In a detailed statistical breakdown published by the local Statistical Office, the “loss of human life in the Frankfurt population during World War II” is given as 23,000, including 10,480 killed in battle, 678 who died in PW,. camps and 4,822 civilian victims of air raids.
Nowhere in the six-page monograph is any mention made of the more than 6,000 Jewish citizens of Frankfurt who were killed in concentration and extermination camps during the same period under review.
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