II. BALANCE SHEET FOR THE JEWS IN GERMANY The following particulars about the number and development of the Jews in Germany are based on official census data and other Reich statistics, and on scientific calculations and estimates, though for the most part they were generated by the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany and by the religious communities in Vienna and Prague, who worked with censuses, counting-cards for population movement, extrapolation, and calculations and estimates. These Jewish offices work under the supervision of the Reich Security Main Office and for its purposes. Apart from the dubious data on the initial number of Jews, it would appear that the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany does reliable work. Based on the statistics produced by this office and checked by the Reich Security Main Office so far, the following conclusions can be drawn about the development of Jewry in Germany between the Machtergreifung [seizure of power] (January 30, 1933) and January 1, 1943, in the Altreich [Old Reich]; between March 1938 and January 1, 1943, in Austria; and between March 1939 and January 1, 1943, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia:
1. Balance Sheet for the Jews in the Altreich with Sudeten Gau and Danzig
Number of Jews in the Altreich (excluding Sudeten Gau and Danzig) on January 30, 1933: about 561,000 Attrition between January 30, 1933, to January 1, 1943, from
Excess deaths (in the Altreich) | - 61,193 | Excess emigration
| - 352,534 | Departure (evacuation) | - 100,516 | | - 514,243 |
Increase between January 30, 1933, and January 1, 1943, from Incorporation of the Sudetenland | + 2,649* | other changes (Danzig, immigration,emigration, authorized departures from the community, recognition as Mischling of the 1st degree, new recording, updating of the files) | + 1,921 | | + 4,570 |
Number of Jews in the Altreich (including Sudeten Gau and Danzig) on January 1, 1943 | 51,327 |
* This number of 2,649 Jews in the Sudetenland was determined in the census of 1939. Before the incorporation of the Sudetenland into the Reich, the number of Jews was about 3[illegible], though they quickly moved into the Protectorate without crossing a state border and without losing any property.
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