Language:
German
Year of publication:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
64,12 (2016) 1045-1058
Keywords:
Bundesarchiv (Germany)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews History 1933-1945
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Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
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Jewish refugees
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Jews Statistics
Abstract:
Discusses the fate of the Jews in Germany in 1933-45 in the light of data presented in a Gedenkbuch, or memorial project, compiled by the German Federal Archives from the 1960s, and available since 2007 online. In 2002, data regarding foreign Jews residing in 1933-45 in Germany (defined according to its 1937 borders) were included in the project. The Gedenkbuch assesses the number of German Jews who fell victim to the Holocaust as ca. 175,000. Most of them were killed in extermination camps in the east; 131,000 were deported directly from Germany, and 21,000 from neighboring European countries. Some died due to Nazi persecution in the countries they had fled to. About 4,300 Jews died in German prisons, a somewhat higher number ended their own lives, and ca. 1,600 Jews fell victim to the Nazi euthanasia program. The Gedenkbuch estimates the total number of Jews residing in Germany during the Nazi era to have been 650,000-700,000. Based on this, the number of Jewish victims was ca. 25%, a relatively low percentage compared to other European countries. Argues that this was due to the fact that the Jews in Germany, the first to be targeted by Nazi antisemitism, were also the first to flee. The number of Jews remaining in Germany at the end of the war, in camps or at liberty, was 96,000. The Gedenkbuch includes information on individual Jews, but the list of residents is still incomplete. The names of the German Jews who were killed are mostly known, but the names of ca. 5,000 of the 15,000 Polish Jews who were expelled from Germany in October 1938 are still missing.
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