The fact that the average age of German Jews today is 62 and that very few young men and women survive there was advanced today as the principal reason for the small percentage of German Jews who told the Anglo-American inquiry committee that they wanted to go to Palestine.
Dr. Philip Auerbach, chairman of the Jewish communities of the Rhineland and Westphalia, at a press conference here arranged by the World Jewish Congress, pointed but that such a community “obviously” could not emigrate. He also noted that many of the Jews had intermarried and were loth to leave their families.
Speaking of the British civil administration in Germany, Dr. Auerbach declared that generally there was no anti-Semitism prevalent among British officials, although there had been several individual instances where civilian administrators had exhibited anti-Jewish bias.
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