites. 2. The ghetto Litzmannstadt at the beginning of 1943 had 87 180 Jews, thereof 83 133 with former Polish nationality. 3. The numbers of Jews mainly placed in residual ghettos of the General Government as of 31.12.1942 are indicated or estimated as follows: District Number of Jews Cracow 37 000 Radom 29 000 Lublin 20 000 (estimated) Warsaw 50 000 Lemberg 161 514 General Gov. sum 297 914 VII. THE JEWS IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS In the concentration camps there were, from the taking over of power to 31.12.1942 73 417 interments of Jews thereof released 36 943 died 27 347 Remainder as per 31.12.42: 9 127 Jews It must be taken into account that the number of internments of Jews is higher than the number of Jews in the concentration camps, as repeated internments of one Jew are counted repeatedly. Not included are the Jews accommodated in the concentration camps Auschwitz and Lublin within the scope of the evacuation action. For the various concentration camps we have, divided by internments, releases, deaths and the status as of 31.12.1942, the following numbers: Jews in the Concentration Camps Concentration Camp_Internments_ Releases_ Deaths_ Status as of 31.12.1942 Lublin/Men_ 23 409_ 4 509_ 14 217_ 4 683 Lublin/Women_ 2 849_ 59_ 131_ 2 659 Auschwitz/Men_ 4 917_ 1_ 3 716_ 1 200 Auschwitz/Women_ 932_ - _ 720_ 212 Buchenwald_ 16 827_ 13 805_ 2 795_ 227 Mauthausen/Gusen_ 2 064_ -_ 1 985_ 79 Sachsenhausen_ 7 960_ 6 570_ 1 344_ 46 Stutthof/Men_ 28_ -_ 13_ 15 Stutthof/Women_ 3_ -_ -_ 3 Ravensbrück/Women_ 1 321_ 531_ 787_ 3 Ravensbrück/Men_ 273_ 44_ 229_ - Dachau_ 12 026_ 11 140_ 886_ - Groß-Rosen_ 231_ -_ 231_ - Lichtenburg_ 195_ 195_ -_ - Neuengamme_ 192_ 2_ 190_ - Floßenbürg_ 80_ 2_ 78_ - Sachsenburg_ 52_ 52_ -_ - Esterwegen_ 36_ 33_ 3_ - Niederhagen_ 12_ -_ 12_ - Natzweiler_ 10_ -_ 10_ - Sum all camps_73 417_ 36 943_ 27 347_9 127 [Underscore space markers between columns are mine -RM] VIII. JEWS IN PENITENTIARIES At the beginning of the year 1943 there were in the penitentiaries on the territory of the Reich 458 Jews, distributed among men and women and the various types of detention as follows: Men Women Sum Criminal detention 350 78 428 Security detention 29 - 29 Work House - 1 1 Penitentiaries Together 379 79 458 IX. THE USE OF JEWISH LABOR Working for the war effort at the beginning of the year 1943 there were on the territory of the Reich 185 776 Jews They were employed as follows: 1) within the inspector areas of the security police and the SD (without Posen and without Soviet Russian Jews) 21 659, thereof 18 546 with German nationality, 107 with Protectorate nationality, 2 519 stateless and 487 foreigners. They were distributed by the inspection areas (without Posen) as follows: Berlin 15 100 Königsberg 2) 96 Braunschweig 110 Munich 313 Breslau 1) 2 451 Nürnberg 89 Danzig - Salzburg 7 Dresden 485 Stettin 18 Düsseldorf 673 Stuttgart 178 Hamburg 497 Vienna 1 226 Kassel 259 Wiesbaden 139 __________ 1) without Organization Schmelt 2)without Soviet Russian Jews 2) in the inspector area Königsberg there are a further 18 435 foreign, i.e. almost exclusively Soviet Russian Jews. 3) in the inspector area Posen there are in ghetto and camp employment 95 112 mainly Polish Jews. 4) within the scope of Organization Schmelt (Breslau) there are 50 570 Jews, thereof 42 382 stateless and 8 188 foreigners. X. EUROPEAN BALANCE OF JEWS The collapse of European Jewry was initiated decades ago by the population demise of European big city Jewry on the one hand and Jewish emigration on the other. The Jewish statistician Lestschinsky in 1927 clarified the reduction of European Jewry as follows: "At the beginning of the 19th century 85 % of all Jews lived in Europe, 80 % in Russia, Austria-Hungary and Germany alone; in America there were only 2 - 3 000 Jews at this time. In 1925 63 % of all Jews lived in Europe; within the borders of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia there were only 57 % of all Jews, while in America there were 30 % and in the rest of the world 7 %". According