A total of 8,500 of the 30,491 Jews living in this south-German Province of Baden- Wurttemberg, at the time of Hitler’s ascent to power, were exterminated by the Nazis, figures compiled here by the Evangelical Aid Society revealed today.
About 21,500 of the Baden-Wurttemberg Jews succeeded in escaping from Hitlerite Germany, the survey showed. After the collapse of the Nazi regime, in 1945, 701 Jews returned to the province from concentration camps.
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