Language:
German
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Geschichte und Gesellschaft; Zeitschrift für historische Sozialwissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
32,1 (2006) 93-118
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Population
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Statistics
Abstract:
Examines the role of the Austrian Statistical Office in providing the basis for lists of Jews for deportation. In the census of May 1939, a supplementary form required the respondent to report on any Jewish grandparents. However, these data were processed and made available to the Gestapo only at the end of 1941, when deportations were already underway and the information in any case was out of date. Instead, Eichmann's office used registers prepared in September-October 1939: of "Glaubensjuden" (members of the Jewish community) prepared by the community (presumably on Eichmann's orders), and of "non-Mosaic Jews" prepared by the "Gildemeesteraktion". These were supplemented by the register of Jews and "non-Aryans" receiving ration cards. The census data would have played no more than a secondary role, in particular cases. But argues that the census staff must have been aware that their work could mean the death of the "non-Aryan" respondents.
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