to the calculations of the Reich Institute of Statistics the part of European Jews in 1880 was even 88.4 per cent, while in 1937 it was only 60.4 per cent. In 1943 the European part of World Jewry should still be 1/3. Around 1930 and in the last years the number of Jews in some more important European states was the following: State_Census in year_Number of Jews_More recent counting or estimate:_Year_Number of Jews in 1000_per cent of population of host people Old Reich_ 1933/35_ 502 799_ 1943_ 51_ 0.07 Austria_ 1934_ 191 481_ 1943_ 8_ 0.1 Czechoslovakia_ 1930_ 356 830_ ._ ._ . - Protectorate_ ._ ._ 1943_ 16_ 0.2 Danzig_ 1929_ 10 448_ ._ ._ . Memel Area_ 1925_ 2 402_ 1937_ 3_ 2.0 Belgium_ ._ ._ 1937_ 80_ 1.0 Bulgaria_ 1934_ 48 398_ 1937_ 50_ 0.8 Finland_ ._ ._ 1937_ 2_ 0.04 France_ ._ ._ 1937_ 280_ 0.7 Greece_ 1928_ 72 791_ 1937_ 90_ 1.1 Great Britain_ 1931/33_ 234 000_ 1937_ 345_ 0.7 Italy_1930_47 825_1937_52_0.1 Ireland_ ._ ._ 1936_ 4_ 0.1 Yugoslavia_ 1930_ 68 405_ 1937_ 75_ 0.3 Latvia_ 1935_ 93 479_ 1937_ 96_ 4.9 Lithuania_ 1923_ 155 125_ 1937_ 175_ 7.4 Netherlands_ 1930_ 111 917_ 1937_ 135_ 1.6 Poland_ 1930_ 3 113 933_ 1937_ 3 300_ 9.6 Romania_ 1930_ 984 213_ 1941_ 302 1)_ 2.2 Slovakia_ ._ ._ 1940_ 89_ 3.4 Soviet Russia_ 1926_ 2 570 330_ 1939_4 600 2)_ 2.4 Hungary_ 1930_ 444 567_ 1940_ 750 3)_ 5.8 __________ 1) New territorial status 2) New territorial status, with East Poland; the number was estimated. 3) New territorial status; the number was calculated [Underscore space markers and “:” after “More recent counting or estimate” are mine RM] The total number of Jews in the world in 1937 is generally estimated at around 17 million, thereof more than 10 million in Europe. They concentrate or concentrated mainly in the former Polish-Russian areas occupied by Germany between the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland and between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, further in the centers of commerce and the Rhine area of Central and Western Europe and on the coasts of the Mediterranean. From 1937 to the beginning of 1943 the number of Jews in Europe, partially due to emigration, partially due to the excess mortality of the Jews in Central and Western Europe, partially due to the evacuations especially in the more strongly populated Eastern Territories which are here counted as off-going, should have diminished by an estimated 4 million. It must not be overlooked in this respect that of the deaths of Soviet Russian Jews in the occupied Eastern territories only a part was recorded, whereas deaths in the rest of European Russia and at the front are not included at all. In addition there are movements of Jews inside Russia to the Asian part which are unknown to us. The movement of Jews from the European countries outside the German influence is also of a largely unknown order of magnitude. On the whole European Jewry should since 1933, i.e. in the first decade of National Socialist German power, should have lost almost half of its population. Custom Signature *Quote:* Denial of generally known historical facts should not be punishable. For those who maintain, for instance, that Germany did not take part in World War I or that Adenauer fought at Issus in 333, their own stupidity is punishment enough. The same should apply to the denial of the horrors and crimes of the recent German past. ~ A German jurist by the name of Baumann in the German juridical magazine NJW, quoted in: Bailer-Galanda/Benz/Neugebauer (ed.), Die Auschwitzleugner, Berlin 1996, page 261 (my translation).
