Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Population and Development Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,3 (1998) 511-552
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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National socialism
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
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Jews Population
;
Jews History 1939-1945
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Statistics
Abstract:
Examines the role of population statistics in the Holocaust and at the Nuremberg Trials, based on a study of national data systems and of the activities of several statisticians and demographers. Points out that although population registers are useful to governments, they can also be used as an "operational tool of genocide". The murder of the Jews was an administrative process, involving planning, organization, and coordination, all of which made use of statistical systems. Examines the statistical processes in five countries - Germany, Poland, France, the Netherlands, and Norway - where Jewish population registers were ordered by the Nazis in order to facilitate the roundup and deportation of Jews. Discusses the activities of SS statistician Richard Korherr during the war, and the use of population data in the prosecution of war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials.
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