Statistical Report on the "Final Solution," known as the Korherr Report (March 23, 1943)

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2. Balance Sheet for the Jews in the Ostmark [Austria after 1938]

Number of Jews in the Ostmark on March 1, 1938	about 220,000
Attrition between March 1, 1938, and January 1, 1943, from
Excess deaths	- 14,509
Excess emigration	- 149,124
Departure (evacuation)	- 47,555
other changes	- 710
	- 211,898

Number of Jews in the Ostmark on January 1, 1943

8,102

3. Balance Sheet for the Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia

Number of Jews in the Protectorate on March 15, 1939	118,310
Attrition between March 15, 1939, and January 1, 1943, from
Excess deaths	- 7,074
Excess emigration	- 26,009
Departure (evacuation)	- 69,677
	- 102,760

Number of Jews in the Protectorate on January 1, 1943

15,550

The balance sheet does not include the newly acquired eastern territories (with the exception of Danzig). Their final numbers cannot be established yet. There are, however, various estimates regarding the Jews in these areas at the time of their incorporation into the Reich, and they are likely to lead to a number of about 630,000, to which we must add about 160,000 Jews in the district of Bialystok and about 1.3 million Jews in the General Government at the time of its establishment.* All together, that would produce in the entire German area (excluding the occupied eastern areas) at the end of 1939 a total number of about 2.5 million** Jews, the vast majority of whom are found in the new East.

On January 1, 1943, the Reich – excluding the eastern territories, excluding the old-age ghetto Theresienstadt, and excluding work deployment within the framework of the Organization Schmelt – was down to only 74,979, 51,327 of whom were in the Altreich, 8,102 in the Ostmark, and 15,550 in the Protectorate. In the Altreich, including the Sudetenland, only 9.2 percent of the Jews who were there for the seizure of power still remain. On January 30, 1943, their number was only 48,242, or 8.6 percent; on February 28, 1943, it was down to 44,589, or 7.9 percent. Berlin, home to one-eighth of the Jews in Germany in 1880, more than one-quarter in 1910, and nearly a third in 1933, had no fewer than 32,999, or 64.3 percent, of the entire Jewish population of the Altreich on January 1, 1943; on January 30, 1943, it still had 30,121; on February 28, 1943, still 27,281. In the Ostmark, only Vienna still has any Jews.

Of the 51,327 Jews of the Altreich, 23,197 are men and 28,130 women. 40,351 are religious Jews; 10,976 are non-religious Jews. 16,760 live in mixed marriages, in the Ostmark 4,803 (of 8,102), in the Protectorate 6,211 (of 15,550).


* Excluding Lemberg District with around 700,000 Jews.
** Excluding Lemberg District with around 700,000 Jews.