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Posts: 264 Mar 28 12 10:10 AM	The Korherr Report Short Version My translation from the German original transcribed under http://www.ns-archiv.de/verfolgung/korherr/korherr-kurz.php Quote: [Seal: Secret Reich Matter] THE FINAL SOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN JEWISH QUESTION ================================================== Statistical Report Necessary Preamble. Jew statistics must always be taken with reservations, as special mistakes can always be expected when recording Jewry in numbers. The sources of mistakes lie mainly in the nature of Jewry and its historical development, in its delimination, in its millenary restless wandering, the countless admissions and withdrawals, the efforts at assimilation, the mixtures with the host peoples and mainly the efforts of Jews to avoid registration. Furthermore statistics, partially as a statistical makeshift, partially due to the wide coincidence between Jewish faith and Jewish race, partially in ignorance of the idea of race, partially due to the religious thinking of the respective time, have until lastly recorded Jews according to their religious confession and almost never according to their race. The recording of Jews according to their race is also very difficult - mainly due to the external reduction of Jewry due to withdrawal, change of confession, racial mixture further in the past and camouflage, as is shown by the failed recording of the racial Jews in Austria in 1923 and the recording of the half and quarter Jews in the German census of 1939. Numbers of Jews can generally only be considered minimum numbers, the margin of error increasing as the share of Jewish blood diminishes. Almost insurmountable difficulties are encountered in preparing a more or less reliable statistic about the numbers and movements of Jewry in all eastern areas since the beginning of the Second World War, which brought uncontrollable masses of Jews into motion. -2- BALANCE OF JEWRY W o r l d. The total number of Jews on earth was estimated at 15 to 18 million in the last decade, occasionally also at far over 20 million. The Reich Statistics Bureau gave the number at 17 million in 1937. E u r o p e. Thereof about 10.3 million(60 per cent) were living in Europe around 1937 and 5.1 million (30 per cent) in America. Around 1880 the European portion had still been 88 per cent, the American only 3 per cent. In Europe the Jews concentrate mainly in the former Polish-Russian areas occupied by Germany between the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland and between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, further in the centers of commerce and the Rhine area of Central and Western Europe and on the coasts of the Mediterranean. G e r m a n y. The Jew balance of the Reich is linked to the differently large periods of time since the respective taking over of power [by the National-Socialist regime, translator’s note] in its partial regions. Only from these points in time onward a large-scale flowing away of Jews commences. Before there was even an increase of Jews in some regions as a consequence of the flowing away from regions becoming part of the Reich. At the time of the respective taking-over of power and on 31.12.1942, this was the number of Jews in Region; Time of Taking over of Power; Number of Jews before Taking over of Power; Number of Jews on 31.12.1942 Old Reich and Sudetenland; 30.1.1933 and 29.9.1938; 561,000 and 30,000; 51,327 Ostmark [Austria after annexation, translator’s note]; 13.3.1938; 220,000; 8,102 Bohemia and Moravia; 16.3.1939; 118,000; 15,550 Eastern Territories (with Bialystok); September 1939 (June 1940); 790,000; 233,210 General Government (with Lemberg); September 1939 (June 1940); 2,000,000; 297,914. Sum Total; - ; 3,719,000; 606,103 [Editor’s note: Table from Das Dritte Reich und die Juden, page 244.] -3- Regarding the numbers prior to the respective taking over of power it must be remarked that they partially overlap. Thus the bulk of the 30,000 Jews of the Sudetenland (27,000 confessional Jews) quickly left for the Protectorate prior to the unification with the Reich, without crossing a state border and without loss of patrimony, and is thus partially contained again in the figures for Bohemia and Moravia from 1939. On 17.5.1939 the Sudetenland had only 2,649 Jews. For the time shortly before the Second World War the number of Jews in the Reich area with Protectorate and General Government can be stated or estimated for a fixed point in time. Around 17.5.1939 