A protest to the West German Government against the glossing over by a government office of statistics on the number of German Jews murdered by the Nazi regime was voiced here today by the Coordinating Committee of Nazi Victims Organizations.
The protest, addressed to the Ministry of the Interior, asserted that a statistical survey by the Federal Statistical Office on the losses of human life during the Second World war was misleading. That office, said the coordinating committee, publicized first in its own scientific periodical and thereafter in the Federal Government’s official Bulletin a statement that: about 200,000 Jews emigrated or parished due to the criminal acts of National Socialism” in the period following the start of the war.
The Coordinating committee said that the statisticians unquestionably knew that from 1939 on the number of German Jews able to emigrate was negligible and that the number who died an unnatural death or were killed in the Nazi extermination camps was about 180,000.
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