There are 150,000 fewer Jews in Germany today than there were when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, the C.-V. Zeitung, organ of the Central Union of Jews in Germany, reported today.
The paper estimates the present Jewish population at 400,000 against 550,000 prior to the advent of the Nazi regime.
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