CONTINUING ECONOMIC STRANGULATION AND EMIGRATION MAY ULTIMATELY LEAVE NO JEWS IN GERMANY, DECLARES THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS IN A PAMPHLET ENTITLED, “THE ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN JEWRY BY THE NAZI REGIME,” PREPARED BY THE CONGRESS’ ECONOMIC BUREAU.
THE PAMPHLET, REPRESENTING A STUDY OF LAWS AND ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES DIRECTED AGAINST THE JEWS FROM 1933 TO 1937, PREDICTS THAT SHOULD EMIGRATION CONTINUE TO AVERAGE 15,000 ANNUALLY, BY 1940 THE GERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY WOULD CONSIST OF OLD PEOPLE, NO LESS THAN 65 PER CENT BEING OVER THE AGE OF 45.
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