it was as follows: Region; Number of Jews around 17.5.1939; Compare with Number of Jews on 31.12.1942 Old Reich and Sudetenland; 233,973 and 2,649; 51,327 Ostmark; 94,270; 8,102 Bohemia and Moravia; 110,000; 15,550 Eastern Territories about; 790,000; 233,210 General Government about; 2,000,000; 297,914 Sum Total; 3,120,892; 606,103 [Editors note: Table from Das Dritte Reich und die Juden, page 244.] The Old Reich and the Ostmark had until the war given away more than half of their – civilized and sterile – stock of Jews, mainly through emigration, while in the East the collapse of the fertile Jewish masses, who would have been dangerous for the future, mainly occurred only during the war and especially since the evacuation measures of 1942. Thus between 1933 and 1943, within the extended Reich area, i.e. in the chronological-geographical area of National Socialist government, Jewry has diminished by about 3.1 million heads. In the Old Reich the population sank to almost 1/12, in the Ostmark even to 1/27, in the General Government and in Bohemia and Moravia to about 1/7 and in the Eastern Territories to 1/3 to 1/4. -4- Emigration, Excess Mortality and Evacuation. This reduction is the result of the cumulated effect of emigration, excess mortality and evacuation, in addition to minor other changes (for instance allowed withdrawals, recognition as 1st degree half-breed, new recording, file cleanup), as shown in the following table: Region; Period from until 31.12.1942; Reduction (-)or increase of Jews through: Emigration; Excess Mortality; Evacuation; Other Changes; Total Old Reich (with Sudetenland); 30.1.33 (29.9.38); - 382,534; - 61,193; - 100,516; + 4,570; - 539,673 Ostmark; 15.3.38; - 149,124; - 14,509; - 47,555; - 710; - 211,898 Bohemia and Moravia; 16.3.39; - 25,699; - 7,074; - 69,677; -; - 102,450 Eastern Territories (with Bialystok); Sept. 39 (June 40); - 334,673 [only one figure for the sum of categories Emigration and Excess Mortality, translator’s note]; - 222,117; -; - 556,790 General Government (with Lemberg); Sept. 39 (June 40); - 427,920 [only one figure for the sum of categories Emigration and Excess Mortality, translator’s note]; 1,274,166; -; 1,702,086 Sum total; - ; - 1,402,726 [only one figure for the sum of categories Emigration and Excess Mortality, translator’s note]; - 1,714,031; + 3,860; - 3,112,897 [Editor’s note: Table from Das Dritte Reich und die Juden, page 245.] The balance for the Old Reich, Ostmark and Bohemia and Moravia together looks as follows: Initial stock of Jews At respective taking over of power: 929,000 Changes due to: Emigration - 557,357 Excess Mortality - 82,776 Evacuation - 217,748 New recording etc. + 3,860 - 854,021 Stock on 31.12.1942 74,979 Due to the abnormal over-aging and lack of vitality of Jewry, the extraordinary excess mortality of Jews for instance in the Old Reich is the result of both a low birth rate and a high mortality: in the 1st quarter of 1943 there were 22 births and 1,113 deaths. The numbers about emigration and excess mortality (effects of war!) in the Eastern Territories and the General Government cannot be checked. They are the calculated -5- result of initial stock minus end stock minus evacuations of Jews. Between 1.1.1943 and 31.3.1943 another 113,015 Jews from the Reich area with Bohemia and Moravia, the new Eastern territories and the Bialystok district were evacuated to the East, while the domiciles of 8,025 Jews were transferred to the Theresienstadt old age ghetto. The number of Jews in Germany, especially in the Eastern territories, was again strongly reduced hereby. Mixed Marriages. The number of Jews in the Reich area as of 31 December 1932 [read 1942, translator’s note] contains a considerable number of Jews in mixed marriages: Region; Jews on 31.12.1942; Thereof in Mixed Marriages; Rest Old Reich; 51,327; 16,760; 34,567 Ostmark; 8,102; 4,803; 3,299 Bohemia and Moravia; 15,550; 6,211; 9,339 Sum Total; 74,979; 27,774; 47,205 [Editors note: Table from Das Dritte Reich und die Juden, page 246.] The number of Jews in the Old Reich