No more than sixteen Jewish students are now attending universities in all Germany, it was disclosed today in a report of the Ministry of Education containing data on the number of students in German institutions of higher education.
The report states that the number of Jewish students in Germany has dwindled from 4,382 in 1932, before Hitler came to power, to 812 in 1934. Of the 812, only 16 have actually continued to attend their classes.
Comparing the number of Jewish students with those of other religions, the report emphasizes that if all the 812 Jewish students were attending they would consist less than one per cent of the 102,007 students who are registered throughout the entire coun-
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