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The total Jewish population of the world was
estimated at 17 million in 1937. Of these, over 10 million were in
Europe. They are or were concentrated in Europe mainly in the
German-occupied formerly Russian and Polish territories between the Baltic Sea
and the Gulf of Finland and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, also in the
trading centers of Middle and Western Europe, in the Rhine and along the
Mediterranean coast.
Between 1937 and the beginning of 1943 the Jewish
population of Europe should have decreased by an estimated 4 million, partly
due to excess mortality of the Jews in Middle and Western Europe and partly due
to the evacuations, mainly in the Eastern territories, which are counted as a
decrease here. Moreover , it was not possible to count all of the deaths of the
Soviet Russian Jews in the occupied Eastern Territories while those in the
remaining European part of Russia and on the front have not been included at
all. In addition to this there are the masses of Jews who have fled from
European Russia to Asian Russia and the emigration of Jews abroad from the
European countries outside German influence is a largely unknown quantity.
Altogether European Jewry must have decreased by almost 1/2 since 1933 that
ist [sic] to say, during the first decade of the development of power of
National Socialism.
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