has in the meantime further diminished from 51,327 on 31.12.1942 to 31,910 on 1.4.1943 . From these 31,910 Jews more than half, i.e. 16,668, are living in mixed marriages, thereof 12,117 in privileged mixed marriages and 4,551 in non-privileged mixed marriages. Furthermore it is likely that a greater number of Jews have been counted in the list who in the end will have to be written off as untraceable, as happens again and again with each inhabitants register. The stock of Jews in the old Reich area (without Eastern Territories) is approaching its end. Labor Service. Of the Jews living in the area of the Reich 21,659 are in labor service essential to the war effort at the beginning of 1943. In addition there are 18,435 Soviet Russian Jews working for the war effort in the Inspectorate Königsberg, 50,570 stateless and foreign Jews in Camp Servce Schmelt (Breslau) and 95,112 formerly Polish Jews in ghetto and camp service in the Posen Inspectorate. -6- Concentration Camps. In concentration camps there are a total of 9,127 Jews as of 31.12.1942, in prisons there are 458. The Jewish inmate population of the concentration camps was the following: Mauthausen/Gusen 79 Lublin 7 324 Sachsenhausen 46 Auschwitz 1 412 Stutthof 18 Buchenwald 227 Ravensbrck 3. Old Age Ghetto. In the only old age ghetto Theresienstadt there were a total of 49,392 Jews at the beginning of 1943; these have been deducted from the stock figures. Evacuation from other European Countries. In the German area of power and influence outside the Reich borders the following evacuations took place: Country; Until 31.12.1942; In the 1st Quarter of 1943 France (insofar as occupied before 10.11.1942); 41,911; 7,995 Netherlands; 38,571; 13,832 Belgium; 16,886; 1,616 Norway; 532; 158 Greece; -; 13,435 Slovakia; 56,691; 854 Croatia; 4,927; -; Bulgaria; -; 11,364 Furthermore in the Russian areas including the former Baltic Countries since the beginning of the Eastern Campaign; 633,300; - Sum Total; 792,818; 49,254 [Editor’s note: Table from Das Dritte Reich und die Juden, page 247.] E u r o p e a n J e w i s h B a l a n c e. The reduction of Jewry in Europe should therefore be already about 4 million heads. Higher stocks of Jews on the European continent (besides Russia with about 4 million) are now only to be found in Hungary (750,000) and Rumania (302,000), maybe also France. If besides the above-mentioned reduction one takes into consideration Jewish emigration and Jewish excess mortality -7- in the states of central and western Europe other than Germany, but also the inevitable double-counting due to Jewish fluctuation, the reduction of Jewry in Europe from 1937 to the beginning of 1943 should be estimated at 4 ½ million. Of the deaths of Soviet Russian Jews in the occupied eastern territories only a part could be recorded, whereas deaths in the rest of European Russia and at the front are not included at all. In addition there are the movements of Jews inside Russia to the Asian part thereof. The movements of Jews from the European countries outside the German area of influence to overseas are a largely unknown order of magnitude. In total it is likely that since 1933, i.e. in the first decade of National Socialist power, European Jewry lost almost half of its stock. Thereof again only half, i.e. a quarter of the European total stock in 1937, is likely to have gone to the other continents. Custom Signature *Quote:* Denial of generally known historical facts should not be punishable. For those who maintain, for instance, that Germany did not take part in World War I or that Adenauer fought at Issus in 333, their own stupidity is punishment enough. The same should apply to the denial of the horrors and crimes of the recent German past. ~ A German jurist by the name of Baumann in the German juridical magazine NJW, quoted in: Bailer-Galanda/Benz/Neugebauer (ed.), Die Auschwitzleugner, Berlin 1996, page 261 (my translation).
