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First Racial Census Puts Reich Jews at 0.42% of Population

May 2, 1940
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Results of the first Nazi census taken on the basis of the Nuremberg Laws, applying the racial instead of religious principle, reached Paris today after having been made public in Berlin by the German official statistical office.

The census, taken in 1939, reveals that the ratio of the Jewish to the general population has been reduced from one per cent in pre-Hitler Germany to 0.42 per cent.

This percentage includes, it must be emphasized, all half and quarter Jews who, in pre-Nazi days, were not counted as Jews in the official census since they were not members of the Jewish religious community. The total includes, also, the Jews of Austria and the Sudetenland, but not of the Bohemia-Moravia protectorate or Memel.

As of last May, this total was 330,892. In addition, 72,738 persons were listed as “first degree” descendants of mixed marriages, and another 42,811 as “second degree” descendants of such marriages.

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