Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
I'll give you the courtesy you rarely give others and answer your question. No, I'm not disputing the figures in the link, I'm questioning your misinterpretation.

"Before 1939" means by the time 1939 had begun. When your mum told you to be home before 7, did she mean 7.30? The difference between 1939 (or before Sep 1939) and 1940 is huge, you know this.

Looking at the site we are all using, they say 282k German Jews by Sep 1939 (a sensible cut off time for obvious reasons), which is almost 100k below the number you're using.

Why is it significant? Well, that extra 100k were hardly being safely sent to the UK, like a good number of pre-war emigrants, were they?

Interestingly, the site also says "By October 1941, when Jewish emigration was officially forbidden, the number of Jews in Germany had declined to 163,000." The exact same figure you were using as your 1940 figure - Jan 1st 1940, eh?

Now, how about the 200k Austrian Jews? Where was that number from?


Just to remind you of your quote:

"That's the same site which confirms that 70%+ of all German Jews had emigrated from Germany legally before 1939. In addition to the 200,000 which had left Austria. "
Are you denying that 163,000 people were left? No.

Are you denying that the population was officially 523,000? No.

That's 363,000 people that legally emigrated from Nazi Germany.

Separately some 10,000 children left Germany via the Kindertransport.

That's a total of 373,000 people that left legally, the balance was 163,000 people who were left as of 1941.

The percentage who left legally is still the same.

Approximately 16,300 of those left, 1% of the population, would die from natural causes per annum in line with the same percentages across Europe at that time.

What's not revealed or discussed in the article is the number of people who left Germany illegally during the period.