Archie wrote: ↑Tue May 13, 2025 1:05 am
Nessie wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 6:35 am
Archie wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 4:57 pm
Can you quote the part in the Wannsee minutes that indicates a "huge drop" in Jewish population?
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org ... nutes.html
The stated aim of the Final Solution;
"a) the expulsion of the Jews from every sphere of life of the German people,
b) the expulsion of the Jews from the living space of the German people."
That clearly means there will be a huge drop in the Jewish population, as the aim is to have no Jews living anywhere occupied by Germans. The minutes then records that;
"537,000 Jews were sent out of the country between the takeover of power and the deadline of 31 October 1941."
That is pretty much the entire Jewish population of the greater Reich. After the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, many were being sent east, to ghettos in the Baltic States. It is not to stop there;
"Approximately 11 million Jews will be involved in the final solution of the European Jewish question"
There is then a list of countries and their Jewish populations. Estonia is already recorded as "Jew free". Latvia has 3,500, but its Jewish population when the Nazis invaded in 1941 was c75,000. Lithuania's 1941 population was c250,000, but the minutes record it as 34,000. Those huge drops were due to the activity of the Einsaztgruppen and it was in 1941, in the Baltic States, that the Holocaust mass murders began. The Netherlands is recorded as having 160,800 Jews, which was because deportations had yet to begin.
1) The Jewish population decrease in the Reich was due to emigration, not mass executions.
Please evidence that. For example, where were the German Jews sent to the Riga ghetto in 1942, living in 1943 after the ghetto was closed down?
2) The figures in the Wannsee minutes of 11.2 million are very high. These are over 1M higher than Korherr's prewar figures and over 1.5M more than Hilberg's prewar figures. If the German statistics on Jews are as reliable as you say, why don't the numbers between German sources agree? And how is a population of 11.2M a "huge drop"? Keep in mind that the Einsatzgruppen had supposedly executed about 1M Jews by this point (early 1942).
Korherr referred to the Jewish population in 1937 and Wannsee to how many Jews it believed would be involved in the Final Solution during the 1940s. I would not expect any population reports that do not gather their data from the same sources in the same way, to produce the same figure, especially when estimating how many were in countries not occupied or aligned to them.
I have given you examples of huge drops in the populations of three countries occupied by the Nazis, and one where there had yet to be a drop, as recorded in the Wannsee Minutes and explained why that was. You also know, it is because the mass murders began in the east.