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Posts: 264 Mar 28 12 10:11 AM	My translation of the document transcribed under http://www.ns-archiv.de/verfolgung/korherr/anweisung-himmler.php Quote: The Reichsführer-SS Personal Staff Diary Nr. -V. Field Command Post 10.4.1943 [Stamp: Secret Reich Matter] 2 Copies 2nd Copy To the Inspector for Statistics, Party Comrade Korherr B e r l i n The Reichsführer SS has received your statistical report about “The Final Solution of the European Jewish Question”. He wishes that in no place a “special treatment of the Jews” is referred to. On page 9, item 4, the wording must be the following: " Transportation of Jews from the eastern provinces to the Russian East: ............................ The following numbers were sifted through the camps in the General Government ............. through the camps in the Warthegau....." Another wording may not be used. I send back the copy of the report already initialed by the Reichsführer SS with the request to change this page 9 accordingly and to send it back. SS-Obersturmbannführer Custom Signature *Quote:* Denial of generally known historical facts should not be punishable. For those who maintain, for instance, that Germany did not take part in World War I or that Adenauer fought at Issus in 333, their own stupidity is punishment enough. The same should apply to the denial of the horrors and crimes of the recent German past. ~ A German jurist by the name of Baumann in the German juridical magazine NJW, quoted in: Bailer-Galanda/Benz/Neugebauer (ed.), Die Auschwitzleugner, Berlin 1996, page 261 (my translation).
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Posts: 264 Mar 28 12 10:12 AM	My translation of the document transcribed under http://www.ns-archiv.de/verfolgung/korherr/korherr-begleitschreiben.php Quote: The Inspector for Statistics Diary Nr. 48/43 secret Reich matter Berlin W 35, 19.4.1943 Potsdamer Straße 61 [Stamp: Secret Reich Matter] SS-Obersturmbannfhrer Dr. B r a n d t Personal Staff Reichsfhrer-SS B e r l i n Dear Party Comrade B r a n d t ! My recent report about the final solution of the Jewish question, with a volume of 16 pages, had been prepared by me for reporting to the RF, as verbally ordered to me by the RF. According to the Reichsführer’s new order of 1.4.1943 to the Head of Security Police and SD for preparing a shortened report to be presented to the Führer with an unequivocal balance, I some days ago sent to the Reich Security Main Office the 6 ½ pages report of which a copy is attached, for integration in his overall report. In this respect, should the RF not be completely in agreement, I may point out the following: An unequivocal balance for a fixed point in time and for the whole present-day Reich cannot be made, despite all the sweat. Therefore I provided, besides an overall balance, several partial balances with different starting points in time. The available initial and final numbers sometimes differ by hundreds of thousands of Jews. Also, the existing documentation does not allow for, as would be desirable, dividing into Jews in labor use, in concentration camps, in the old age ghetto and in privileged mixed marriage in such a way that the remainder is immediately available for evacuation. Both in what concerns labor use and the concentration camps the documentation so far allows for no reliable conclusions about the area the Jews belong to (apart from the nationality). Therefore I had to avoid an unequivocal balance here, but on the whole the numbers provide a useful indication. 1 attachment, secret Reich matter H e i l H i t l e r Custom Signature *Quote:* Denial of generally known historical facts should not be punishable. For those who maintain, for instance, that Germany did not take part in World War I or that Adenauer fought at Issus in 333, their own stupidity is punishment enough. The same should apply to the denial of the horrors and crimes of the recent German past. ~ A German jurist by the name of Baumann in the German juridical magazine NJW, quoted in: Bailer-Galanda/Benz/Neugebauer (ed.), Die Auschwitzleugner, Berlin 1996, page 261 (my translation).
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