Statistical Report on the "Final Solution," known as the Korherr Report (March 23, 1943)

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IX. THE WORK DEPLOYMENT OF THE JEWS

At the beginning of 1943, 185,776 Jews were active in war-essential work deployment in the Reich territory. Of those:

1) 21,659 were deployed within the inspectoral districts of the Security Police and the SD (excluding Posen and excluding Soviet Russian Jews); of those, 18,546 had German citizenship, 107 had Protectorate membership, 2,519 were stateless, and 487 were foreigners. They were distributed as follows according to inspectoral districts (excluding Posen):

Berlin	15 100		Königsberg*	96
Braunschweig	110		Munich	313
Breslau**	2 451		Nuremberg	89
Danzig	-		Salzburg	7
Dresden	485		Stettin	18
Düsseldorf	673		Stuttgart	178
Hamburg	497		Vienna	1 226
Kassel	259		Wiesbaden	139

* excluding Soviet Russian Jews
**excluding Organization Schmelt
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2) in the inspectoral district Königsberg also 18,435 foreign, that is, almost exclusively Soviet Russian, Jews.

3) in the inspectoral district Posen in ghetto and camp deployment, 95,112 mainly Polish Jews.

4) in the framework of the Organization Schmelt (Breslau) 50,570 Jews, of these 42,382 stateless and 8,188 foreigners.


X. BALANCE SHEET FOR THE JEWS IN EUROPE

The collapse of European Jewry was set in motion decades ago by the völkisch decline of European big-city Jewry, on the one hand, and by Jewish emigration, on the other. In 1927, the Jewish statistician Lestschinsky illustrated the decline of the Jews in Europe as follows: “At the beginning of the 19th century, 85% of all Jews lived in Europe, with Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Germany alone accounting for 80% of all Jews; at that time, America only had 2-3,000 Jews. In 1925, 63% of all Jews lived in Europe; only 57% of all Jews still lived within the borders of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, which America was home to 30%, the other parts of the world 7%.” According to calculations by the Reich Office of Statistics, the share of Europe’s Jews in 1880 was even 88.4%, and in 1937 only 60.4%. It is likely that in 1943 the European share will only be 1/3 of world Jewry.