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

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Around 1930 and in the last few years, the number of Jews in some of the more important states in Europe was as follows:

Recent count or estimate

State	Census year	Number of Jews	Year	Number of Jews in 1000	Percentage of the population of the host Volk
Altreich	1933/35	502,799	1943	51	0.07
Austria	1934	191,481	1943	8	0.1
Czechoslovakia	1930	356,830	-	-	-
- Protectorate	-	-	1943	16	0.2
Danzig	1929	10,448	-	-	-
Memel region	1925	2,402	1937	3	2.0
Belgium	-	-	1937	80	1.0
Bulgaria	1934	48,398	1937	50	0.8
Finland	-	-	1937	2	0.04
France	-	-	1937	280	0.7
Greece	1928	72,791	1937	90	1.1
Great Britain	1931/33	234,000	1937	345	0.7
Italy	1930	47,825	1937	52	0.1
Ireland	-	-	1936	4	0.1
Yugoslavia	1930	68,405	1937	75	0.3
Latvia	1935	93,479	1937	96	4.9
Lithuania	1923	155,125	1937	175	7.4
Netherlands	1930	111,917	1937	135	1.6
Poland	1930	3,113,933	1937	3,300	9.6
Rumania	1930	984,213	1941	302*	2.2
Slovakia	-	-	1940	89	3.4
Soviet Russia	1926	2,570,330	1939	4,600**	2.4
Hungary	1930	444,567	1940	750***	5.8

* New territory
** New territory, including East Poland; the number is an estimate.
*** New territory; the number is calculated.
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The total number of Jews in the world was estimated in 1937 in general at around 17 million, of which more than 10 million are found in Europe. They are or were concentrated in Europe especially in the former Polish-Russian territories occupied by Germany between the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, as well as in the trading centers and in the Rhine region of central and western Europe and along the coasts of the Mediterranean.

Between 1937 and the beginning of 1943, the number of Jews in Europe is likely to have declined by an estimated 4 million, in part through emigration, in part through excess mortality of the Jews in central and western Europe, in part through the evacuations especially in the völkisch stronger eastern territories, which are calculated here as departure. One must not overlook that only a part of the deaths of Soviet Russian Jews in the occupied eastern territories are recorded here, while those in the rest of European Russia and on the front are not included at all. To this must be added migration streams (unknown to us) of the Jews within Russia into the Asiatic region. The stream of emigration of the Jews out of the European countries outside of German influence is also a largely unknown quantity. All in all, it is likely that since 1933, that is to say, in the first decade of the National Socialist German Machtergreifung, European Jewry is likely to have lost close to half of its numbers.



Source of original German text: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, Record Group 238, Entry 174, Box 90, NO-5194; reprinted in John Mendelsohn, ed., The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes. Vol. 12, New York: Garland, 1982, pp. 224-40.

Translation: Thomas Dunlap